1. thomas hobbes
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Skinner says that we are a product of environment and conditioning. Thus we are not a single person but a collaboration of people placed inside one. Indeed this may be true, but to disprove Skinner, we chose whether we wish to believe what we hear. Conditioning serves it purpose when upbringing, but not when the individual rebels. Rebellion is caused by a spark of free, individual thought, that does form into mass thought. Essentially then, there must be and individual, because we couldn't have evolved without individual thinking.
As young fetus, all mammals resemble each other very much. You see a little body then with head and bottom, two arms on the shoulders and two legs on the hips. All mammals have the same inner-body, which resembles that of birds as well. Later however, all kinds of protection grow around that naked body of animals, like furs, feathers, scales, shields and sometimes even whole houses. All kinds of tools grow on the limbs as well, like hoofs and claws on arms and legs, wings on the arms, beaks on the mouth, horns and antlers on the head et cetera. Only the human keeps on looking like the fetus, even grown up. So, our body makes us not elevated above animals. On the contrary, we actually are the most beastly looking animals on earth, pure biology and naked existence, the essence of all animals. It is our mind that makes us different, makes .
us human, or our spirit or whatever name one gives to that power of comprehension we have. Would we all lose our mind tonight, by some kind of virus, then tomorrow we would be ordinary apes again, naked apes. Clumsy apes too, who would have little chance to survive. If it were cold, we would not have the idea to put on clothes, and next to a wardrobe full of clothes we then could freeze. So the human, that is his mind. Understanding the human therefore means understanding our mind. What is our mind doing? How does it work? What exactly is understanding? Why do we have a mind? .
But all these styles are based on the Tao, a branch of philosphy founded by Lao Zi which asked people to obey the rule by the universe and treat ourselves as a part of the nature. ... So there're some Confucian standards used in philosphy too. ...
Aristotle Aristotle was one of the greatest philosophers of ancient Greece, and one of the greatest minds in human history. Although many of his works were disproved with modern technology, the gaps he made with his limited knowledge of the world at that time shows truly how smart ...
Wiggins 1 Summary A lonely man tries to ease his sorrow by reading books of the "forgotten sorrow-. However, he got interrupted by a tapping at his door. He goes to open up the door, but to his avail, there is nothing there. Into the darkness he whispers for his lost love, but all he heard back...
The apartheid system was a social and political policy of racial segregation and discrimination which was enforced by the white Afrikaner government in South Africa. The apartheid system was enforced by a series of repressive laws and regulations which prohibited social contact between races, enforc...
Truman idea of an ideal world was different from that of Adam & Eve because of the simple fact that Truman thought that reality , our reality , was real rather than believing the philosphy of Adam & Eve which was the perfect world was a world of harmony . ...
As we can see, thus, there is a clear allegory throughout the whole text identifying science with observation of nature: the both of them are closely related and nature is definitely the main source to acquire knowledge, as if it was "philosphied" science. ...
John Locke was born on August 29, 1632, into a middle class family during late Renaissance England. Locke started his studies at Christ Church in Oxford. He then went into medical studies and received a medical license, which he practiced under Anthony Cooper. They became friends, and when Cooper be...
Raphael's Philosophy, or better known as School of Athens, 1509-1511 was one of the many great paintings that re-established the harmony of classical antiquity from the Greek and Roman predecessors of art during the glorious Renaissance era. It was a time of revival, renewal, and expression in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. Here, we will explore the visual elements and principles of design that hold School of Athens in a harmonious balance. The School of Athens shows a setting inside a building with large domical vaults with a large group of men occupying the middle g...