IB Philosophy: Human Nature
What is Human Nature?
Distinguishing characteristics (thinking, acting and feeling) which humans tend to have naturally, without the influence of culture.
What is an Existentialist view on Human Nature?
Existentialists reject all ideas about human nature and instead focus on the individual, on there uniqueness.
What is Rousseau's view on Human Nature?
Humans are born innocent, naturally good but arts and sciences cause human degeneracy. Humans are self-interested beings but nurture, not nature, is decisive in forming the human mind.
What is Hobbes view of Human Nature?
Humans are equal in the sense that each is able to kill another and they act out of self-interest. Morality is a form of social control that is necessary for peace, security and happiness. We acquire knowledge through the senses.
What are Marxists views on Human Nature?
Humans are natural producers and historical conditions determine what and how they produce. Humans are also species beings.
What is Plato's view of Human Nature?
Plato believed that human condition is marked by ignorance and that happiness is attained through justice. Our nature is essentially rational trough reason we can have knowledge of true reality which is separate from the physical world (Theory of Forms)
What is Behaviourism?
The idea that all things that organisms do, including acting, thinking and feeling, can and should be regarded as, and analysed in terms of, behaviours.
