Search results for "Human nature" - New World Encyclopedia
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- are regarded as the untainted aspect of human nature. *~500 B.C.E. ... may be related to innate aspects of human nature. In fact, the principle ...18 KB (2,894 words) - 04:11, 24 May 2024
- integrates biology, ecology, medicine, and human values. ... ecology”. where the moral status of non-human forms of life are considered ...12 KB (1,586 words) - 17:53, 31 October 2023
- As time progresses from stage to stage, human society degrades to a level ... by a pronounced decrease in the quality of human moral standards and religious ...16 KB (2,576 words) - 21:36, 4 June 2023
- and was one of the characteristics that set human beings apart from animals ... While the Epicureans believed that the most basic human impulse was ...21 KB (3,500 words) - 00:46, 26 February 2023
- literature, cosmology, and theories of nature. The synthetic characteristic ... encompasses both natural phenomena and human affairs. Centuries later ...16 KB (2,127 words) - 19:43, 26 July 2023
- species: 1) as to whether they exist in nature or only in the mind; 2) whether ... of nature, based on the constants of human nature. Moderate realists of ...19 KB (2,997 words) - 02:38, 16 November 2022
- existing beings and developed theories of nature in order to explain the natural ... theory that numbers constitute the true nature of things. The doctrine of ...15 KB (2,230 words) - 03:55, 7 December 2022
- to him concerned lenses. The solitary nature of the craft appealed to ... is capable of giving us knowledge of the nature of reality in a way that ...28 KB (4,336 words) - 11:00, 20 September 2023
- " in which he described human society as having developed ... Although Comte's work appeared to regard the human intellect ...22 KB (3,359 words) - 19:00, 21 August 2023
- often, a personification of the entire human species, as is the case with ... topics, including forms of knowledge (in Nature and The Nature of the Four ...15 KB (2,390 words) - 21:20, 9 November 2022
- psychological changes that occur in human beings as they age. Originally ... is to understand the complexities of human nature and the processes and ...31 KB (4,396 words) - 05:46, 25 August 2020
- Plato is ultimately attained, not through human reason alone, but by the ... to be too violent and so unworthy of the nature of God (such as the book ...23 KB (3,797 words) - 22:12, 29 January 2023
- of the intrinsic process-oriented fleeting nature of existence, known as anitya ... that existed as an objective object of our human perception and cognition ...23 KB (3,480 words) - 23:03, 30 November 2022
- crops and are seen as troublesome by nearby human populations. In some regions ... dogs. After being socialized in a human home as infants, the monkeys ...13 KB (1,924 words) - 22:10, 25 November 2023
- and on learning to be circumspect about human nature and possibilities. Bowne ... them. While he took a dim view of human nature, Bowne still believed ...25 KB (3,916 words) - 19:41, 20 November 2023
- god. He is in close communication with Nature, and is said to rule over ... to bestow fecundity and sexual power upon human beings. ...11 KB (1,709 words) - 22:13, 30 November 2022
- for his time. He believed that human beings have the capability ... should work for the improvement of the human condition. As he put it in ...9 KB (1,301 words) - 22:02, 25 October 2022
- to Hume's Treatise of Human Nature. In 1878, he was made ... fatal to practical life. By reducing the human mind to a series of unrelated ...28 KB (4,469 words) - 21:18, 30 April 2023
- avoid pain is an essential attribute of human nature; evaluative or ethical ... holds that it is an essential aspect of human nature to seek pleasure and avoid ...16 KB (2,405 words) - 08:07, 25 June 2024
- that which is specialized or advanced in nature, available only to a narrow ... of its protectors, but by its very nature—for example, if it is accessible ...12 KB (1,732 words) - 21:30, 20 March 2024
