UTS Chapter 1 (Philosophy) Part 2

"No Man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience."

• John Locke

• David Hume

• Immanuel Kant

• Sigmund Freud

Exerted that the human mind at birth is TABULA RASA or blank slate.

• John Locke

• David Hume

• Immanuel Kant

• Sigmund Freud

One of the most influential Enlightenment thinkers who expanded the definition of “the self” to include the memories of that thinking thing.

• John Locke

• David Hume

• Immanuel Kant

• Sigmund Freud

Answer explanation

The Age of Enlightenment

or the Age of Reason was an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the ideas in Europe during the 18th century.

"A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence."

• John Locke

• David Hume

• Immanuel Kant

• Sigmund Freud

A Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian during the Age of Enlightenment, An empiricist and a fierce opponent of Descartes’ rationalism.

• John Locke

• David Hume

• Immanuel Kant

• Sigmund Freud

Answer explanation

Rationalism is the

theory that reason, rather than experience, is the foundation of all knowledge.

Who are the three main figureheads of the influential British Empiricism movement?

• John Locke

• David Hume

• Bishop George Berkeley

• Sigmund Freud

Answer explanation

Empiricism is idea that the origin of all knowledge is sense experience emphasizing the role of experience and evidence in forming concepts discounting the notion of innate ideas.

His bundle theory describes the “self” or person as a bundle or a collection of different perceptions that are moving in a very fast and successive manner; therefore, it is a “perpetual flux”.

• John Locke

• David Hume

• Immanuel Kant

• Sigmund Freud

Answer explanation

A "perpetual" feeling, state, or quality is one that never ends or changes. If something is in a state of "flux", it is constantly changing.

David Hume recognized two kinds of mind's perception:

___ and ___.

• Ideas

• Impressions

• Feelings

• Interactions

[David Hume's 2 kinds of perception]

These are the perceptions that are the strongest. They enter the senses with most force. These are directly experienced; directly experienced; they result from inward and outward sentiments.

• Ideas

• Impressions

[David Hume's 2 kinds of perception]

These are mechanisms that copy and reproduce sense of data formulated based upon the previously perceived impressions.

• Ideas

• Impressions