PSYC 3100 Lecture Notes - Tabula Rasa, Franz Boas, List Of Acer Species
16 Sep 2013
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Franz boas; emile durkheim (father of social psychology); john locke (philosopher) Noble savage romantic view, man and woman are peaceful, and then we get screwed up because society is evil and rotten and it infects us with lots of evil and rotten shit. Romantic: the peaceable kingdom (lions lying down with lambs: you don"t want to be the lamb! Anti-biological: biological universe becomes everything but us. Anti-deterministic: cannot operate outside of cause and effect. If you want to understand something on outside world until analyses down to cellular level can try to make sense of it. Ghosts in the machine says nonsense, you can never get close enough, haven"t taken soul into account. If you understand the entire human brain, you will still not understand human behaviour, science is not enough; it goes beyond natural law. Goes by supernatural force that we can never get our hands on.
