[SOC231H5] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (27 pages long)
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Kant thought that not all knowledge came from direct experience unlike hume. Kant did not think the mind was a blank slate but rather an active agent understanding the experiences and data it collects. Kant thinks people are rational and understand what the perceive in terms of the minds categories and principles. Thus for kant, the mind imposes its laws on nature, not vice versa. Hegel saw the cognitive process as a dialectical process (stable thoughts reveal inherent instability) Describes absolute method of knowing containing thought, the dialectical moment, and the speculative moment or positive reason. Sees dialectic as a self-transformative process providing the epistemological paradigm for human history. Marx saw human mind as the totality of mental powers and human activities within a given society. Thought material world was a reflection of the human mind, translated into forms of thought. Some may argue marx is wrong and god id real, and religion does not keep down the lower class.
