It's for a William Blake essay. He believed when we were born our mind is a "tabula resa", based on the work of John Locke, but I can't find what that means anywhere!
2006-10-28 03:01:00 · 11 answers · asked by yeraciba 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Tabula Rasa means blank slate, or a human being is born innocent and that we gather all of our knowlegde through our experiences. Look at Lockes association with William Blake. Also look at the argument of nature vs nuture. Check out the following source (web site address), and scroll down and take note of the section that discusses Locke's work entitled: An essay of Human Understanding. I hope this helps you. Good luck :o)
2006-10-28 03:32:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You misspelled it. Google "tabula rasa", and you will find more about this.
tabula rasa means 'Blank slate" in Latin.
It means we were born ignorant of everything and all we know it the result of our experience.
Of course, the slate is still there. There are things we cannot know because of the limitations of the slate.
William Blake was a mystical Christian. John Locke was an atheist.
One reconciliation between the two is to be found in the works of Emmanuel Kant.
2006-10-28 03:13:58 · answer #2 · answered by Richard E 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The phrase you are looking for is "tabula rasa". It means that when we are born, our mind is a blank slate and we fill it up with what we learn and experience. We have no pre-conceived notions of anything at birth.
2006-10-28 03:04:18 · answer #3 · answered by Arletta S 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As all the others above have said, At birth our minds are a clean slate. I don't believe that though, It is more like an undeveloped negative waiting for the developer and fixative to be applied.
2006-10-28 04:34:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tabula rasa (Latin: scraped tablet or clean slate) refers to the epistemological thesis that individual human beings are born with no innate or built-in mental content, in a word, "blank", and that their entire resource of knowledge is built up gradually from their experiences and sensory perceptions of the outside world.
click here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabula_rasa
2006-10-28 03:02:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The first time I held my daughter(before she had been fed) she turned her head towards me and tried to suckle so I assume her slate was not completely blank.
2006-10-28 06:10:33 · answer #6 · answered by bo nidle 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Blank slate, which other people and our experiences then write on.
2006-10-28 03:02:52 · answer #7 · answered by Bumblebee 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
blank board, it's Latin. what he means is that we are totally the creation of our environment, our character and identity are formed by our interaction with, and our understanding of the world.
2006-10-28 03:06:15 · answer #8 · answered by socrates 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it means "blank slate"
2006-10-28 03:08:08 · answer #9 · answered by Z Z 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"blank slate"??? not sure, though
2006-10-28 03:02:39 · answer #10 · answered by MJ 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋