tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-732469422871322756.post7259819024205775490..comments2023-11-05T01:12:31.969-08:00Comments on VIOLETPLANET: John Locke: The Tabula Rasa, An Exercise Of Power...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-732469422871322756.post-78656076267486759402009-02-08T06:01:00.000-08:002009-02-08T06:01:00.000-08:00That was a very interesting blog, the qoute was gr...That was a very interesting blog, the qoute was great and very medidative, thank youAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-732469422871322756.post-2081830634299265202009-01-24T06:14:00.000-08:002009-01-24T06:14:00.000-08:00Perhaps the idea that people can do anything they ...Perhaps the idea that people can do anything they put their minds to is good advice and true to some extent.<BR/><BR/>And certainly, people become a reflection of the environment in which they are born. But Locke, tho revolutionary for his time, might be called a simplistic thinker now.<BR/><BR/>First there is the matter of genetics, which we have just begun to understand. Altho, I cannot prove it, I strongly suspect there is a 'compassion' gene which the power mongers and Big Dogs of business either do not have, or it has become defunct through the educational oppression of the ME ME ME consumer world which we have created with capitalism.<BR/><BR/>Second, there is the issue of societal relationships on which all survival depends. Can one eliminate the maternal extinct of a new mother? Certainly a compassionate person's (or society's) heart may be turned to stone through abuse. But it is not necessarily so.<BR/><BR/>I prefer the concepts of Marx, tho he never explicitly spoke of 'human nature'. Embodied in his writings about 'alienation' can be found essentials for the potentiality of human beings and social order.<BR/><BR/>It is not so much that tabula rasa is untrue: it is that it purports to be a simplistic truth about a very complex entity - the human being. <BR/><BR/>Perhaps taken as a piece of the puzzle, Locke gives us hope.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for reminding me of Locke. I have not thought of him in years.<BR/><BR/>Always an interesting blog from you.<BR/><BR/>Cheers.Sheilanagighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01535514034740406104noreply@blogger.com