PS101 Lecture Notes - Reductionism, Wilhelm Wundt, Tabula Rasa
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Ta hours: chris harris- room 2005 science building, tuesday 4:30-5:30. Deontologist- would not agree with the death penalty, shouldn"t kill someone to set an example for others. How do we explain people who do not intervene, who simply observe. Not simply apathy, worry that they are not capable of helping. They are bound, and to separate the two is not wise. You must look at the person who carries the disorder, not exclusively the disorder itself. Woman who ate too much fish to lose weight, had too much mercury and the tissue level began affecting her outer layers, kept going to psychologists. Many people have suffered from the same things for a very long amount of time. Animism- the theory that every material object has a separate spirit. Every plant, animal, start, etc. contains a second being. Van gogh thought everything he painted had a separate spirit. Thought life should be dedicated to the pursuit of ideas, neglected the body.
