An Anthropological View On Human Nature

The western way of life aided the individual, and was much more than a lawless frontier. Westerns serve as romances of the great frontier, reminiscing on the progress and opportunity both the individual and nation had. Westerners were faced with a new opportunity bearing uncertainty and a vast importance placed upon individualism, and the principles of human nature affected the outcomes of western law, society, and government. Human nature guided the western way of life and served as the backbone of various aspects of the land seen in the laws and government. Human nature is revealed within the state of nature. The West was nothing more than a constant state of nature, which represented a state of perfect freedom and equality for westerners.

In Genesis the word of God leads humanity in the direction of self preservation, urging them to procreate, to ”Be fruitful and multiply” (Genesis 9:1), and to minimize hostility and violence among people. As Freud asserted, “Besides the instinct to preserve living substance and join it into ever larger units, there must exist another, contrary instinct seeking to dissolve those units and bring them back to their primeval, inorganic state” (Freud 77). Genesis exemplifies the struggle between the two opposing human instincts, with God acting as a moderator between them. Forms of justice are put into place in an attempt to control these drives, one example being the proclamation that “Whoever sheds the blood of a human, by a human shall that person’s blood be shed” (Genesis 9:6). The ethics and laws that develop throughout Genesis seek to “prevent the crudest excesses of brutal violence” but are unable to control “the more cautious and refined manifestations of human aggressiveness” (Freud 70). Since they cannot be completely eradicated, the scriptures instead play into the more negative aspects of human nature, especially narcissism, and manipulate them into a force for conservation rather than annihilation.

Human nature by essence has been the cause of many entrepreneurial paths, all follow to known the essence itself behind of what we conceive as life. Moreover it’s righteous description and abstract content, that many great man has humbly studied and that for centuries have made a path closely enough to the understanding of it, yet far from the light, it seems to be and unsolvable question that gives us a “Raison d'être” to our existence in this world.

Today, MSC visited Jeffrey at his Dau Habilitation program located on 1221 E14th street, Brooklyn, NY. MSC greeted the receptionist and she called his Day Hab. Supervisor Yocheved Mordkontech. She guided MSC to his classroom and Jeffrey was happy to see his MSC. Jeffrey asked MSC how she was doing and MSC stated good. Jeffrey was dressed appropriatelt in a green shirt, jeans and sneakers. Jeffrey had a clean hair cut. He told MSC that she spoke to his sister and is a little worried about here. He also worries about missing medical appointments. MSC informed him not to worry, Marie Rose will make sure he attends each medical appointments in a timely manner. Yocheved stated that Jeffrey has been doing good. He has been cooperative and he has improved in being courteous of others.

An individual becomes a victim following an event resulting in an injury, a loss in some manner, as well as incidents creating a hardship (Karmen, 2016). A victimologist studies the impacts of various factors following an incident where an individual has been victimized. There are several perspectives a victimologist may study an incident, this week the question asked for a reference to the anthropological, historical, and economic perspectives as they would relate to a stabbing. An anthropological perspective examines situations through comparison to other regions of the world as well as in events that occurred in the deep past. The historical perspective examines past events in an effort to understand current events. Finally, the economic

One of the most predominant themes in literature is the duality of human nature. According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary, dualism is a view of human beings as constituted of two irreducible elements. Many pieces of literature concentrate on how every human possesses an animalistic and barbarous nature. In the novel The Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, and the short story William Wilson by Edgar Allan Poe, the idea of duality is explored deeply and is one of the main themes of these works.

The purpose of this essay is to outline and evaluate at least three psychological perspectives of human behaviour. The three approaches that will be summarised are humanistic, social learning theory and the Biological approach. They will also be criticised and compared to one another. A brief description on psychology will occur, and there will also be a short summarisation on some key early influences of psychology, from its origins in philosophy.

A sociological perspective on human behavior is connected to the society as a whole. It invites us to look for the connections between the behavior of individuals and the structures of the society in which they live. (Appendix 1)

American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders: DSM-5 (5th ed.). Arlington, VA: American Psychiatric Publishing.

The true nature of humanity has been a debated topic by scholars for centuries. The topic has influenced many of the great works created during the 18th century. The writers of these works either had an optimistic or pessimistic view of mans true nature. This view determined how they perceived the creation of the state and its consequences on human nature. One of these influential thinkers was Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a Genevan philosopher. Rousseau had an optimistic view of human nature and believed man was good until introduced to society. In his work On the Social Contract, Rousseau creates a guidebook that provided the necessities for a legitimate government. In this work he stated that there needed to be an imported lawgiver to provide the state with just laws. In this text it is apparent that there are paradoxes between the law giver and the public that he is creating laws for because the lawgiver is creating laws for a society he isn 't even a part of thus mandating rules he sees fit.

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This week we have learned about four different views of human nature. The two views that I found most interesting were the the traditional western view and the Darwinian challenge to the traditional western view. In the Darwinian challenge, Charles Darwin argued that humans developed from nonhuman animals. The strengths of Darwin’s arguments are that he used fossils to support his claims. The fossils are real evidence that everyone can look at and examine and they do show how humans have developed over the years. The weaknesses of his arguments are that he undermined the idea that living things and their parts are designed for a purpose. The next argument I found interesting was the the traditional western view. In this view Plato argues that

Nature is what you learn and develop from your surrounding so when you see other people doing something everyday you start doing what they doing good or bad. Because they grew up around it they start to think its ok and will start to do it Human nature, fundamental dispositions and traits of humans. Theories about the nature of humankind form a part of every culture. In the West, one traditional question centred on whether humans are naturally selfish and competitive (see Thomas Hobbes; John Locke) or social and altruistic (see Karl Marx; Émile Durkheim). A broader problem is that of determining which ostensibly fundamental human dispositions and traits are natural and which are the result of some form of learning or socialization. Recent research in genetics, evolutionary biology, and cultural anthropology suggests that there is a complex interaction between genetically inherited factors and developmental and social factors. Basic drives shared with other primates are related to food, sex, security, play, and social status. Language use by humans is now generally recognized as genetically enabled, through the acquisition of any specific language also requires appropriate environmental stimuli. Some common behavioral differences between genders (e.g., regarding aggression) also appear to have a genetic basis, as does sexual orientation. See also behaviour genetics; Homo sapiens; personality; philosophical anthropology; sociobiology human nature includes the core

Human nature is a wonderful thing. It allows us to live with ourselves, vilify others, and justify amazing scenarios. For a lot of reasons, our biology is built on self-preserving ourselves. If you see someone getting made fun of they always have an excuse, or if something goes wrong it is somebody else's fault. I’ve seen this a lot in my day-to-day, especially in football. It’s astonishing in football how we watch film of every play, but interpretations can still change reality. For instance, one player may say he didn’t miss a block, he just didn’t think he was supposed to block that person. While both sound bad, missing the block entails trying and failure, while not knowing is a more correctable error. During the course of film study, I found myself trying to convince myself that I was making the more correctable error almost every time. Even after watching the film that showed different. After consciously realizing this, it becomes more easy to see through other people’s excuses in similar situations. This idea of self-presentation not only helps me deal with myself as a better football player, but also presents myself to others in a better light. Another big concept in my everyday happened almost every single hour. Daydreaming. Where I would imagine things that might have happened but didn’t. Some of my earliest memories growing up is me always envisioning a scenario where a bad guy would strike out of nowhere and I would be there to save the day. While my “what if?”

The theme of this course is theories of human nature, theories of human nature is an historical scope of philosophy. Theories of human nature provides a philosophical analysis into human nature through the investigation of issues, including the mind and body, perceptions and conception, freedom and determinism, death and immortality, the relation of the human to nature and the divine, and reason and emotion (Professor Galgan, Course Syllabus). The two articles written by Dr. Galgan, “Infinity and Cosmology: an Indirect Approach” and “The Compassionate Gods of Technology” directly conform and embody the theme of this course, theories of human nature.