Tabula Rasa Reversal?
See baby eat. See baby burp. See baby turn over. See baby make moral judgments based on a congenital code that enables him or her to distinguish right from wrong?
The theory of the tabula rasa or blank slate pre-dates the 18th century English philosopher John Locke by more than two thousand years, back to Aristotle and other ancients and through Aquinas but Locke is generally credited with postulating that all human life is born with a moral sense as naked as the body, free of evil, free of good, just a plain, old, natural blank slate ready for good or evil nurturing that will determine the individual’s thinking. . .
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