Chapter 12 question 2

I will address each of these premises seperately to make things clear for the post as well as myself. The rationalilty premise says that people are capable of discovering truth through logical analysis. I agree with this one for the most part. A person has to be smart enough to put together a logical thought process so this is only true if that person is relatively smart. This is a thought that put together the idea of having a trial by jury. The perfectability premise I do not agree with. I believe we are born pure and it is our surroundings and own actions that either leads us to sin or helps us live a good life. I do think that effort and control do play a part of this though. I believe our justice system is based on this premise. The mutability premise assumes that behavior is shaped by our environmental surroundings and that the way to improve humans is to imporve our physical and psychological circumstances. I believe this premise if environment includes culture and not just weather. This stems from the idea of a universal education. I think a universal education would be impossible if you have all cultures trying to implement thier history into it. If it only pertained to math I would agree with it.