Do you believe in the rationality,
perfectibility, and mutability premises? What social institutions and practices
are based on these beliefs?
I am torn on these. I tend to go both ways on mutability.
Mutability “assumes that our human behavior is shaped by environmental factors,
and that the way to improve humans is to improve their physical and
psychological circumstances.” I think as humans we make our own choices, and
only we can allow whether our environmental factors can impact us, however I
think it does depend on the person but as people we have choices.
On perfectibility, I do believe in this. I was
raised a Christian, and my religious beliefs are similar to the perfectibility
premise. I think everyone has choices and can make effort to choose to do good
over bad.
On Rationality, I agree that most people make
their decisions based on certain sound judgments. I think the average person
can definitely decipher the truth through logical analysis.
The church is the main practice that comes to
mind when thinking about who practices these premises, this is something I have
experienced personally in my church.
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I like the way you look at mutability premise. "I think as humans we make our own choices, and only we can allow whether our environmental factors can impact us, however I think it does depend on the person but as people we have choices". The only question that come up in my mind, why then we, people, tend to do what majority does? Yes, we do have choices, but we choose what is popular in our environment.
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