AN101 Chapter Notes -Linguistic Anthropology, Biological Anthropology, Dual Inheritance Theory
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Chapter 1: the anthropological perspective on the human condition. Dualism: philosophical view that reality consists of two equal and irreducible forces. Idealism: philosophical view that ideas or the mind that produces these ideas constitute the essence of human nature (plato) Materialism: philosophical idea that the actions of our bodies constitute the essence of human nature. Determinism: the philosophical idea that one force (or many) causes/determines complex events. Essence: unchanging core of features that is unique to things that are the same and makes them what they are (chairs, cows, people etc. ) Philosophers have agreed that there is a human essence they don"t necessarily agree what it is. The essence is shaped by varying forces that we encounter. Karl marx forces in the economic production and the class structure. Extreme idealist no fixed essence when born but they become a certain human based off of their ideas.
