Critically Compare How the Nature-Nurture Debate Has Been Addressed by Three Different Researchers or Schools or Thought in Psychology and/or Philosophy. at Least One of the Researchers/Schools Must Have Been Active Before the 20th Century.
Critically compare how the nature-nurture debate has been addressed by three different researchers or schools or thought in Psychology and/or Philosophy. At least one of the researchers/schools must have been active before the 20th century.
Theories whose fundamental understanding of human behaviour focuses on characteristics in which, we are born with like our genetic make-up, stable personality traits, and physical predispositions are Naturists. In contrast theorists who are on the nurture side of this debate argue that human behaviour is a result of life experiences that mould and change through one’s life such as how one is reared by their parents, what one is educated in school and one’s culture. The nature vs. nurture debate can be traced all the way to 13th century France and to a manuscript, Silence. 17th century philosopher Descartes was also a major influence on nature and nurture debate and argued that we do not come into the world completely void of any conceptions about it. On the other spectrum to his line of thinking was Sir Francis Galton who argued that we come into the world completely ignorant. It is widely accepted in the scientific world that Darwin had the most profound effect on the nature and nurture debate and Galton had a cumbersome effect on his pupil and relative Darwin who stated that most of one’s qualities are innate and the environment effect is minimal. In this essay I will attempt to show the parallels that different thinkers; Darwin, Dawkins and Locke have taken in the nature vs. nurture debate.
Silence, is allegedly the work of Heldriss of Cornwall. During the course of the novel, on two occasions the characters nature and nurture, metaphorical personifications of the effect of heredity and environment, engage in an energetic debate (cited in Phillip Groff & Laura McRae). In one of a number of motifs that may have influenced the idea of nature and nurture debate can be seen in Sarah Roche-Mahdi edition of the Silence and
Theories whose fundamental understanding of human behaviour focuses on characteristics in which, we are born with like our genetic make-up, stable personality traits, and physical predispositions are Naturists. In contrast theorists who are on the nurture side of this debate argue that human behaviour is a result of life experiences that mould and change through one’s life such as how one is reared by their parents, what one is educated in school and one’s culture. The nature vs. nurture debate can be traced all the way to 13th century France and to a manuscript, Silence. 17th century philosopher Descartes was also a major influence on nature and nurture debate and argued that we do not come into the world completely void of any conceptions about it. On the other spectrum to his line of thinking was Sir Francis Galton who argued that we come into the world completely ignorant. It is widely accepted in the scientific world that Darwin had the most profound effect on the nature and nurture debate and Galton had a cumbersome effect on his pupil and relative Darwin who stated that most of one’s qualities are innate and the environment effect is minimal. In this essay I will attempt to show the parallels that different thinkers; Darwin, Dawkins and Locke have taken in the nature vs. nurture debate.
Silence, is allegedly the work of Heldriss of Cornwall. During the course of the novel, on two occasions the characters nature and nurture, metaphorical personifications of the effect of heredity and environment, engage in an energetic debate (cited in Phillip Groff & Laura McRae). In one of a number of motifs that may have influenced the idea of nature and nurture debate can be seen in Sarah Roche-Mahdi edition of the Silence and