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Have you ever thought about why a person does what they do or why they act the way they do? Nature vs nurture is an old debate that determines which has the bigger influence on a person’s personality, either genetics or society. Nature comes from it’s genetics, it makes up your physical features. Nurture, on the other hand, is based on how a child can be raised, also it’s a big part of your personality. But it’s pretty obvious that Nurture takes more part in a child's body, and how their…

Nature or Nurture: What Determines the Creature’s Behavior The argument between nature and nurture has been a huge debate over the centuries. People debate whether a person’s character is the result of nature or nurture. Nature includes characteristics that a person is born with, while nurturing is how a person is raised. In the novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley makes an impression that evidently supports the fact that one’s surroundings and experiences help shape a person’s character.…

As time passes, knowledge becomes more complex and philosophers start to develop different theories regarding how people come about this knowledge. There is a distinct difference between both Rationalism and Empiricism and both Descartes and Locke have found ways to discredit and support both views. Descartes argument towards Rationalism is much stronger than Hume's argument towards Empiricism. There is quite the distinction between both empiricism and rationalism. The major difference…

My quote that I chose is from the book to Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and it is,“One thing that does not abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.” When reading To Kill a Mockingbird, it is evident that opinions and the terms in which people view things and the way they come to these conclusions is an important aspect in the unfolding of the story. My largest philosophical question emerged, in reference to the quote, about the idea of the human “conscience” and the way it is not…

Nature ,the ability to learn from hereditary. Nurture, the ability to learn from the environment. These two ways of Learning have been in debate for hundreds of years. The question is, are we products of nature or nurture. Do we as humans learn from being taught or do we learn from what we inherited ? This question can be answered in many ways starting with how this argument began. In the article "The nature versus nurture debate or controversy" , it spoke of a French philosopher named…

In Michael Shermer’s book The Moral Arc: How Science Makes Us better people, one of the first topics that is introduced to the reader is the one of the oldest arguments in history, Nature vs Nurture. In his book, Shermer proposes the theory that we are all born into this world with some sort of moral compass. Therefore, we all have basic knowledge of what is right and what is wrong. However, the degree to how wrong or right someone views something to be can be shaped by how they are nurtured.…

The nurture vs. nature debate is debated by many psychologist and sociologist. The nurture side of the debate is that a person’s traits are formed by the way one is raised. The nature aspect of the debate is that a person is born with and biologically given the traits that determine one’s perspective and personality. The authors of Psychology states that “Research reveals that nature and nurture together shape our development-every step of the way” (Myers 133). In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein,…

6) In what way(s) does your theory deal with motivational issues? Motivation is not a main point in this theory but it is believed that future goals are the motivator for our current behavior. The original person to bring this up was Adler he called it a teleological position. This is seen as a motivator in so many areas in the lives of people. If a 20 year old wants to become a professor at the age of thirty this will motivate so many choices that they may not have choose without that goal. The…

Epistemology, the question of “how do we know what we know?” that has plagued philosophers since Socrates himself. The problem at hand seems to be that we can not be certain of where our knowledge originates. Over the centuries of human thought, many have tried to tackle such a question. To this day, however, there is no sufficient answer at all. The two major schools of thought I am looking at are empiricism and rationalism, both attempts to answer such a complex question that couldn’t quite…

Ahh, the age old question…nature vs nurture? This argument, as you might know, debates wether or not human development is based mainly on their environment or their DNA composition. In literature, there are writers called Naturalists. These Naturalist writers focus on the nature side of the debate. They take more of a “what if” standpoint than a standpoint of argument. Only taking one side in this debate, is more of an observation tactic. Naturalism is the scientific method of literature. The…