Locke in his activities he separated simple ideas into ideas coming from the combining of
senses, by combining sensation and reflecting, and ideas coming from the senses. Apart from
this, he theorized that it is impossible to have innate knowledge, for none of the ideas that
developed from our knowledge are innate. Immanuel believed in people immortality as the key
condition of the human continued the approach to the highest good possible. Kant agrees with
Locke that what people know about the world is based on the experiences, although it is through
the human structure of the mind that is never changing (Hewett, 2014).
Summary
In summary, the mind-body problem plus the nurture versus debate are two aspects that
in most aspects go together when in use by experts. As a result, these are things that have
developed debates in greater capacity and will be debated until the end of time. Aristotle and
Rene Descartes do both identify the concept of hylomorphism. They two believe that the human
being has a soul. In other aspects, Aristotle believed that the soul required the body and that the
body in return required soul (Ziegel, 2015). For the Descartes, he was a non-parallelist and did
not believe in a physiological connection to the aspect of pure understanding. In nurture versus
nature role in the acquisition of knowledge, John Locke had the belief that knowledge is

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something gained from some levels of experiences. Immanuel Kant on the other side believed
that the human mind do respond to the environment and surrounds from birth. He disagreed with
the Tabula Rasa theory developed by John Locke, simply because he did not believe the mind
only receives sensory data in its operations. Kant was reluctant to believe that humans are born
with innate ideas, although innate structures, which do logically configure data that is gained
through experiences.

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Ziegel, R. (2015). The Power of The Right Stuff: A Quasi-Experimental Field Test of the
Docudrama Hypothesis. Public Opinion Quarterly, 49(3), 330-339

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