The Science of Human Nature
Overview
The revival of science during the European Renaissance included a renewed interest in the workings of the human mind. In the eighteenth century, there were two mai...
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Human Nature
Debates over the nature of human nature have characterized social theory since it emerged in the Renaissance. As Thomas Sowell has argued, these debates generally take two forms: the opti...
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Human Nature
Many ethical judgments make appeals to human nature either as their foundation or as their standard. In the strongest case ethics is argued to be based on human nature; in other instances...
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Human Nature
The phrase "human nature" is multiply ambiguous. Some early modern thinkers such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau tended to mean by it the supposed na...
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Throughout the course of time, many brilliant philosophers have explored the concept of human nature. The question, what motivates humanity has been taken into consideration in the composure of virtu...
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Mankind is basically good, but society can easily bring out the evil due to the way humanity has adapted to the generally neutral universe. With each birth of a person, an innocent life is added to o...
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