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15 Μαρ 2021 · Thus understood, human nature is the set of human features or processes that remain after subtraction of those picked out by concepts of the non-natural, concepts such as “culture”, “nurture”, or “socialisation”.
Human nature comprises the fundamental dispositions and characteristics—including ways of thinking, feeling, and acting —that humans are said to have naturally. The term is often used to denote the essence of humankind, or what it ' means ' to be human.
Human Nature. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 July 2023. Grant Ramsey. Summary. Human nature is frequently evoked to characterize our species and describe how it differs from others. But how should we understand this concept? What is the nature of a species?
Philosophy and the Science of Human Nature pairs central texts from Western philosophical tradition (including works by Plato, Aristotle, Epictetus, Hobbes, Kant, Mill, Rawls, and Nozick) with recent findings in cognitive science and related fields.
18 Ιαν 2024 · From races to sex and gender, from medical therapy to disability, from biotechnological enhancement to transhumanism, all these hot debates—surveyed here in an accessible, concise, yet detailed fashion—presuppose a robust account of human nature that, however, science and philosophy are unable to provide.
The “nature” in “human nature” fosters unproductive essentialist thinking, epitomized in the adage “a tiger cannot change its stripes.” Universalist, fixist, and teleological perspectives each erode epistemic reasoning and blur the distinction between normative and descriptive justification.
1 Οκτ 2013 · Many eighteenth-century British theorists of human nature commonly employed the discourse of natural philosophy to achieve a more systematic and observation-based approach to their subject. My goal here is to investigate how the adoption of scientific discourse and the adaptation of the methods of natural philosophy, including natural history ...
