Exam 2: Human Nature

Who proposed the idea of natural selection?

Over thousands of years the process of ____________________ ____________________ can make a species change into a new species.

Aristotle held that all living things have a purpose.

J.J.C. Smart endorsed what theory of human nature?

Siddhartha Gautama was the founder of ____________________.

Who said that men possess "a powerful measure of desire for aggressiveness"?

____________________ argued that a person's culture is the mirror through which society shows her who and what she is.

Who wrote Being and Nothingness?

Schlick claimed that humans were both self-interested and material bodies.

The philosopher who believed that who you are depends on your relationships to others is:

The self is the ego.

Do you agree with the existentialists that humans are what they make of themselves? Why, or why not? What might the practical consequences of accepting the existentialist view be for (a) your own life, (b) social policy? Explain your answer.

Behaviorism began as a school of ____________________ that restricted the study of humans to what could be observed.

By "soul" Plato meant "inner self".

Existentialism emphasizes the free and conscious individual.