Exam 2: Human Nature

Augustine did not believe that humans have wills.

____________________ is the view that humans are made up of two substances.

One version of ____________________ is the identity theory of the mind.

Aristotle claimed that barbarians could be enslaved by Greeks.

The view that "all humans have a rational spiritual self that is distinct from its body" is the

Freud wrote Civilization and Its Discontents.

____________________ is the view that we should explain mental states in terms of perceptual inputs and behavioral outputs.

Do you believe that there is a "you" to whom this question is addressed? Explain your answer.

Do you think that humans have a different moral status than other animals? Why? If your view is that they have certain properties that other animals lack, do all humans have these properties? If not, do those that lack them lack the moral status that you ascribe to humans? If your view is that humans matter morally because they are human¾why does being human count for so much?

What is "psychological egoism"? Do you find it a compelling view of human nature? Why, or why not?

If we are genetically inclined to be selfish, does this justify our selfishness or merely explain it? Explain your answer.

Moritz Schlick argued for

Hobbes believed that humans were altruistic.

Plotinus was influenced by

The view that processes such as thought and life are really nothing more than physical and chemical processes is called ____________________.

The view that humans are whatever they make themselves is termed

According to Plato, humans can control their appetites and aggressive impulses through the use of their ____________________.

What, for Plato, was an eternal and perfect ideal that existed in an unchanging heaven?

In behaviorism, our consciousness seems to have disappeared.

Descrates' view of human nature says that humans are ____________________ minds with ____________________ bodies.