PSY 4130 Lecture 3: Chapter 6
13 Feb 2017
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Empiricists describes a passive mind which acts in mechanical way. Rationalists proposed an active mind that acts on information from the senses from the sense and gives it meaning. Empiricists prosed that experience, memory, associates and hedonism determine how a person things and their morality. Rationalists, there are rational reasons some acts/thoughts are more desirable than others. Proposed that god, nature and mind were aspects of the same substance: god, nature and mind were inseparable. Pantheism: god was nature, to understand nature is to understand god, god is present everywhere and in everything. Double aspectism: the mind-body issue was dealt with by assuming that the mind and body were two aspects of the same thing. We really do not have free will. Humans are part of nature: thus thoughts and behaviour is lawful/determined, our freedom is realizing that everything that is must be necessarily be and everything that happens must necessarily happen, because everything results from god.
