Life can go on because man is able to forget the events which took place in his past and also in his previous births. If he would remember everything that happened in every birth, he would not be able to live on in peace!
Maybe we had lived during a world war! May be we had lived under a mad king who was guided and emboldened by his bad minsters! Maybe we had suffered dying during an epidemic or pandemic in the past.
Thankfully we don't remember any of them any more! So we are able to live now!
Tabula Rasa
“Tabula rasa” is the theory that individuals are born without built-in mental content. All their knowledge comes from experience and perception.
The proponents of the Tabula rasa thesis favor the “nurture” side of the Nature vs Nurture debate, when it comes to aspects of one’s personality, social and emotional behavior, and intelligence.
The term in Latin equivalent to the English “blank slate” or “erased slate”. The word comes from the Roman tabula the wax tablet used for writing notes. The writings were erased or “blanked” by heating the wax and then smoothing it to give a tabula rasa.
Traces of the idea that came to be called the tabula rasa appear as early as the writings of Aristotle. He wrote the first textbook of Psychology in De Anima or On the Soul, Book III, chapter 4.
However the notion of the mind as a blank slate went largely unnoticed for more than 1,000 years.
In the 11th century, the theory of tabula rasa was developed more clearly by the Islamic philosopher, Ibn Sina. He argued that the “human intellect at birth is rather like a tabula rasa, a pure potentiality that is actualized through education and comes to know”.
The knowledge is attained through familiarity with objects in this world from which one abstracts universal concepts.
This is developed through a syllogistic method of reasoning; ” Observations lead to prepositional statements, which when compounded lead to further abstract concepts.”
“Tabula rasa” is the theory that individuals are born without built-in mental content. All their knowledge comes from experience and perception. The proponents of the Tabula rasa thesis…
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