POL 4376 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Tabula Rasa, Sukha, Deconstruction
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That"s because we experience it before and thats the idea: espistmoelogy: what is in the mind, you have two things: impressions and ideas. Impressions are everything that comes through the senses; these are external. Internal impressions are emotions and passions because when you receive these sensation you react to them (pleasure and pain). An idea is remembering the impression that you have had, when you are actually. Wednesday, january 25, 2017 seeing something you are experiencing it. We decide who"s admirable, what we should do on our spare time, what our career should be and who we love on the basis of feeling: reason helps, but passions dictate us. He believes humans are just another animal, we often reason from rather than to our conviction. Reason only supports our original attitude and what we feel: not all feelings are acceptable and equal, that"s why we must educate ourselves on our own passions.