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What are the instincts or human natures that we share? Will we understand us better if we try to think about where they come from?
Despite the personality and individual differences,we do have solid instincts ,or human nature.
What are these natures generally?
Where do they come from?
As a freshman here,I am quite exciting and thrilled to learn and communicate freely ,I am expecting to learn your opinons
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Barry Palmer 50+
Loving and hateful.
Industrious and lazy.
Peaceful and warlike.
Cautious and bold.
Deliberate and spontaneous.
Simple and complex.
It is very difficult just figuring out who I am, astronomically more difficult to figure out what I have in common with everyone else.
And yet, in so many discussions, so many of us are quick to say this or that is human nature, as though this is common knowledge. Perhaps that is part of human nature too.
Discovering human nature is one of the big questions, and science has only begun to address it. If science can ever discover the answer, it will change every aspect of human conduct: philosophy, ethics, economics, politics, education, parenting, etc.
"Will we understand us better if we try to think about where they come from?" Absolutely.
frank lee
Perhaps these Complexity and conradictions come from the millions of years of human development and history.
Each of us is the accumulated result of the human race
All kinds of situations ,environments and envents through hundreds of thousands of ancesstors has contributed to make who we are today
Is this the souce of our complexity and contradictions,and irration？
Barry Palmer 50+
A big part of defining human nature is determining what we have in common with other species and how we differ from other species. Exactly what makes us distinctly human. Is it qualitative, or are we basically a great ape with a high IQ?
Addressing these questions through science is a huge leap forward compared to the notion that humans are distinctly different from all animals because humans and only humans have immortal souls. Whether or not we have have souls, these questions should be addressed by science.
frank lee
frank lee
The willing to cooperate
sympathy
the passion to improve ,invent and make arogress
the pursuit of equlity and freedom
the pursuit of justice
the sense of service and responsibility
the pursuit of meaning
Which of those are deeply rooted in human being,
whichi are not ?
What else features do you think we share ?
Stewart Gault 30+
Gerald O'brian 50+
One should keep in mind that instincts are never purely genetic ; they're always a result of how genes respond to their environment. We don't expect to see human nature outside human societies, in the wild.