Man's Nature Is Evil Hsun Tzu Analysis

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Most of us live our lives hoping to become the best, hoping to get further than most people can. But what most of us do not realize is that sometimes becoming the best, at what you are striving for can corrupt you, the fact that some of us do not have a restraint on the methods that we use to achieve that goal is what drives us to that set of mind of becoming corrupted. Sometimes our minds deceive us, thinking that by becoming, better we are doing good in this world, but in reality, we become what most people fear, which is corruption. I have done a lot of reading that point out that striving to become better corrupts people in many more than one way.
Now in many of the reading that I have done it is Man’s Nature Is Evil by Hsun Tzu that stood out to me the most just the way that he presented his idea of how man’s nature been evil, one of the things he says is “Every man who desires to do good does so precisely because his nature is evil. A man whose accomplishments …show more content…

Wilson wrote a book called On Human Nature in (1978) a book in which he directed to show the evolutionary biology and genetics of human beings. In this book, he points out that “I believe that the human mind is constructed in a way that locks it inside this fundamental constraint and forces it to make choices with the purely biological instrument.” Edward O. Wilson talks about how our human minds are made up in a way that prevents us to make other choices besides the ones that we are biologically instrumented to do. In This case, if someone throws an object at you, your first human instinct would be to try to dodge it because its survival skill came into play. In the other hand if we are presented with a choice for our lives to get better many of us will take that opportunity to live life differently and try to take advantage of this chance in life, and just like when you have stated something good in your mouth you are gonna want more, and more and, that right there is what corrupts

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