Kastalia Knowledge Management System · Glasperlenspiel template · knot 1931
Empiricism and Materialism
Soul increasingly reduced to observable mental or bodily processes.
Locke: denies innate ideas—soul as tabula rasa, a passive receiver. Start of the NATURE / NURTURE debate.
Hume: rejects a persistent self; mind is a bundle of perceptions.
La Mettrie: human soul is an effect of bodily mechanisms (*L'homme machine*).
Diderot and French materialists view soul as an illusion of matter in motion.
Mind-body dualism increasingly replaced by monist materialism.
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Empiricism and Materialism
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Empiricism and Materialism
Descendants (at least 3 branches originate here)
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Empiricism and Materialism
Soul increasingly reduced to observable mental or bodily processes. Locke: denies innate ideas—soul as tabula rasa, a passive receiver. Start of the NATURE / N
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Soul or mind functions through the association of ideas. David Hartley: vibrations in nerves correspond to mental associations. Mind explained through natural l -
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L'homme machine
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The human body is a machine which winds its own springs. It is the living image of perpetual movement. Without food, the soul pines away, goes mad, an
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