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Human Nature - College Essay

Human Nature

Many people have different views on the moral subject of good and
evil. Ashley Montagu argues that " is good, as such leads to
goodness…being born into the human species means that the individual so
born is capable of becoming whatever it is within that individual to
become." It is the contention of this paper that humans are mostly born
neutral, and if we are raised to be good, we will mature into good. Once
the element of evil is introduced into our minds, through socialization and
the media, we then have the potential to do bad things. Further it is the
writers belief that the good side of a person is developed as they mature.

As a person grows up, they are ideally taught to be ...

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anything similar from
then on, because he knows that it is socially unacceptable. The child
might also continue to do bad things, because he doesn't realize that what
he did was wrong.

Another way evil may be introduced into a person can also be from a
movie or the media. The first time a person sees a movie with violence and
killing, the person might copy what he sees in the movie, and choose to
murder.

Aristotle says "Every act and every inquiry and similarly every
action and pursuit is thought to aim at some good." This idealism is
strongly disagreed with. Since of all the wars, murders, robbers and other
evil things that occur in our world every day.

Plato believes that when a baby is born, he is born with all of his
traits. This paper would disagree with this because you are not going to
see a newborn baby doing anything vicious or evil. You are also not going
to see a baby intentionally doing anything good or helpful.

Thomas Hobbes believes that humans are born ...

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