Humans are indeed hostile and aggressive rather than being compassionate by nature. This is because the act of compassion from humans is relatively their first instinct. Compassion is a feeling of deep affinity and sorrow for another who is stricken by misfortune. Empathy is at times confused with compassion. This is because empathy is the instinctive and sentimental experience of another person’s feelings. There are three elements of compassion. They are self-kindness, common humanity and mindfulness. Self-kindness is often referred to as a way of self-compassion. Common humanity reflects on embracing self-compassion. To be mindfulness means to observe your thoughts and feelings from a distance, without giving a negative or positive judgement. …show more content…
They include physical violence, verbal hostility, nonverbal intimidation, and passive aggressive. Physical violence is the act of violence that partakes with the motive to harm someone. This usually wounds up in the result of a weapon being put to use, death and even someone’s hands. Verbal hostility is the behavior of bullying, put-downs, and/or sending threats. Nonverbal intimidation is when a person is threatened through violence. Lastly, passive aggression is the unintended way of articulate dissatisfaction.
Many people believe humans are also hostile and aggressive, but what they don’t know is that it is possible to be aggressive without being hostile. It is also possible to be hostile without being aggressive. Aggressive ability has been known for 25,000 years from our fellow hunters/gatherers. This has been popular between the Greek, Egyptian, and Roman societies.
In 1986, a party of famous behavioral scientists met in a place in Seville, Spain. They deliberated the origin of human aggression. From there they then came to the decision that not only the hydraulic model was inaccurate but also, there seemed to be no scientific proof of basis for the judgement that humans are naturally aggressive and belligerent. Theory predictions have become huge in the psychology world. Theories such as venting aggressive energy should make us less aggressive have been
Lama starts his chapter with his meaning of compassion. He shares that most “understand it mainly in the terms of empathy- our ability to enter into and, to some extent, share others’ suffering.” (Lama, 538). He describes compassion to be somewhat natural for humans but, must be continuously worked on in order to reach “great compassion” which “causes the one who is compassionate to dedicate themselves entirely to helping others overcome both their suffering and the causes of their suffering.” ( Lama, 538). However, he explains that
In our world, I see many people that lack the ability to show compassion. They can be so selfish when they should be more selfless. Even I admit it, I am selfish sometimes and don't help others when they may need it. For this reason, I believe that compassion should be a human right. Many people will see a person or an animal in distress and think, “I don't need to help them; some other generous person will.” But in most cases, nobody ends up helping the distressed person or animal because every person thinks “it’s not their job to help” or “somebody else will do it.” I believe a right of compassion will make it human nature to help others without second
What is compassion? It has two components. One component of compassion means to put yourself in another person’s shoes, and ask yourself, What if I were that person? How would I feel? So, compassion means to develop an awareness of the suffering in another person. Another component of compassion is self-compassion, having compassion doesn’t always have to be putting everyone else before you, sometimes compassion can mean putting yourself first. Throughout generations, compassion has played an important role in many people, it’s a natural instinct within all of us. We show compassion towards our loved ones, when confronted with someone in pain, we
Within the two essays On Compassion by Barbara Lazear Ascher and On Dumpster Diving by Lars Eighner, the idea of living poor is presented as a central theme. Do earthly possessions and abundance of money really make you rich? Or in reality, are you really poor because you're focusing more on self-involvement rather than compassion and thoughtfulness towards other individuals? According to dictionary.com, the definition of poverty is the state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support; condition of being poor. Of these two essays, On Compassion is more effective to its purpose.
To me, compassion is something important to avoiding anger and hate. To be compassionate is to help those that need it to carry on. To me, showing compassion means to show someone kindness without any ulterior motives. Compassion is to show someone that you care about what happens to them, and how they feel. Being compassionate is to be friendly to the people around you, rather than having an attitude. To me, Compassion is something special that can change someone's heart, and how they see the world.
In Barbara Asher’s essay “On Compassion” the two women were both compelled by different motives; one was fear and the other was compassion. The first woman with her child waiting at the street crossing was terrified of the scraggly looking African American man starring at her child. So out of terror Asher says the women was “…bearing the dollar like a cross” which means she was holding it away from and her child as if trying to tell the man to stay back without speaking. Also the woman tightly gripped the handle of her stroller, going into defense mode. This brings the readers to believe that this was a racial issue and quite stereotypical, just a middle class woman walking with her blonde haired baby when approached by a different colored
In conclusion, psychological aggression affects behaviors on all people. Some people are more prone to it than others. There are suggestions that can help people to be overcome with aggression, but with complexity of aggression causes and the difficulty of controlling them (Myers, 2012).
Freud believes that aggression is a primal instinct, and civilization thwarts this instinct, making man unhappy. Civilized society controls man's tendency toward aggression through rules and laws and the presence of authority. These mechanisms are put in place to guarantee safety and happiness for all individuals in a society. However, the necessity of suppressing the aggressive drive in m...
Altruism and empathy are words heard often, but very few know the true meaning of these words or how to display such qualities. It has been argued by philosophers, psychologist, sociologist and many others since seemingly the dawn of time what humankinds true nature is. Are we born with the innate inclination for good, for bad or somewhere in between? In On Kindness by Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor they discuss the human capability for kindness and the different ways in which kindness has been displayed and interpreted over the years. Much of what their book discusses can be related to the stories shared by Rebecca Solnit in, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster. Though after reading these
The field of psychology has opened different hypothesis from a variety of theories with the aim of studying the behaviour of humans being as a result they concluded with five psychological perspectives. Behaviourist, Biological, Psychodynamic, Cognitive and Humanistic perspectives are the deduction after a depth study of mental activity associate to human behaviour. In this essay I will be comparing two psychological perspectives according to aggressive behaviour.
We feel compassionate towards our family, friends, pets, and even complete strangers. My initial recollection of this trait was at an extremely young age. The way my mom rushed to my aid when I fell of my bed, my dad wiped away my tears when I wrecked my bike, and my grandparents smiled while they whisked me up after being pushed down by older cousins, are all my earliest memories of compassion. I have always very naturally received and given this trait. For this reason, I believe it was very simple for me to identify it in in the readings. One reading that encompasses this trait is Shakespeare’s King Lear. Kent, King Lear’s loyal man, had the utmost compassion for his king. When King Lear began to fall into illness and insanity, Kent remained by his side. After being betrayed by his daughters, King Lear even banished his dear Kent. Kent very well could have left, just as the king’s daughters did. Instead, he disguised himself and began to work for the king again, stating, “…to serve him truly that will put me in trust; to love him that is honest; to converse with him that is wise, and says little” (Shakespeare, 1994, 1.12-15). Although King Lear was at a very low part of his life, and began taking it out on those around him, Kent continued to show him compassion. With the examples given above, it seems as though compassion should exist closer to the positive side of the
1. Aggression and Violence, social interactionists perspectives. , Richard B. Felson and James T. Tedeschi 1993
Aggressive behavior is exhibited in individuals who present themselves in a very violent or hostile manner. Aggression is commonly linked with frustration and is a behavioral disorder that has various classifications. This factor makes it easy to confuse this disorder with different behavioral problems. There are different types of aggression that have different levels of severity. The website Study.com breaks down aggression into a few subcategories. The first subcategory is referred to as proactive aggressive behavior. According to Study.com, “proactive aggressive behaviors are calculated and planned actions that have some motive other than harming someone.” This means that proactive aggressive behaviors express feelings such as anger, frustration, superiority, etc in a pre-calculated manner to release built up tension. An individual's emotional needs motivate them to exert proactive aggressive behaviors. For example, bullying is a form of proactive aggression. Bullying allows the antagonist to feel superior to their victim and involves a lot of planning. The antagonist already knows who their target is, why they chose their target, and when they are going to torment them. The main thing to know about proactive aggressive behavior is that the individual who exhibits such behavior has a decent amount of control over their actions.The next sub-category is the complete opposite and is referred to as reactive
The scientific study of violence in human says that everyone has, what scientists call, a “Seat of aggression” known as the limbic system. This area is located low in the central brain which is regulated by the brain’s frontal lobes. The two different areas communicate by sending chemical transmitters and hormones. One of them is called serotonin which heightens aggression in humans. Scientifically, humans have found that aggression in humans is natural but just because violence is scientifically natural does not mean it has to be socially innate. Violent behavior is “A response to particular sorts of provocation or stimulation,” therefore, focusing on interpersonal violence, aggression is caused by an unfavorable interaction with another human being or group. To then find the origin of violence, on a social level, the question of what the root is of unfavorable interactions between individuals and groups needs to be answered. The answer: the source of violence comes from tribalism and pressure.
Aggression is any form of angry or violent emotions or behaviors. This can be expressed in varying degrees. Accidental aggression is typically unintentional and is the result of carelessness. An example of this is someone running into another person while in a hurry to catch a bus. Expressive aggression is intentional but it does not have violent intent. An example of this is a child kicking sand or throwing toys. Although the behavior can be frustrating or harmful to another person, the child did not intend to cause harm. Then there is instrumental aggression. Instrumental aggression results from conflict over objects or what is assumed to be one’s rights. For instance a student that wants to sit at a desk that has been taken might retaliate by knocking the occupants belongings off the desk. This is also be a form of passive aggression. Finally there is hostile aggression which is intended to cause physical or psychological distress. Forms of hostile aggression include bullying, malicious gossiping as well as reactive aggression or reacting to a provoking