HIST-1107EL Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Karl Philipp Moritz, Tabula Rasa, Immanuel Kant
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1739/1740 traity on human nature, an attempt to introduce the experimental method of reasoning in moral disciplines . The 3 laws of association: similarity, contiguity - repeated experience becomes anticipated, cause and effect causality, if always x then y. Condition: cause and effect are contiguous, cause is always previous, constant union, unique relation. Anthropology from a pragmatic point of view (1798) Criticizes him for: needs a theoretical framework, some laws and observations should be repeatable. Basic human capacities: knowing, state of mind, wanting. Developed anthropology generalizations based on the observation of human behaviour in society character: is the feature that distinguishes one human being from another and humans from other living beings. Important concepts for lecture: historiography constructivism contextualization looping effect (hacking) renaissance . School proposed humoral theory explaining health and illness as a result of imbalance among four prominent liquid substances humours (blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm) On the sacred disease- dealt with severe comvulsive epilepsy.