Innate Essays

  • Plato and Locke's Views on an Innate Idea

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    Plato and Locke's Views on an Innate Idea What is an innate idea?  This can be defined as some idea or mental representation that is produced by outside perception or created anew by our imagination. It exists in the mind in virtue of the nature of the human mind. According to Plato most if not all of our knowledge is innate. However, John Locke feels that we do not have any innate ideas.  Then the question arises of who is right or are they both wrong.  In this paper I will

  • Innate Immunity

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    Discuss innate immunity. Provide a through overview of the first, second and third line pf defense; physical, mechanical and biochemical barriers; epithelial cells, mast cells, and lymphocytes. What is innate immunity? Innate immunity is a human defense mechanisms that the body acquire at birth to fight off infections and help out with the healing process when the body in injured. The first line of defense consists of barriers on the surface of the skin, which is nothing but normal flora of

  • The Innate Immune System

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    Innate is a defense you are born with and is nonspecific. Its job is to detect, deflect, and destroy. The innate immune system deals with stuff we were born with such as: external barricades like skin and mucus membrane, as well as, internal defenses like phagocytes, natural killer cells, and antimicrobial proteins. The first step in the innate immune system stats with the physical barrier—your skin, which keeps out vengeful microorganism. As longs as the skin doesn’t get beat up too much. But if

  • Innate Vs Adaptive Opportunity Essay

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    In module 1.3 - Innate vs. Adaptive Immunity, we have learned a partial overview of immune tolerance and autoimmunity in the section of immune responses. Immune tolerance is when the immune system tolerates self-antigens and does not attack its own body’s cells, tissues, and organs, whereas autoimmunity results in attacking its own healthy cells and tissues that could lead to various autoimmune diseases. I found Ian Mackay’s (2001) scientific journal, “Tolerance and Autoimmunity,” helpful because

  • Innate Ideas

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    Innate Ideas Throughout the passage of time, philosophers have written and discussed many topics in philosophy. Sometimes, these philosophers agree on ideas or sometimes they make their own assumptions. There are two philosophers who had different ideas concerning where innate ideas come from and how we get these types of ideas. Rene Descartes and John Locke were these two philosophers with the opposing argument on innate ideas. The place where Descartes discusses his views were in the Meditations

  • Hume And Descartes On The Theory Of Ideas

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    Hume and Descartes on The Theory of Ideas David Hume and Rene Descartes are philosophers with opposing views about the origination of ideas. Descartes believed there were three types of ideas which are, innate, adventitious and those from imagination. He stated since he exists and his idea of what a perfect being is, such as God, then God exists. Hume, on the other had, believed ideas came only from one thing, impressions. Both theories have their strengths and weaknesses but I like Hume's theory

  • Is Perception Innate?

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    and whether infants learn through experience or whether it is an innate ability will be placed under scrutiny in this essay. The ideas of size and shape constancy, motion and binocular parallaxes in regards to depth perception are the main aspects that have been researched in order to determine a conclusion to this question at hand. Within perception, there have been many key ideas as to what causes perception and whether it is innate. Batki, Baron-Cohen, Wheelwright, Connellan and Ahluwalia (2000)

  • Aristotle

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    Aristotle believed that sensory perceptions in the human soul are reflections of objects, and thoughts in consciousness are based on what we have already seen. He believed that humans have the innate power of reason, and the innate faculty of organizing things into categories and classes, but no innate ideas. No Innate Ideas Plato believed that the idea “chicken” came before the sensory world’s chicken, but Aristotle refused this theory. The form of chicken is eternal, but every chicken “flows,” meaning

  • Platos Meno

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    first that virtue is innate within the human soul. The second suggests that virtue can be taught, and the third possibility is that virtue is a gift from the gods. These ways are debated by Socrates and Meno to a very broad conclusion. Socrates poses the question that virtue may be innate within the human soul. This is to say that all people would have virtue within them, but it is only those who find it that can truly become virtuous. To prove the concept of innate understanding to Meno,

  • Paranoia

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    Socially speaking paranoia appears to be passed down from parent to child through shear exposure and environment. If certain personality traits are innate within a person, than the possibility of a genetic inclination towards paranoia does not appear way off base. This of course stems from discussion on whether or not personality is developed or innate. In almost everything somebody does, his or her personality comes through. The question of nature versu... ... middle of paper ... ...es that force

  • Personal Justice and Homicide in Scott’s Ivanhoe:

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    Personal Justice and Homicide in Scott’s Ivanhoe Abstract: Scott’s Ivanhoe reveals a conflict between our innate concept of justice as personal justice and the impersonal justice which is imposed on us by the modern nation-state. This conflict causes the split between the proper hero, who affirms the order of impersonal justice, and the dark hero, who acts according to personal justice, in Scott’s work. In Evolution and Literary Theory, Joseph Carroll provides a paradigm for the integration

  • Equality and Social Class in Pygmalion

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    Shaw's Pygmalion, the innate equality of  individuals necessitates their ability to rise from their social class. An individual's humanity necessitates social equality.  The shared human experience imposes innate equality.  A person's equality or often inequality in a social setting is often "extrinsic and subjective" (Mugglestone 379).  Also, Shaw uses Eliza's character and feeling of self worth to demonstrate the distinctions between the "undeniable facts of innate equality, and the social

  • Essay on the Deleterious Effects of Pride and Prejudice

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    The Deleterious Effects of Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen's novel, Pride and Prejudice, illustrates that behavior is innate and, for good or bad, can be influenced by society. Austen further demonstrates that behavior is alterable by focusing on two aspects of behavior; prejudice and pride. The deleterious effects of prejudice and pride and the possibility of reformation are exemplified in a story that focuses on the ideals, ceremonies, and customs of marriage. Austen's attempts to demonstrate

  • David Hume on Miracles

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    tabula rasa receives impressions which are products of immediate experience. For example, the color of the computer screen I am looking at represents an impression. Ideas, similarly, are derived from these antecedent impressions; we are not born with innate ideas, rather we achieve them from experience. There are three principles that connect ideas: resemblances, contiguity of time or place, and cause and effect (Hume, 321). Hume further advances that all reasoning concerning matters of fact are “founded

  • Nature vs. Nurture Essay

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    dictionary. Freud’s point of view on this topic is that the human development depends on nurture and nature at the same time. Freud believes that human nature contains powerful uncontrollable innate drives and repressed memories. The only way that these can happen is by nurture, because of some of the innate drives have been brought up through one’s upbringing. In a way Freud’s point of views are definitely supported by both nature and nurture. Another reason for this is because if you look at just

  • Body Language: Cultural or Universal?

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    been a long running debate as to whether body language signals and their meanings are culturally determined or whether such cues are innate and thus universal. The nature versus nurture dichotomy inherent in this debate is false; one does not preclude the other’s influence. Rather researchers should seek to address the question how much of nonverbal communication is innate and how much is culturally defined? Are there any true universal nonverbal cues or just universal tendencies modified to suit cultural

  • Truth and Goodness in Immanuel Kant and St. Thomas Aquinas

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    pure product of reason, operating by means of rational categories. Although Kant acknowledges that all knowledge originates in the intuition of the senses, the intelligibility of sense experience he attributes to innate forms of apperception and to categories inherent to the mind. The innate categories shape the “phenomena” of sensible being, and Kant claims nothing can be known or proved about the “noumena,” the presumed world external to the mind.1 Aquinas agrees that all knowledge comes through

  • Huck Finn Morality

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    and not property. Society does not agree with that thought, which also tampers with Huck’s mind telling him that he is wrong. Though Huck does not realize that his own instinct are more moral than those of society, Huck chooses to follow his innate sense of right instead of following society’s rules. In chapter 16, Huck goes through a moral conflict of whether he should turn Jim in or not. “I was paddling off, all in a sweat to tell on him; but when he says this, it seemed to kind

  • Ikea - Ingvar Kamprad

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    Ingvar kampard "Only those who are asleep make no mistakes"- Kampard It was in 1926, a child was born to a poor couple who was living in a farm near Agunnaryd, Sweden. That boy who got an innate challenging capacity of doing business, as well as a skilled decision maker. His first business was selling matches. He packs the things in his old bicycle and start selling to his neighboring houses.It was just at the age of 10. When he was 17, he performed well in his studies. So his father gave

  • Phrenology

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    110/phreno/) is based upon five key principles, which were first presented in his work The Anatomy and Physiology of the Nervous System in General, and of the Brain in Particular. First, it is understood that man’s “moral and intellectual faculties” are innate” (Sabattini, R) and that their expression depends on how the brain is organized. Secondly, he proposed that the brain is the organ responsible for all inclinations, emotions and abilities. Thirdly he stated that the brain is composed of many different