What is Human Nature? This question has been asked throughout generations of philosophers and, yet, today Philosophers still do not have an exact answer. They have created multiple answers and continually have this debate as to which is correct. Throughout this philosophy course, we have learned a great deal about different philosophers’ opinions about what human nature is. That being said, we all have formed our own beliefs to which of these philosophers are creating a more persuasive argument. Human Nature does not exist and is developed through interactions with family members when infants and expands to those around us as we become sociable with our peers. In order to give the best understanding of this argument, one must understand
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He does not take into account emotion, which, problematically, many people use as a means of determining what a meaningful life is. Taylor explains in his book The Ethics of Authenticity,
“The general feature of human life that I want to evoke is its fundamentally dialogical character. We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining an identity, through our acquisition of rich human languages of expression…No one acquires the languages needed for self-definition on their own. We are introduced to them through exchanges with others who matter to us – what George Herbert Mead called ‘significant others’. The genesis of the human mind is in this sense not ‘monological,’ not something each accomplishes on his or her own, but dialogical” (Taylor 33).
When human beings are born, they have no sense of the world. They are blank slates that come into this world needing to be taught how to behave and think. The first influence of this nature is family. Family is a term that engages not only mothers and fathers, but whomever the child lives with and loves. This could be grandparents, foster parents, adoptive parents, etc. Family teaches the essential elements of human nature through their actions and their own
He does not take into account emotion, which, problematically, many people use as a means of determining what a meaningful life is. Taylor explains in his book The Ethics of Authenticity,
“The general feature of human life that I want to evoke is its fundamentally dialogical character. We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining an identity, through our acquisition of rich human languages of expression…No one acquires the languages needed for self-definition on their own. We are introduced to them through exchanges with others who matter to us – what George Herbert Mead called ‘significant others’. The genesis of the human mind is in this sense not ‘monological,’ not something each accomplishes on his or her own, but dialogical” (Taylor 33).
When human beings are born, they have no sense of the world. They are blank slates that come into this world needing to be taught how to behave and think. The first influence of this nature is family. Family is a term that engages not only mothers and fathers, but whomever the child lives with and loves. This could be grandparents, foster parents, adoptive parents, etc. Family teaches the essential elements of human nature through their actions and their own