human nature

Examples of human nature in the following topics:

• Literary Naturalism

  • Naturalism was a literary movement that used realism to explore the effects of heredity and social environment on human character.
  • Naturalism was a literary movement taking place from roughly 1880 to 1940 that used detailed realism to suggest that social conditions, heredity, and environment had inescapable force in shaping human character.
  • As a result, naturalistic writers were frequently criticized for focusing too much on human vice and misery.
  • The term naturalism itself may have been used in this sense for the first time by Émile Zola.
  • Equally, there tends to be in naturalist novels and stories a strong sense that nature is indifferent to human struggle.

• Evolutionary Psychology

  • Evolutionary psychology seeks to understand human behavior as the result of psychological adaptation and natural selection.
  • It seeks to identify which human psychological traits are evolved adaptations—that is, the functional products of natural selection.
  • Proponents of evolutionary psychology suggest that it seeks to bridge the division between the human social sciences (such as psychology and sociology) and the natural sciences (such as biology, chemistry, and physics).
  • They argue that the psychology of human beings should be understood as a branch of biology, since humans are living organisms.
  • Just as evolutionary physiology has worked to identify physical adaptations of the body that represent "human physiological nature," evolutionary psychology works to identify evolved emotional and cognitive adaptations that represent "human psychological nature."

• Nature vs. Nurture: A False Debate

  • Recently, the nature versus nurture debate has entered the realm of law and criminal defense.
  • The "nature" in the nature versus nurture debate generally refers to innate qualities.
  • In historical terms, nature might refer to human nature or the soul.
  • The "nature" side may be criticized for implying that we behave in ways in which we are naturally inclined, rather than in ways we choose.
  • A molecular biologist and psychoanalyst explain the nature versus nurture debate.

• Natural Rights

  • Natural rights are those that are not dependent on the laws, customs, or beliefs of any particular culture or government, and are therefore universal and inalienable (i.e., rights that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws).
  • The idea of natural rights is also closely related to that of human rights: some acknowledge no difference between the two, while others choose to keep the terms separate to eliminate association with some features traditionally associated with natural rights. 
  • He argued that the essential natural (human) right was "to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own Nature; that is to say, of his own Life."
  • Since by our (human) nature, we seek to maximize our well being, rights are prior to law, natural or institutional, and people will not follow the laws of nature without first being subjected to a sovereign power, without which all ideas of right and wrong are meaningless.
  • Another 17th-century Englishman, John Lilburne (known as Freeborn John) argued for level human basic rights he called "freeborn rights" which he defined as being rights that every human being is born with, as opposed to rights bestowed by government or by human law.

• Sociology and the Social Sciences

  • Newton made a sharp distinction between the natural world, which he asserted was an independent reality that operated by its own laws, and the human or spiritual world.
  • Newton's ideas differed from other philosophers of the same period (such as Blaise Pascal, Gottfried Leibniz, and Johannes Kepler) for whom mathematical expressions of philosophical ideals were taken to be symbolic of natural human relationships as well; the same laws moved physical and spiritual reality.
  • In the attempt to study human behavior using scientific and empirical principles, sociologists always encounter dilemmas, as humans do not always operate predictably according to natural laws.
  • The social sciences occupy a middle position between the "hard" natural sciences and the interpretive bent of the humanities.
  • Isaac Newton was a key figure in the process which split the natural sciences from the humanities.

• Basic Economics of Natural Resources

  • Natural resource economics focuses on the supply, demand, and allocation of the Earth's natural resources to create a more efficient economy.
  • Natural resource economics focuses on the supply, demand, and allocation of the Earth's natural resources.
  • The main objective of natural resource economics is to gain a better understanding of the role of natural resources in the economy.
  • As a field of academic research, natural resource economics addresses the connections and interdependence between human economies and natural ecosystems.
  • Protection policies state the necessary actions internationally, nationally, and individually that must take place to control natural resource depletion that is a result of human activity.

• Writing in Different Academic Disciplines

  • Academic writing conventions vary substantially according to discipline—that is, whether one is working in the humanities, the social or natural sciences, or business.
  • Academic writing in the humanities explores questions that deal with human values.
  • The ultimate goal in writing in the humanities is to explain or understand the human experience—to use writing as a tool to reflect upon life.
  • Science writing includes writing in two main categories: natural sciences and social sciences.
  • The social sciences, on the other hand, focus on human behavior and societies.

• Homo sapiens

  • Humans (Homo sapiens) are distinct from non-human primates in their upright walking, abstract reasoning, language skills, and problem solving.
  • The scientific study of humans is the discipline of anthropology.
  • Only 17 percent of modern male humans are taller.
  • The pattern of human postnatal brain growth differs from that of other apes and allows for extended periods of social learning and language acquisition in juvenile humans.
  • The forces of natural selection have continued to operate on human populations, with evidence that certain regions of the genome display directional selection in the past 15,000 years.

• Special Considerations for Acquisition and Depletion of Natural Resources

  • Resources supplied by nature, such as ore deposits, mineral deposits, oil reserves, gas deposits, and timberstands, are natural resources or wasting assets.
  • In each accounting period, the depletion recognized is an estimate of the cost of the natural resource that was removed from its natural setting during the period.
  • Then assign this total cost to either the cost of natural resources sold or the inventory of the natural resource still on hand.
  • Forest provides timber for humans and food and shelter for flora and fauna.
  • Waterfalls provide spring water for humans, animals, and plants for survival and also provides habitat for marine organisms.

• Types of Natural Resources

  • Natural resource economics focuses on the supply, demand, and allocation of the Earth's natural resources.
  • Natural resource economics focuses on the supply, demand, and allocation of the Earth's natural resources.
  • They are available continuously and their quantity is not noticeably affected by human consumption.
  • Regulations were established to protect the public from airborne contaminants that are hazardous to human health.
  • Analyze natural resource economics and explain the types of natural resources that exist.