Nature can be used to describe the situation that is more of normality to a given case. In the case of human beings, their nature can not exactly be easily defined since human beings contain diverse preferences and choices. One of the reasons why it is hard to define the nature of human beings is because they have evolved through a number of stages and at times, it is not possible to define the stage of evolution a human being is in. Nature itself can be used as a standard for making judgments. Using nature as a judgmental object is a practice that started in Greek philosophy where the Middle Eastern and Western languages, as well as perspectives, were some of the highly influenced by the practice. In the present day society, zombies can be
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Against the understanding of a fixed nature of human beings, the argument of a relatively malleable nature of man has been brought up by other philosophers as well as historians and scholars from other related fields of study (McClelland, 47). Recent centuries have seen even increased arguments against fixed human nature with modernists such as Rousseau and Thomas Hobbes among others. Rousseau, for instance, stated that there is no existing knowledge of what the nature of human beings permits them to be. Postmodernists, Marxists, and Structural theorists among other theorists have also been against the claim of having an innate or rather fixed human …show more content…
In the context of a normal society, being human means being able to be normal and uphold the characteristics that are portrayed by other people in the society (Rauch, 69). However, there is a neutral definition of being human that tends to apply to all human beings regardless of their society like being intelligent, compassionate, caring. A contradiction to these characteristics makes one naturally inhuman in the eyes of people from any society. Hence, a human being can be said to be any being that that is living based on the norms and characteristics accepted under the human society. In other words, this characteristic revolves around the fact that they base their nature on what their minds create their experiences and the conscience that differentiates them from other
Against the understanding of a fixed nature of human beings, the argument of a relatively malleable nature of man has been brought up by other philosophers as well as historians and scholars from other related fields of study (McClelland, 47). Recent centuries have seen even increased arguments against fixed human nature with modernists such as Rousseau and Thomas Hobbes among others. Rousseau, for instance, stated that there is no existing knowledge of what the nature of human beings permits them to be. Postmodernists, Marxists, and Structural theorists among other theorists have also been against the claim of having an innate or rather fixed human …show more content…
In the context of a normal society, being human means being able to be normal and uphold the characteristics that are portrayed by other people in the society (Rauch, 69). However, there is a neutral definition of being human that tends to apply to all human beings regardless of their society like being intelligent, compassionate, caring. A contradiction to these characteristics makes one naturally inhuman in the eyes of people from any society. Hence, a human being can be said to be any being that that is living based on the norms and characteristics accepted under the human society. In other words, this characteristic revolves around the fact that they base their nature on what their minds create their experiences and the conscience that differentiates them from other