Unit 1: Core theme — Being human
Topic 1.5: Human nature Questions
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Hume's line 'reason is the slave of the passions' means:
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True or false? On the 'outline vs content' view, every culture has SOME language, but which language differs.
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A serious problem with strong cultural relativism is that:
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Fill the gap with one word: Skinner's science of shaping behaviour through rewards and punishments is called ______.
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Descartes' view of the passions is that they:
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A 'human universal' is:
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The modern 'interaction' answer says:
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Cultural relativism is the view that:
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True or false? Locke's tabula rasa is a 'nurture' idea, because it says experience writes everything on us.
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One good reason to doubt a single fixed human nature is that:
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True or false? 'Human nature' is meant to be the same in everyone, not the quirks that make you an individual.
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Fill the gap with one word: Xunzi says goodness is not inborn but an achievement, ______ into us by teachers, rituals and rules.
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A weakness of 'reason should rule' (Descartes) is that:
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'Human nature' means the traits you have:
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The 'emotion vs reason' debate asks whether humans are basically driven by:
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Aristotle's function argument concludes that human nature is to:
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Xunzi held that goodness is:
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For Aristotle, a thing's 'function' is:
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The 'nurture' side of the debate claims that who you are is:
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A top-band Paper 1 Section A answer on human nature mainly:
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