It's also a recognition that however much people might vary, they have certain things in common by virtue of their common human nature.
It's also a recognition that however much people might vary, they have certain things in common by virtue of their common human nature.
My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.
But a conception of human nature, and its connections to other fields such as politics and the arts, have been there from time immemorial.
All of us have a theory about human nature.
It's the old idea that the process of evolution is some push in the direction of greater complexity--in particular greater intellectual complexity. In one twig of the tree of life, namely ours, having a big brain happened to have advantages. But that's just what worked for a particular species of primate 5 to 7 million years ago.
Intellectual life was enormously affected by an understandable revulsion to Nazism, with its pseudoscientific theories of race, and its equally nonsensical glorification of conflict as part of the evolutionary wisdom of nature.
We may be seeing a coming together of the humanities and the science of human nature.
Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.
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