Tabula rasa

should lead with sympathy. Instead of placing the highest value on the afterlife, people began to value social interactions and good deeds. The Age of Reason transformed the Puritan beliefs of original sin and predestination into the idea of the tabula rasa, or blank wax tablet. John Locke explains, “we are not born with a set of innate ideas of good or evil and the mind is rather like a blank wax tablet.” Therefore, instead of followers pushing the ideas of predestination, Christians believed…

The Enlightenment was a movement that started in the 18th century that introduced the use of reason. This use of reason was similarly used in the scientific revolution that had begun in the early renaissance but was now being used in philosophy. The big Enlightenment philosophers were Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Locke and Voltaire. Jean Jacques Rousseau wrote a book titled “The Social Contract” and the ‘Social Contact’ is a political theory that an individual relinquishes some of their rights to…

Innate knowledge claims that all human beings are born with knowledge and truths, in comparison to gaining knowledge empirically through the senses. Philosophers who hold the view that we acquire knowledge independently from sense experience are known as rationalists. Whereas Philosophers, such as Locke, who believe we obtain knowledge through our senses are known as empiricists. I shall be critically analysing arguments for innate knowledge from rationalists and comparing those to arguments…

When you think about nurture you think about how the child was raised and how their parents treated them as they grew up. A major figure during the enlightenment agreed with this very strongly and called it “tabula rasa”, which means blank slate. What he was basically saying was that when everyone is born, they are born with a clean slate and the parents and everyone else puts into their minds anything and the child acts like what he is around. Other characteristics…

will not work, for she indirectly suggests that she can’t love him because he does not wash his feet. 4. Nanny reproached Janie for kissing Johnny Taylor, but she approved her marriage to Logan Killicks. 5. Nanny ran away with Leafy to regain a tabula rasa, for she needed a clean slate after being impregnated by her white master. 6. Janie was incredulous when she heard that she would get married at the age of sixteen; she did not believe that she would…

human being, it is not primarily concerned with internal links like thoughts, emotions etc. One’s feeling and emotions and all other internal links should be explained through behavioural terms. In a behaviourists eyes when one is born they are a ‘tabula rasa’, and one’s environment has an effect on a person’s free will which contributes to someone’s behaviour. The behaviour of a human being can be altered by one’s environment and this is where classical and operant conditioning are involved in…

people who are more likely to commit crimes. A disclaimer of the study suggests, “May be key aspects of offending personality.” Depending upon the criminal act, unique personality traits are applicable, but for individuals with a blank slate – tabula rasa, this models perception is deficient in absolutes. The methodology used was based on male offenders with numerous convictions for crimes such as murder, violence, or sexual assault along with other offenses pertaining to drug and quality of…

most closely to my philosophy of life is a combination of Hobbes, Locke, Smith, and Kant. Thomas Hobbes is the most pessimistic out of all of the thinkers and believed humanity to be selfish at its core. John Locke found humans are born with a ‘tabula rasa’ or a blank slate. He additionally believed that it is through experience that men learn virtues such as goodness and morality. Adam Smith explained that society only works through the function of greed. Greed is then an excellent aspect to…

Treatises of Government", which contained many controversial theories that are similar to what we know today. He believed that no person was born bad, but rather as a blank slate to be molded and shaped by their own life experiences, also known as Tabula Rasa. Locke also thought that everyone was born with the natural right to life, liberty, and property. Sound familiar? This idea later influenced the structure of the government we know in…

The opposing views of “nature versus nurture” have evoked an abundance of disagreements ever since the early years. Both sides of the debate theorize that every individual has different personalities. The “nature” aspect argues that our genes influence our character, while the “nurture” aspect argues that our environments influence our character. This controversial issue in psychology has convincing ideas from both perspectives, which is why it is still a widely talked issue by social scientists…