BLAW 3202 Chapter : Property Legal Issues 3
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Aristotle 384-322 bce: tabula rasa: aristotle believed that the human mind is a blank slate which experiences the rights upon, used the blank slate as a tool or a metaphor. Plato: aristotle"s teacher: he did not believe in tabula rasa, he believed that our minds pre existed and we are born with traits, tendencies, personalities, modern philosophy. Rene descartes: rationalist: we cannot trust our sense and cannot gain true knowledge through observation. The only thing we can trust is logic and mathematics: cartesian dualism (physical vs. mental): Descartes idea that the mind is fundamentally different than the body. He said we have a mind but the stuff that it is made up of is not the same stuff as our physical bodies is made up of. Locke: empiricists (opposite of rationalist): they believe that the only way we can have knowledge of the world is through observation; if you cannot observe something you can"t have knowledge about it.
