SOC 4010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Tabula Rasa, Noble Savage, The Blank Slate
2 Dec 2018
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-christians, rousseau, marxists, and historical feminists imagine and assume a primitive utopia. -hobbes said that life was nasty, brutish and short, and a war of all against all. -philosophers, poets, and anthropologists have had swings about both it & nature. -caveman stereotypes gave way to view of early mankind as more intelligent & social animal. -one version of fallacy is to derive the ought from the is --) or to wrongly accuse other people of doing it! -some ideologues are resistant to exploring roots of violence or admitting in any way that it can be natural. -they insist that violence is unnatural and a recent phenomenon (and ignore the evidence) -we must go where the facts lead us, and be unafraid. -pinker says social scientists denied for a century there is any basis to human nature (other than socialization) -scientists can prove that genetics play a large role in personality and intelligence.
