Over the centuries, the most challenging question to find an answer for; is about the human nature. Are people born with evil nature or good nature? However, until today, no person can find the truth about humanity. In fact, almost all people defend about the goodness in their souls and believe that they are far away from wickedness, although wars, murder and violence show strong evidence of evil in humans. In contrast, Shirley Jackson in her short story argues that evil is firmly rooted in human beings.
Mankind will only survive by living with adversity, not with perfection. Humans seek success but true growth comes from the struggles faced obtaining it. Without the challenge, mankind and nature itself withers away in boredom and sterility. Humans, as with all organisms in nature, survive by adapting to challenge, not by the lack of them. The narrator in Wallace Stegner’s “Crossing Into Eden” finds that paradise is no place for humans because it is too perfect and does not offer the adversity mankind requires to exist.
Human condition is the thematic approach and characteristics of things such as emotional growth, morality, or the crisis in our existence. The books “Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different” by Karen Blumenthal as well as“Farewell to Manzanar” by Jeanne Wakatsuki and James D.Houston
But this draws down to perhaps the oldest instinct in any living being: survival. In that sense, the people making these choices certainly remain their humanity, but only to a degree, as that instinct is animalistic, and we humans often find ourselves above
In the book of Genesis in the Old Testament, it says that God has created human beings through His image. However, no one is perfect. Every person possess unique characteristics, skills and talents. Hence, all the good physical attributes and abilities of every individual has its own otherwise. For instance, the brilliant writer Charlotte Perkin.
“Human nature is like water. It takes shape of its container” is a quote beautifully worded by Wallace Stevens about the effect of human nature. Human nature would be the general characteristics that are shared by individuals of certain civilizations. The characteristics mainly consist of feelings, psychology, and behaviours. Although these characteristics may shape up a human being, there are many different many experiences an individual may go through which may result in disputes.
From Mencian view, human nature (xing) is inherently good. Mencius 6A/2 states that humans’ good nature is like water’s nature to flow down, which means that even if we do bad things, our nature is still good. Mencius 2A/6 and 6A/6 name the goodness we all have as the “four hearts”, the heart of compassion, shame, deference (respect in 6A/6) and judgment. The four hearts are inherently present within us like part of us, and hence natural to us, as stated in 2A/6 and 6A/6. Despite the good nature, we need to do something to have a good life.
It is noteworthy that this story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden is the foundation of the religion with the largest number of followers worldwide. Why does it continue to resonate with so many people even today? The reason is that this utopia contains archetypes that reflect the collective unconscious that is found across all cultures. This is the result of universal themes in this story about humanity’s needs and desires that we still see occurring in our society today. The story of Genesis contains three archetypal characteristics that illustrate these patterns that still demonstrate humanity’s needs.
In the book of Genesis, God creates a garden for a man and woman, Adam
In Dr. Philip Zimbardo’s psychology experiment called the Stanford prison experiment, he came to realization without rules and structure of the guards, they can take matters into their own hands and do whatever they want. The prisoners were deindividualized and were just called by their number on their uniform. The cruel and unusual punishments that the guards inflicted got too out of hand would cause the prisoners to have a mental breakdown and wouldn 't be able to finish the experiment. Zimbardo called this the lucifer effect. In William Golding’s novel “Lord of the Flies” and Sheryl St. Germain’s poem “In the Garden of Eden,” Lucifer and evil are also temptations, which eventually creates the fall of man.
Expulsion. The pain and suffering that accompanies it. Nobody wants to be excluded, but what if it’s the difference between quenching your curiosity and remaining ignorant? In both the Biblical story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and in the dystopian novella Anthem, by Ayn Rand, the protagonists are faced with this predicament. Their actions come with immense consequences which forever change not only their own life, but that of the human race.
Science is invaluable when it comes to generating theories of how and when the earth was formed, the earliest geological processes, and the elements that comprise our world. But where science seems to come up short is in explaining how we got here, why we are here, and what our role is in the natural world. Nearly every belief system has a creation myth, and those myths, even if one deems them untrue, reveal truths about the human role in the natural world and our relationship with it, as well as providing insightful commentary on human nature. Each of the three creation stories we examined explain that the earth was created ex nihilo, or out of nothing.
The second question with the problem with humans is “what are the innate predispositions of men?” (Becker, 1971, p. 116). The third question with the problem with humans is “what types of personality are most valued” (Becker, 1971, p. 116). The fourth question with the problem with humans is “what are the modes of relating to others” (Becker, 1971, p. 116).
The apple tree in this story represents temptation and the fall from grace like in The Garden of Eden. In The White Circle, Anvil attempts to take the apples because "Your old man owns everything in sight. I ain’t got nothin’" showing that he was trying to satisfy his hunger,but is later redeemed when he refuses to take them (Clayton 4). And in The Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve were told not to eat from the tree but were later tempted by Satan causing their banishment from the garden and their fall from
“Human nature is neither demonic nor angelic”, a statement by Mark Passio, is an expression which I do not quite agree, because to me, it seems that man is inherently good. Generally, there are 3 schools of thought with regards to the nature of men. These includes humanity is essentially good; humanity is essentially bad; and humanity is neither essentially good nor bad. According to the Oxford Dictionary, human nature can be defined as the core characteristics such as the ways of thinking, feeling and acting which humans tend to have naturally. Humanity is justified by how we perceived the world.
