Essays on Tabula Rasa

The title of this work is Latin for a mind not yet affected by experiences or anything existing undisturbed in its original pure state. The minds of many great philosophers such as Thomas Hobbes and John Locke have explored and argued the structure of human…

The Cyclical Nature of Theory and Observation The advent of mankind’s ability to observe, reason, and create contributed to the human need to organize and understand the natural world. Although John Locke’s tabula rasa philosophy is a renowned Western belief, human beings are genetically preconditioned…

Many parents believe that a child comes into this world as a “tabula rasa”, a blank slate. They think it is their task to mold the child in order to make him or her into a decent human being. If it wasn’t for them controlling…