The Human Psyche, By Michel De Montaigne And Sir Francis Bacon

Many great authors have wrote about the bonds of kinship and how it attains to one’s life. Poets write sonnets about relationships as well as the pride and passion that belonging to some sort of union or society stirs up in a person. These works are of grave importance as they express the feelings and success that mankind achieves when we unite together. This isn’t to be undermined by the fact, however, that nothing in this world would get done unless people went about them as an individual. Notice here, is used the phrase, “as an individual” and not simply “alone”. “Alone” is a common enough word, though so rarely used in the right context. Humans believe it to be a sad word and in some ways, I suppose,

In the excerpt “Character is what you are in the dark” by Dwight Lyman Moody, can mean many different things. One being, “you are most yourself when no one is watching”, another one also being, “dark and troubled times bring out a person's true nature”, and “your true nature is on the inside”. This quote can or cannot apply to the play of “Romeo and Juliet” by Shakespeare. A way that the excerpt “Character is what you are in the dark” by Dwight Lyman Moody, can relate to the play is by, “You are most yourself when no one is watching”, meaning in the play of “Romeo and Juliet” that they both did act differently when they were alone.

According to Durkheim’s work The Dualism of Human Nature and Its Social Conditions (DHN), a man has a dual nature which is made up of the body (individual) and the soul (social). He sheds light on this by citing post-Durkheim theories which he does not agree with and which do not solve the problem of this dual nature. Durkheim also uses The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life (EFRL) to discuss the religious aspect of the body and soul. Upon reading, it is discovered that as society evolves, so does this “dual nature.”

Reading folder one: Francis Bacon, Aphorisms. Question One: How does Bacon propose to find truth? What are the strengths and weaknesses of his inductive method?

In the world of sex, drugs, and baby cloning you are going to be in many situations where you feel like the world we live in should be different. In the story Brave New World, they had sex with multiple partners along with a very bad use of drugs.

Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides, inner struggles are paralleled with each setting. Taking place in the twentieth century each setting plays a significant role in explaining a theme in the novel. Fleeing Greece in a time of war and entering Detroit Michigan as immigrants parallel later events to the next generation of kin fleeing Grosse Pointe Michigan to San Francisco. These settings compliment a major theme of the novel, society has always believed to be missing something in their life and attempted to fill the missing piece.

Chris McCandless probably wasn’t the first to think, “When you want something in life, you just gotta reach out and grab it.” In the book Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer and the short story “Nature” by Ralph Waldo Emerson, they both have the belief that by living off of nature and preserving it, the closer one will come to understanding the nature of nature.

Humans live their day-to-day life searching for something that makes them truly happy. What if someone were to tell you that what you thought was true happiness was all an illusion. In a Brave New World by Aldous Huxley people in the world state are conditioned and drugged up by soma to not experience true happiness.

According to the book, The Humanistic Tradition by Gloria K. Fiero, in the Babylonian society, women were often considered inferior compared to men. The book states that women were considered less intelligent and less physically capable of performing the required need of men. The book also states that women were basically a property aspect of the men. The women were in retrospect, slaves. They were considered inferior, had little to zero rights, and was expected to do as they were commanded by their husband or father. The women of the era were kept inside by their fathers until the day that their husband was chosen for them and then the women were pretty much transferred from one house to another. Even though the women was considered almost as a property her work was not unnoticed. Her work around the house, so to say, were noticed daily.

It is in the enjoyment of the aesthetic beauty of nature that humanity glorifies God. John Locke identified that God teaches us about himself through our human capacities, primarily our sensory experiences. Jonathan Edwards takes this one step further in theorizing that it is through humanity’s enjoyment of the beauty of God’s creation, i.e. nature, that we capture the glory of God. Edwards is one of the few theologians that make beauty a central and prominent characteristic in Christianity and humanity’s relationship with God. He says that God reveals God’s self through the wonders and terrors of the natural world, appealing to humanity’s basic human capacities. In this manner, Edwards believes that humanity’s purpose is to glorify God and the way to do this is to delight in God’s creation. Humans have the capacity to delight and appreciate the beauty of God’s splendor, a faculty that not only provides us

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Political Philosopher who was born in Geneva, Switzerland. Geneva is a small but beautiful city in Switzerland. Jean’s mother died so he lived with his aunt and uncle. His dad was running from law and fled Switzerland alone. At 16 Jean left Switzerland. He traveled to many European countries until he settled in France. He Made a new system of numerical music notation. Jean went on to create book called the social contract.

Man is created in the image and likeness of God. The purpose of his existence is to reach his full potential, that being to live a life that is more human, more Christian a life that is similar to that of Christ's. Thus, our existence revolves upon loving and inculcating our knowledge in the minds of others. These Christian concepts is essential in Fr. De Torre's discussion of the perfectibility of man through education.

“It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.”

Human Nature is defined by Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary as "the fundamental dispositions and traits of humans." Throughout the world, however, there are many different groups of people, all with varying personalities and characteristics. One recent article that brought up this issue was What's Really Human? The trouble with student guinea pigs. by Sharon Begley. Begley states that "given the difference in culture between the U.S. and East Asia, no one claims the American way is universal." This suggests that one's environment, not one's nature, shapes one's characteristics and features. This separation of cultures also leads to a different view of good and evil throughout the world; murder is generally bad and charity good, but not everyone may care about murder or think charity necessary. The only way to find human nature may be to look at the time before the first cultures developed. Thomas Hobbes referred to this time as the state of nature, where every man competes for resources, driven on by greed. This greed is considered to be a bad trait by today's society, making human nature apparently evil. I believe that humans are evil in nature and need parameters to be good because of the writings of twentieth century authors, Chinese philosophers between the Qin and Han dynasties, and pre-Enlightenment philosophers.

Rousseau starts his discourse with the quote, “What is natural has to be investigated not in beings that are depraved, but in those that are good according to nature” (Aristotle. Politics. II). It is this idea that Rousseau uses to define his second discourse. Rousseau begins his story of human nature by “setting aside all the facts” (132). Rousseau believes the facts of the natural state of humanity are not necessary to determine the natural essence of human nature, and adding facts based on man’s condition in society does not show man’s natural condition. The facts don’t matter for Rousseau because to understand the essence of human nature requires looking to how man is in a completely natural state. Since man is no longer in this state,