Summarize the position presented by John Locke in Essay on Human Understanding

What will be an ideal response?


Essay responses should include these points:
• Locke proposed that individuals are capable of governing themselves.
• He introduced the idea of tabula rasa ("blank slate"), implying that humans are truly formed by their environment.
• Through tabula rasa, humans in a reasonable society will grow into reasonable people.

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As a manner of inquiry, René Descartes advocated

a. the dialectic method. b. deductive reasoning. c. inductive reasoning. d. the empirical method.

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What were the principal contributions of the naturalistic and humanistic philosophers?

What will be an ideal response?

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Which of these 19th-century artists were known especially for their scenes depicting nature?

A) ?Constable and Turner B) ?Daumier and Goya C) ?Delacroix and Caspar Friedrich D) ?David and Géricault

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What film first used the Vitaphone system for both music and spoken dialogue?

A. King Kong B. Don Juan C. Gone with the Wind D. The Jazz Singer

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