Week 8- Question 2

Do you believe in the rationality, perfectibility, and mutability premises? What social institutions and practices are based on these beliefs?

I think that the rationality, perfectibility, and mutability premises are true. I’m the type of person to always see the good in any situation because situations can always be worse than it is. Since these premises are for the progression of human kind then I think that it is true. Not everyone is the same and there are a select few that contradict these premises but they’re problems might have other factors that keep them from making these premises true i.e. psychological problems and different types of cultural upbringing and religion. Some institutions and practices (rationality) are universities, schools, and the judicial system, political system, child/parent influence to an extreme extent because the child trusts the parents unconditionally to make sound decisions for them, (perfectibility) religion, (mutability) peer relationships, classism, social structure, elementary middle high schools.