Based upon having Objectivity in life There is one focused truth in life Humans are made to find this one truth 1. Self Control 2. Mathematics 3. Self Evidence All used as main rationalist concepts and points

Lack of: 1. rational knowledge 2. Objectivity 3. Self-control Man is subjective, not objective Cannot see the world independently without themself

Humans can be anything they want. "Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take anyone at random and train him to be any time of specialist."

Believes: 1.. All humans beings have a soul 2. The human soul has three parts 3. Unique human component of the should does two things a. IT controls other parts (I.E. desire) b. IT has access to truth because it is able to think about the world

Followed Platos beliefs, added laws and principles: 1. Law of identity 2. Law of non-contradiction 3. Law of excluded middle 4. Principle of Sufficient reason Reasoning is a gift of god

Believed reason is less powerful than imagination Used skepticism as a main point against rationalism Reason is nothing more than a calculation Also "concepts we have invented and not truth" is a belief

1. God We amalgamate power to a central being 2. Morality Nowhere is it possible to evaluate morals as good or bad 3. Basic Principles of reasoning Things are nothing more than complex ideas just like imaginary ideas

Believed in natural selection Challenged the long valued theological arguments "Is man an ape or an angel? - counters by Benjamin Disraeli

Accounts the the mind, which focuses on unconsciousness and consciousness.

"Beyond Good and Evil" (1886) attacks philosophy and more particular, rationalistic assumptions. Rejects the key tenets of rationalist perspective on human nature.

"White paper, void of all characters." Beliefs that experience is from “from whence all the ideas we have, or can naturally have, do spring."

What thing constitutes reason and rational

Argues that experience alone is insufficient enough to explain the minds. Argues that thought, as it occurs, would be impossible given nothing more than a blank slate receiving experience. Combined rationalism and empiricism into one system.

Two main ideas: 1. We are born without ideas already in our mind. 2. Everything we know and believe comes from our experiences of the world around us. Rejection of Rationalist

An empiricist view by which we build ideas from our own personal experiences and associations.

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IB Philosophy important Philosophers

Question	Answer
Rationality	Based upon having Objectivity in life There is one focused truth in life Humans are made to find this one truth 1. Self Control 2. Mathematics 3. Self Evidence All used as main rationalist concepts and points
Irrationality	Lack of: 1. rational knowledge 2. Objectivity 3. Self-control Man is subjective, not objective Cannot see the world independently without themself
Blank Slate	Humans can be anything they want. "Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take anyone at random and train him to be any time of specialist."
Plato	Believes: 1.. All humans beings have a soul 2. The human soul has three parts 3. Unique human component of the should does two things a. IT controls other parts (I.E. desire) b. IT has access to truth because it is able to think about the world
Descartes	Followed Platos beliefs, added laws and principles: 1. Law of identity 2. Law of non-contradiction 3. Law of excluded middle 4. Principle of Sufficient reason Reasoning is a gift of god
Hobbes	Believed reason is less powerful than imagination Used skepticism as a main point against rationalism Reason is nothing more than a calculation Also "concepts we have invented and not truth" is a belief
Hume	1. God We amalgamate power to a central being 2. Morality Nowhere is it possible to evaluate morals as good or bad 3. Basic Principles of reasoning Things are nothing more than complex ideas just like imaginary ideas
Darwin	Believed in natural selection Challenged the long valued theological arguments "Is man an ape or an angel? - counters by Benjamin Disraeli
Freud	Accounts the the mind, which focuses on unconsciousness and consciousness.
Nietzches	"Beyond Good and Evil" (1886) attacks philosophy and more particular, rationalistic assumptions. Rejects the key tenets of rationalist perspective on human nature.
Locke	"White paper, void of all characters." Beliefs that experience is from “from whence all the ideas we have, or can naturally have, do spring."
Watson
Marx
Butler
Relativism	What thing constitutes reason and rational
Kant	Argues that experience alone is insufficient enough to explain the minds. Argues that thought, as it occurs, would be impossible given nothing more than a blank slate receiving experience. Combined rationalism and empiricism into one system.
Empiricism	Two main ideas: 1. We are born without ideas already in our mind. 2. Everything we know and believe comes from our experiences of the world around us. Rejection of Rationalist
Associationism	An empiricist view by which we build ideas from our own personal experiences and associations.
Behaviorism

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