The Enlightenment View of Human Nature

The Enlightenment View of Human Nature

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What are the wider implications of different concepts of human nature?’

I have citied the main principles of this discussion and I have

understood the facts and yet there is so much so depends on our

conception of human nature.

In individuals the meaning and purpose of our lives and what we ought

to do or strive for, which may hope to achieve or even to become.

Whereas, in human societies vision the human community hoping to work

toward and what sort of social changes that we should make.

There are ways of finding out the idea that it is possible to identify

standards that correspond to fundamental facts about human beings and

may thus be described as ‘natural’ has played an important role in a

range of theories that have implications for the regulation of

political authority. In order to understand the regulatory role of an

appeal to ‘natural’ from those that focus on ‘nature rights’. Theories

of nature law identify a structure of exceptions and norms that are

not themselves the product of human intention or human will.

These norms serve to legitimate human action and to justify the

exercise of political authority. The natural law is held to be

‘natural’ in two related senses. In the first place, it is so

fundamental to human life that its binding force is a matter of moral

necessity rather than choice: to recognise that there is such a thing

as a ‘law of nature’ and to fail to abide by it is to fly in the face

of a standard that is intrinsic to humanity. Secondly, and as a

consequence of this, it is claimed that adh...

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...it is also the most popular. The

good idea of Socialism, because we cannot change the human nature and

any attempt to create a society free of poverty, exploitation and

violence is bound to run up against the fact that humans tends to be

aggressive, selfish and greedy. It is still a huge matter of deep

difficulty and controversy of the human nature are to understood –

what they study, their data and methods.

Bibliography

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Books:

R.N.Berki (1998) The history of political thought: a short

introduction

Maurice Cranston (1984) Philosophers and Pamphleteers

Leslie Stevenson (1998) Ten theories of Human Nature

Other references – Lecture notes:

Jenkins, Gareth (2001,November) Ideas in the Modern World

Reference for Electronic Citations:

(1999) Encyclopedia- Encarta Deluxe