Essays on Tabula rasa

There has always been a large controversy over whether inherited genes or the environment influences and affects our personality, development, behavior, intelligence and ability. This controversy is most often recognized as the nature verses nurture conflict. Does how you are raised affect your views as an adult more than what your genetic codes dictate? If…

This study was about our concepts of human nature affects every aspect of our lives, from the way we raise our children to the political movements we embrace. Pinker in the article states, “On one side is a militant denial of human nature, a conviction that the mind of a child is a blank slate…

Is Lady Gaga right? Were we all born this way? Or are we all really products of our environment? Did God make us the way we are? Or, do we become who we are through knowledge and experience? If these seem like familiar questions, that’s because they are. These are the fundamental questions surrounding the…

            Rene Descartes and John Locke are among the most distinct philosophers of the modern period. Both have constructed their own philosophies on the theory of Knowledge. How knowledge is achieved and what constitute knowledge are the most fundamental questions that are essential in the inquiry on knowledge.             Though both Descartes and Locke have…