What is the difference between proximate and ultimate causes? Explain the main point of blank slate theories.
For him, this means that the mind and body are totally different.ġ1. He believed that the mind and the body were separate because the body was divisible but the mind was indivisible. Thought that humans in their natural state were peaceful and that it is civilization that made people violent and aggressive "nothing can be more gentle than man in his primitive state" Hobbes - believed that people could escape their hellish existence only by surrendering their autonomy to a higher power (which he called leviathan) Descartes - "the ghost in the machine" but did not actually give it this name. Rousseau - proponent of the noble savage. This was said to have formed the basis of liberal democracy, as opposed to the dogmatic rule of churches and kings at the time. His theory was empiricism and wanted to know about psychology (how the mind works) and epistemology (how people come to know the truth). Locke - the Blank Slate was attributed to one of his ideas, however, his idea was actually using the metaphor of a white paper being painted on by experience.
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