PSY 4130 Lecture 2: Lecture on Chapter 6 - Rationalism (Midterm 1)
5 Mar 2016
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Empiricists: passive mind, acts on sensations and ideas in an automatic/mechanical way o. Propose experience, memory, associations, hedonism determine how a person thinks + acts also their own morality. Rationalist: active mind, interacts w info from senses and gives it meaning it otherwise wouldn"t have, sensory experiences o o. Mind adds something to sensory data, rather than organizing/storing in memory. Rational reasons some acts/thoughts more desirable than others. Philosophical position postulating active mind transforms sensory info, capable of understanding abstract principles or concepts not attainable from sensory information alone. Everything in nature including humans = both matter + consciousness. God, nature, mind aspects of same substance (inseparable) o. Double aspectism /aspect monism o o o including humans. Material substance + consciousness 2 inseparable aspects of everything in the universe. Mind-body issue dealt with by assuming the mind/body were two aspects of the same thing.
