Human Nature: Good or evil?
By Bluerain25
@Bluerain25 (812)
Philippines
August 9, 2010 11:05pm CST
Human nature is defined as the concept that there is a set of inherent distinguishing characteristics, including ways of thinking, feeling, and acting, that humans tend to have.
The question of what causes thses distinguishing characteristics of humanity and how fixed human nature is has complications in ethics, politics and theology because they are seen as providing standards or norms that humans can use when judgig how best to live. The complex implications of such discussion are often themes which are dealt with in art.
Now the question is, Is human naturally good or evil?
Philosophers have been pondering this for centuries but to my own opinion, we are all born good. No one is born bad. Or at least mostly good but can be blinded by greed and selfishness, envy and jealousy.
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6 responses
@natnickeep (2336)
• United States
10 Aug 10
I would think just like everything else we are born with a balance of good and evil. There has to be bad to know what good is. We have to make mistakes to learn lessons. I don't think any one action in it's self can be purely good or purely evil. Everything has a median somewhere in between. And all the little things make up one big picture. I think it's impossible for us to ever be one or the other.
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@ice0211350 (29)
• Philippines
10 Aug 10
As John Locke said "Tabula Rasa", blank state.
for me human by nature is neutral it all starts in a blank piece until such time it learns and adopt all sorts of information that he is able to process with his brain and thus he is affected by what kind of environment he has.
Sets of experiences makes him who he is and shows what kind of person he is potential of, whether evil or good, but i know that humans has a great capacity of reasoning, he can reason out his choices, its just a matter of choices we make to let others visualize what kind of side we are, we are neutral by nature as a human.
@ice0211350 (29)
• Philippines
10 Aug 10
wrong info above,I was pertaining to Aristotle rather than John Locke!..sorry guys.. :)
@Tauheed127 (44)
• India
11 Aug 10
I Think that we should not care what world decides for you But it is what you decide for yourself, if you believe You are good then you are good,,And if you decide you are Bad then You are bad
@hotwheels20 (400)
• India
13 Aug 10
I usually don't care about this. It is our nature and i don't think it can't be evil. As it is present in each one of us, one one mush care about it.
@figurativeme (1089)
• Philippines
10 Aug 10
There is another opinion or thinking that man is born a tabula rasa and that it is the environment that makes man good or evil. I would like to think so, too, as this would make us makers of our own lives. But life is complex and we are not certain of the future, but at least, the choice is still ours.
