Philosophical Views on Human Nature
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According to Locke, what is the state of the mind at birth?

  • Prone to vice
  • Tabula rasa (correct)
  • Innately virtuous
  • Full of innate ideas

What did Locke propose as the source of all ideas in the mind?

  • Innate knowledge
  • Divine intervention
  • Senses (correct)
  • Civil laws

How does Locke define moral good?

  • Instinctual behavior
  • Innate sense of right and wrong
  • Conformity or non-conformity of behavior to some law (correct)
  • Random acts of kindness

What did David Hume credit for giving empiricism its clearest formulation?

<p>Hume's philosophical contributions (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

According to Hume, what are impressions?

<p>Immediate sensations of external reality (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are ideas, according to Hume?

<p>Recollections of impressions (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which principle formulated by Hume relates to the vividness of impressions compared to ideas?

<p>None of the above (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What kind of perceptions are impressions?

<p>Immediate sensations of external reality (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does Hume claim to be the source of the idea of cause and effect?

<p>Certain relations between objects experienced by people (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which philosopher emphasized that the mind at birth is a blank slate?

<p>Locke (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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