We have witnessed some of the
best aspects of human nature, as tens of thousands of people have responded to real need by creating organisations such as food banks.
Though this behavior may be inconsistent with most «animal rights» philosophies, it is entirely consistent with some of the
worst aspects of human nature.
True, Lewis does populate Narnia with semiallegorical figures who represent eternal
aspects of human nature in addition to more realistic characters like the Pevensies.
With neuroscience promising to decipher the most
intricate aspects of human nature, it is little wonder that it has come to be one of the most popularised branches of science.
While Locke was right to eschew particular innate ideas, his lack of familiarity with evolutionary theory and neurosciences prevented him from
grasping aspects of human nature that are inherited and universal and grounded in our shared neurochemistry.
Fox's directorial debut is a strangely fascinating piece of misguided intentions, a crooked attempt to editorialize on the
ugliest aspects of human nature gone awry.
It is a great encouragement for me that I have been chosen by the very prestigious jury for an award that has been created to honour the memory of a great artist — someone whose work connected to the deepest and most
essential aspect of human nature.»
Anthropologists have effectively contested the simplistic conceptions of man that would put every human being into one uniform category, recognizing that some of the most
interesting aspects of human nature relate to dissimilarities rather than likenesses.
The pathological approach has, besides its assets, also a serious liability, and that is an exaggerated emphasis on the morbid manifestations and on the
lower aspects of human nature and the consequent unwarranted generalized applications of the many findings of psychopathology to the psychology of normal human beings.
It will be shown that all three branches of knowledge have to do with all three of the
traditional aspects of human nature, and that every discipline in fact studies man as a whole, comprising body, mind, and spirit.
Emotionality is not a
peripheral aspect of our human nature or an occasional distortion of it, but rather is formative in our development and constitutive of our moral lives and has clear neurochemical foundations.
The Lockean challenge to innate ideas represented a healthy exercise of philosophical parsimony and an important step forward but, at the same time, it led to another dichotomy between innate and
acquired aspects of human nature more generally.
These complex and often subtle rules of the culture are connected to
ancient aspects of our human nature that have been around for a long time, have survived in many different cultures and will survive in the new virtual worlds that are rapidly appearing.
But it's a jungle out there, and Squirrel spares neither personality foible nor
distasteful aspect of human nature or the animal kingdom (a parasite that prefers hippopotamus anuses comes to mind).
From the ancient mythology of Rome's founding brothers Romulus and Remus, to the adventures of Mowgli in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book and the keen animal perspective in Jack London's classics The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both positive and
negative aspects of human nature have been called into question with fascinating imagination.
And my job also is to probe and write when there's evidence that
aspects of human nature make it unlikely that a «verbal «Pearl Harbor»» will jog us into action on energy and climate.