Nature versus nurture
Psychologist have different views in term of the debates between human was shaped by nature or nurture. The question whether genes or environment most dominant in shaping human behavior. What is the cause of the difference in human behavior? Why humans are different in behavior? These are question s that always asked by human as general and specifically by psychologist and philosophers. Nature-nurture problem was an old issue also known as with different names such as “nativism-empiricism” and “heredity-environment” (Dember & Bagwell, 1985).
According to Fatimah Abdullah (2011), the Western Psychology believed that humans have no choice in the way they behave. They significantly stressed on the role of heredity even though there are lots of behaviors that are clearly influenced by the environmental and upbringing rather than caused by genes and biological etiology. This kind of believe behavior is forced by nature are from the …show more content…
So when I have proportioned him and breath into him of My[created] soul, then fall down to him in prostration.” This verses show that, Allah will not created human with soul if human is either shaping by nature or nurture. The combination of body and soul makes human has thought, feelings and behavior that can make humans are different with one another.
According to Mohyuddin Hashimi (2009), “Islam does not presuppose any inherent wickedness of human nature”. Humans who commit bad deeds are not because of their nature. Baby was born is totally innocent. Islam do emphasize humans also are shaping by nature called fitrah. (30:30) “So direct your face toward the religion, inclining to truth. [Adhere to] the fitrah of Allah upon which He created [all] people. No change should be there be in the creation of Allah. That is the correct religion, but most of the people do not