John Locke's book, "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding," presents the concept of Tabula Rasa or blank slate, which states that the human mind receives knowledge through the experience without any pre-existing innate ideas when they were born. ... The society's belief that the black people should be enslaved because they are inferior subspecies of human permits him to question that belief during his adventures with Jim. ... Huck's adventures with Jim opened his eyes that slaves are humans; they have feelings and entitled with rights. ...

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He argued that fundamental concepts structure human experience, and that reason is the source of morality. In one of his well-known works, "Groundwork for a Metaphysics of Morals, " Kant's goal is to develop a clearer understanding of moral principles, so that people may better avert distractions. ... Through the laws of nature, humans have an innate necessity to seek peace in order to survive. In order to survive, humans have to relinquish a few of their natural rights in order to gain security and sovereign power. ... Similar to Hobbes, Kant plans to explain in his essay "Groundwork for...

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