Exam 2: Human Nature

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

What contemporary American philosopher argued that behind every action we perform is a "self-regarding end"?

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.

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 human why does being human count for so much?

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

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

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

What philosopher argued that humans are made up of dual substances, a material body and an immaterial mind?

Freud claimed that humans are selfish.

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

What philosopher argued that the mind could be reduced to the physical actions of the material body?

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

The philosophical view that human beings act only out of self-interest is called

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

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

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

Bad faith, according to Jean-Paul Sartre, is deceiving ourselves by pretending we are free.

says there is no universal human nature, no rational human nature, no purpose for human nature.

Aristotle held that all living things have a purpose.

In behaviorism, our consciousness seems to have disappeared.