What is human nature?
Posted: Sun May 11, 2014 10:06 pm
What is human nature?
Blackburn then goes on to discuss whether or not we should seek to change human nature. There are two pathways to this. Culture has been shaping human behavior at least as long as there have been philosophers and will continue to do so. The other pathway is genetic manipulation through selective breeding or genetic engineering. It seems that we should not have to explain upon the many reasons why genetically manipulating humans to have only desirable behaviors is a bad idea, but it is probably worth doing so. Blackburn's reasons are:Questions about our real motives and real beliefs appear intractable because we would like generalizations and laws of behavior, yet find only variation between individuals, change within individuals, and sometimes nice and nasty surprises.
.a relatively plastic disposition ready to be tuned by education and experience