what is human nature?
can you destroy your human nature?
2006-10-18 02:54:22 · 7 answers · asked by hinder 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Human nature is defined as the qualities that only can be attributed to personhood. Qualities such as self awareness, moral agency, the capacity to reason are the primary qualities of human nature. Emotions, instinct and certain appetites as sex, water, and food can be equally attributed to animals. Human beings are therefore, distinct from the rest of the creatures, because of our nature of humanness.
2006-10-18 04:09:37 · answer #1 · answered by tigranvp2001 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What Does Human Nature Mean
2016-11-07 05:31:35 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For an example if a dog sees a stranger it will bark, that's dog nature, so as if a human see a stranger not easy to get along that's a human nature..
2006-10-18 02:59:58 · answer #3 · answered by Drone 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Human nature will go back to primal instincts, good vs. bad blah blah. Things like this verses most people believe it means common current society's views and not that of our own natrual instincts of life.
2006-10-18 03:13:00 · answer #4 · answered by Juleette 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Human nature is the fundamental nature and substance of humans, as well as the range of human behavior that is believed to be invariant over long periods of time and across very different cultural contexts.
Can it be destroyed? Many people will say NO. I can say that yes, it can be destroyed if we look at human nature in the context of a FREE WILL.... The issue of free will and determinism underlies much of the debate (or concepts) about human nature. Free will, or agency, refers to the ability of humans to make genuinely free choices (in some sense). As it relates to humans, the thesis of determinism implies that human choices are fully caused by internal and external forces.In this way of looking at it.. IT CAN be destroyed.. Look at Hitler... look at Pol Pot.. Look at the despotic regimes in the Middle East. Look at North Korea where I feel that human nature(particularly in North Korea) has been destroyed from birth
2006-10-18 03:02:00 · answer #5 · answered by Richard K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Instinct
2016-03-13 21:43:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
temptation. We're only human...
2006-10-18 03:01:59 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The patterns of behaviour that are inherent in humanity. You can deviate from human nature, but you cannot destroy it without destroying humanity.
2006-10-18 05:56:20 · answer #8 · answered by Cary Grant 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋