... as well. Plato believed that ownership of private property could constrict man's reasoning abilities and thus restricted the Guardian classes from ownership. Aristotle on the other hand, approved of it but stated that any class who had too much of it and was extremely wealthy, could ... right to property was the most significant as compared to right to life and liberty. It was most sacred. He didn't not agree to Aristotle's notion of private property but somehow greed to Rousseau's notions on the same, who believed that once property ownership has become concentrated in ... very extrem...

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... was to remind people of information they already knew (Cowie, 1999). Although Plato's views are not supported today, he laid the groundwork for other researchers to follow. Alternatively, philosopher Aristotle theorized a different idea about human behavior. He presented the idea that humans are born into the world with a "blank slate" and people's behavior and thoughts are due to experience ... can be formed into beliefs and judgments without the operation of specific internal mechanisms" (Cowie, 1999, p. 17). Simultaneously, John Locke and his fellow philosophers campaigned for empiri...

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