In our society everyone has a different view on how you should act and how they should be raised. When we look at the beginning scene of the movie Divergent, it talks about how the human race is split up into five different groups. Each of the groups were created so that society could maintain order and peace with each other. The kids are born into the same society as their parents and they are taught right from wrong.
When the kids get to a certain age they are given a test to see what faction they will end up in, but they do not have to pick that faction when it comes down to the final decision. The main character Tris has both Nature and Nurture in her. She has the ability to go off and follow her mind but she still has a part that wants to do what her parents taught her. Nature is how we are raised, the environment we are brought up in and the way our parents have taught us are all ways that shape up as humans. Nurture is what is at the core of each human, it’s already decided for us.
John Locke says that our Nature is not based on our genes or traits but instead that we are born with a blank slate, when we grow up the experiences that we have makes us us. Nurture is everything, nature is nothing. David Hume also argues for nurture and that it’s all based on the experiences we have growing up. Locke’s Theory is that the society we live in imprints either goodness or badness upon the child as they grow and mature, therefore if a child is taught right from wrong, proper manners, social decorum, the child will naturally display these behaviors.
When it comes to Hume he states that the notion that thoughts and facts come from experience in order to analyze the ideas of space, time, and mathematics. If we have no ride of a concept, such as the dimension of the universe, that idea cannot be meaningful. Hume insists that our ideas or our impressions are infinitely divisible. If we persevered to strive to smash them down ,we would arrive at a stage too small for us to perceive or grasp conceptually.
Since we have no ride of endless divisibility, the concept that matters or ideas are infinitely divisible is meaningless. Mathematics, however, is a machine of pure members of the family of ideas, and so it retains its cost even though we can’t at once trip its phenomena. Many of its concepts no longer preserve things in fact, but it is the sole realm of know-how in which perfect certainty is viable anyway. Hume introduces two of his three tools of philosophical inquiry, the “microscope” and the “razor.”
The microscope is the principle that to apprehend and think, we ought to first spoil it down into a variety of easy thoughts that make it up. The razor is the precept that if any time period can’t be demonstrated to occur from a concept that can be damaged into simpler thoughts and ready for analysis, then that term has no meaning. Hume uses his razor precept to devalue abstract principles pertaining to faith and metaphysics.
Despite his apparent hostility to summary thoughts of a metaphysical nature, Hume no longer deems all summary ideas worthless. Hume argues that the thinking naturally types associations between ideas from impressions that are comparable in area and time. In the mind, a common time period turns into associated with further precise situations of these similar impressions and comes to stand for all of them. This process explains why we can visualize particular events that we might also now not have sincerely experienced, primarily based on their affiliation with those activities that we have experienced.
In the film divergent from the very moment they are born until they are 16 years old they are raised to follow certain rules that comply with the standards of the society. Once they reach the age of 16 they are able to switch out of that faction and into a new faction. This can go into the idea of freedom which allows us to become our own person. When they go up to the stand they are picking their freedom, they get to decide what they want to do. They have a free will now that they get to pick what they want to do, this is Nurture because they have gained experience and they are applying it to what they actually want to do with the rest of their life’s.
When I think of freedom I think of the ability to choose what I want to do and use the experiences I have to make those choices in life. Freedom allows a person to have their own sense of mind and not let anyone decide for them. Freedom is what makes a person different from everyone else, that allows society to become diverse and allow more nurture to younger people.
We can also look at Spinoza and his work Ethics Demonstrated in Geometrical Order. In Part 3: The Origin and Nature of the Affects, in this part he tries to show that humans follow the order of nature . Spinoza’s view is that human beings have causal natures similar in kind to other ordinary objects, other “finite modes” in the technical language of the Ethics, so they ought to be analyzed and understood in the same way as the rest of nature. His second view he tries to show moral concepts, such as the concept of good and evil, virtue, and perfection. His account of humans affects the actions and passions of the human mind.
