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    evolution" (Bailey & Gillespie‚ 2002‚ p.2).The Blank Slate theory derived from John Locke‚ a great philosopher who lived in the 16th century. In John Locke ’s philosophy‚ tabula rasa was the theory that the (human) mind is at birth a "blank slate" void of all characters‚ without any ideas or rules for processing data‚ and that data is added and rules for processing it formed solely by our sensory experiences. As understood by Locke‚ tabula rasa meant that the mind of the individual was born "blank"‚ and

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    relation is always conflictual. Another theory which is completely the opposite is Liberalism. The Classical Liberalism theory is a political ideology which was founded on ideas of freedom and equality. That ideology was introduced to the world by John Locke in the Seventeenth Century (Jackson‚2010). The Classical Liberalism belief in progress and has a conviction that international relation can be cooperative. In that essay will be compared and contrast main arguments of two theory’s which is Classical

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    conditions of human life itself. Many of the thinkers of the European Enlightenment moved away from medieval thinking toward more modern thoughts regarding government and the role of women in society. Document 1 Second Treatise on Government - John Locke . Political power is that power‚ which every man having in the state of nature‚ has given up into the hands of the society‚ and therein to the governors‚ whom the society hath set over itself‚ with this express or tacit trust‚ that it shall be

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    cross-cultural contact" that "triggered anxieties" for Europeans about the nature of being civilized (Outram‚ 2004). To the 17th century English philosopher John Locke‚ an early archetype of an enlightened thinker‚ the discovery of the New World of America "enlarged the sphere of contemplation" about "civilized man" and his "savage ancestors" (Locke‚ 1690). There was more to discover. The scientific journeys of exploration around the Pacific in the 18th century by James Cook‚ another archetypal figure

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    Nature vs Nurture Debate

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    In contrast to nature‚ the nurture aspect was originated from John Locke‚ who believed we are born with a tabula rasa (blank slate)‚ and our experiences are written upon it. John Watson a behaviourist believed that we are shaped from our experiences‚ and from this he claimed that he could take a child from any background and shape them into whatever he wanted purely from social experience (Passer & Smith 2008. p 9.). These ideas appear to be too simplistic as there is more to humans than our environment

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    Hobbes‚ John Locke‚ and Jean Jacques-Rousseau are believed to be the foremost political philosophers of Western Civilization. Like Hobbes and Locke‚ Rousseau believed in the social contract theory. This theory states that there exists an arrangement among the governed to submit to a common authority. As a result‚ the governed surrender them to a sovereign authority. This theory is an attempt to answer the question‚ “What justifies the existence of the state?” Hobbes‚ Rousseau‚ and Locke were avid

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    Hayao Miyazaki’s films and Environmentalism Miyazaki’s films have an underlying message of environmental understanding and awareness of spiritual elements that surround us in our world. Using animated films as a medium‚ he is able to convey this and society’s problems in an altered reality in which we all can relate to. I. Environmental consciousness Environmentalism is an ideology regarding concerns for environmental conservation and improvement of the health of the environment‚ particularly

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    persons’."[7] For Berlin‚ negative liberty represents a different‚ and sometimes contradictory‚ understanding of the concept of liberty‚ which needs to be carefully examined. Its later proponents (such as Tocqueville‚ Constant‚ Montesquieu‚ John Locke‚ David Hume and John Stuart Mill‚[citation needed] who accepted Chrysippus’ understanding of self-determination)[8] insisted that constraint and discipline were the antithesis of liberty and so were (and are) less prone to confusing liberty and constraint

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    and is given its first full exposition and defense by Thomas Hobbes. After Hobbes‚ John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau are the best known proponents of this enormously influential theory‚ which has been one of the most dominant theories within moral and political theory throughout the history of the modern West. In the twentieth century‚ moral and political theory regained philosophical momentum as a result of John Rawls’ Kantian version of social contract theory‚ and was followed by new analyses

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    leaders make the rules for you 8. This takes you OUT of the state of nature 9. Tyranny occurs when power is exercised for private‚ not public‚ good; power is exercised outside the bounds of law and fails to preserve the property of citizens 10. John Locke believed people had a natural right to overthrow their leaders‚ should those leaders betray them. By socialization we mean the processes which one learns of appropriate behaviour and ways of thinking. Informal socialization occurs

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