There are three philosophies which have attained sacred position in modern rational life. The Blank Slate. a loose interlingual rendition of the medieval Latin term tabula rasa. scraped tablet. normally attributed to John Locke which delves into the opposing of political position quos and societal agreements. saying chiefly that the head is like a sheet of white paper nothingness of all characters and thoughts. furnished with words through experience ; it denounced the differences seen among races. including the establishment of bondage as slaves could no longer be thought of as innately inferior. cultural groups. sexes and persons for the differences come non from the unconditioned fundamental law but from the differences in the experiences. It is so suiting to believe of the head that manner as the head is like a clean sheet of paper filled merely through experience. Yet it is safe to state that non merely see that can make full it but besides prepossessions and outlooks of the society.

Another philosophy is The Baronial Savage. normally attributed to philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. inspired by the European colonists’ find of the autochthonal in the New World ; it stated the belief that barbarians were lone. without ties of love or trueness and without any industry or art. It besides captures the belief that worlds in their natural province are selfless. peace-loving and untroubled and that negative emotions such as greed and green-eyed monster are merchandises of civilisation. a construct which debased Thomas Hobbes’ belief that adult male is of course barbarous and requires a regular system of constabulary to be resolved. Looking at it from a personal angle. I would state that I rather agree with Hobbes merely on one facet: adult male is of course barbarous ; if he isn’t. so how is it that our history has been tainted with the blood of 1000000s of people who have died because of a individual adult male who could non harness his maliciousness. i. e. Hitler. Even in our mundane life. we manage to affect upon other people our evil nature. even if in a simple manner.

But that does non intend that we need to give up our lives to leviathan control for I believe that we can alter our nature. no affair how far back we may look. As the last philosophy provinces. we are non simply machines with cogwheels and springs. we are our heads and therefore we have the ability to believe and take our ain determinations. The last philosophy. attributed to Rene Descartes. is possibly the most clever of all: The Ghost in the Machine. Our head exists because we know how to believe and the really act of making so proves it. Our bodies’ being nevertheless may be doubted for we may merely be immaterial liquors who simply daydream that we are bodied. Add to that a moral fillip: the belief that the head is a different sort of thing from the organic structure. And what makes it genuinely fascinating is the fact that philosophers argue as to when the shade enters the organic structure. during the start of the fertilisation when the sperm cell fertilizes the egg cell and creates the fertilized ovum or when it has become a fetus ready to be borne into the universe.

Surely it is an statement comparable to the inquiry. “Which came foremost. the poulet or the egg? ” Philosophically replying the inquiry would refer to another inquiry. “what is meant by ‘came first’ ? ” as all philosophical inquiries go. These philosophies have so shaped the universe that it has left fingerprints. from Walt Disney to the former president of the United States. George W. Bush. And even for a simple pupil like me who has late come across the topic. I can state that I have already thought of such constructs even without reading it before. or at least I have thought about the thought of the Baronial Savage and the Blank Slate. Yet as I read the construct of the Ghost in the Machine. I was really much in awe for I have ne’er. in my whole 16 old ages of being. idea of such a thing. And what truly entreaties to me is the fact that Descartes claims that we are our heads and that our organic structure may simply be an image we have formed as immaterial existences.

Even Buddha thought so. saying that “We are shaped by our ideas ; we become what we think…” I have long doubted the thoughts of shades and reading of such a construct. particularly in a topic such as this. makes me inquire how the philosopher conceived such an thought. Thinking of it gives me trembles as it implies that we are existences far greater than we imagined. And every bit good as it may sound. I think it entreaties to man’s narcissistic nature ; we as worlds who have done things. good and evil. seek to look for a sound account to ease our scrupless.

I can non state that the thought does non appeal to me yet I can non besides say that I do agree with it ; on the other manus. of the three philosophies. I agree the most with the philosophy of The Baronial Savage. I do believe that in our true nature. we are barbarians but that does non intend that we did non cognize how to command ourselves ; so it would look that the Native Americans. the specific race of people that the Europeans based the philosophy of The Baronial Savage on. had a better society than we did: they were less barbarian. no employment jobs and substance maltreatment. even offense was about nonexistent.

And even if there were difficult times. life was decidedly stable and predictable. And yet that in itself was the ground why adult male chose to come out of his “savage” nature ; he wanted escapade. turn and turns in his life ; he wanted to experience the bang of life. There is nil incorrect with that but for every pick there is a monetary value to pay and the monetary value we paid was high even if it remains to be seen whether it was deserving it or non. However that is non adequate ground to turn over our free will to an independent control ; making so would simply sabotage the picks we have made for our civilisation. Besides. our lives are meant to be lived to the full and whatever picks we make. we must stand by it and see it to the terminal.

Our head. no affair how it started or whatever manner it truly is. is a tool for us to populate our lives as we see fit. We must larn to tackle our true potency to do certain that whatever picks we make would bring forth positive ripplings that would be felt in the distant hereafter to assist the approaching coevalss. As Plutarch said. “The head is non a vas to be filled but a fire to be kindled. ”