...to science, from political to ethical, from physical to mental, from nature to will. It is all about the uncertain and unknown changes. The change seeds in past and present. Future vision is born from listen, search and observation. The essential movement that differs from other field is to carry the seeds of change into the position that leads to action. While I am doing the reading, the name “Lao Tzu” and “Confucius” were always in my mind. Taoism and Confucianism have to be seen side-by-side as two distinct responses to the social, political and philosophical conditions of life two and a half millennia ago in China. They both talk about the two sides of one condition. But Confucianism is greatly concerned with social relations, conduct and human society. Taoism has a much more individualistic and mystical character, greatly influenced by nature called spontaneous behavior (wu-wei). In Lao Tzu's view things were said to create "unnatural" action (wei) by shaping desires (yu). The process of learning the names (ming) used in the doctrines helped one to make distinctions between good and evil, beautiful and ugly, high and low, and "being" (yu) and "non- being" (wu), thereby shaping desires. To abandon knowledge was to abandon names, distinctions, tastes and desires. Do nothing is not really doing nothing. It follows and shapes the flow of events and not to pit oneself against the natural order of things. First and foremost is to be spontaneous in one’s actions. In this sense...
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...Nature vs. Nurture has been an ongoing conflict for years. Nature is the genetics and traits that are passed down from the parent and Nurture is the surrounding factors that the child has grown up in. Some argue that Nature and your surrounding factors will determine how you act as an adult and some argue that Nurture is more of the influence that you need. Both are a concluding factor to how one turns out and should be looked into more thoroughly. The surrounding factors a child (nurture) would depend on what the parent has to offer. If the parents live in poverty and are living off ends meat however they can but yet has a positive attitude and raises their child to look on the bright side of things, the child will act that way. If the parent lives in riches and gives the child whatever they want at a demanding hand and proves to ignore the child and be miserable, that is what the child will know and will grow to be like that. The morals that are taught by parents to their children are morals that they will most likely go by for the rest of their life. If a parent raises their child with their beliefs and religion, that is what the child will know and become....
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...My partner had a lot of interesting things about essential understandings. She had a lot of good essential understandings, in which I believe are true. Some of these essentials were: Nature vs. Nurture Body's right side is wired to the brain's left side and vice versa. Parts of the brain. These essentials are really important for a psychologist in my opinion. For instance, she said that Nature vs. Nurture. I believe this is important because, it's an idea that comes up a lot when we talk about anything that has to do with behavior, which is basically Psychology. It is important to understand this because, we need to see why a person is how they are and understanding this can help a lot. This information was gathered in a seminar discussion. It was discussed that some people tend to act the way they do because of experiences they had.. For example, the seminar about Psychopaths. It was brought up that a psychopath can be the way they are because, they were born with a brain that doesn’t communicate. While others argued that they are like that because, of how they grow up and how they get treated by parents....
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...Beauty and Devastation "It [the tiny bloom] had called her to come and gaze on a mystery. From barren brown stems to glistening leaf-buds; from the leaf-buds to snowy virginity of bloom. It stirred her tremendously"(10). In Zora Neale Hurston’s “Their Eyes Were Watching God” her use of imagery, particularly of nature, is used to stimulate the audience's imagination while communicating deep significance in the novel. The imagery of nature creates a unique parallel between the two sides of nature; its beauty and its devastation. Janie's idea of contentment is shown in Hurston's imagery of a pear tree, which represents nature's beauty. The pear tree represents Janie's idealized views of nature, as it demonstrates her naive and romantic character which constantly seeks true love, and her idealism of the harmony in a marriage based upon love as she travels a path of self-discovery throughout the novel. She was lying across the bed asleep so Janie tipped on out of the front door. Oh to be a pear tree—any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world! She was sixteen. She had glossy leaves and bursting buds and she wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her. Where were the singing bees for her? Nothing on the place nor in her grandma’s house answered her. (11) In this part of the novel it deliberately describes the pear tree in this fashion to show the relation between a blossoming tree, which is blooming as it grows, to the significant character...
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...The term nature as it has been defined is how a person is from his or her inborn genetics. The term nurture as defined is how a person’s behavior changes or a person is from environment and training. Nature shows the habits and behavior of a student in a genetic way through good parents, but as they grow nature could take different turns in their life. It goes to different paths which could lead them to either good or bad things. Whereas nurture shows environmental behavior of the person that is, the society they live in could be good but surrounded environment could still turn them bad if it is bad. Nature and nurture has been playing huge important role in each and every person’s life till today, and is still playing. These terms have become a huge controversial issue in today’s world, it has even affected politically and emotionally. It has still been an unclear debate of how it influences and impacts on a growing child. The question is whether the impact of nature over nurture is more important or the impact of nurture over nature in a child is more important? In my opinion I would say that the impact of both depends on the growth of a child because people growing in good culture, good nature is still bad, people growing in good environment and surroundings are also still bad in addition people or a child that does not have an impact of nurture or nature is usually half empty. They have no sense or idea about the outer world without each of this. Firstly...
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...The Black Death There are many things that we overlooked as kids when studying the Black Death, and one of them is how religion, economics, and labor made the disease effect even more twisted by showing a horror side to human nature. The Black Death was a disease that killed majority of the citizens in Europe, and originally travelled there by a parasite riding on the backs of rats from Asia on sea merchant ships. The people of that time had different theories of how it came to Europe, however, they never thought the carriers being the rats. The theories that the people came up were: It being the wrath of God, infection of the air and waters, and blaming the Jews for polluting their waters. To help break the mold that we’ve been taught as kids, this essay will go into the economics, labor, and religion aspects that the Black Death...
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...I am Taoism, also known as Daoism. I am considered both an indigenous Chinese religion and philosophy due to the “diversity of Taoist belief”. My philosophical side embraces the idea that death is the process to depart “to the Tao” and its practice area is unbounded. My religious side emphasizes more on “spirits and fitness” as a way to obtain immortality and imposes certain rules. The root word in my name is Tao, which means “way”, is the central harmony. Tao is “part of everything” yet “greater than all things”. It refers to the road extending in one direction. Tao is not a substance nor can it be perceived. It is often described as “formless and nameless”. You could say it is a system of guidance. Tao is not God nor should it be worshipped, it is the origin of all things. Although I include several deities, they are...
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...Nature vs. Nurture - Twin Studies Eimy Ramirez PSY304 Prof. Reed April 11, 2015 Abstract The exponential growth of scientific and biological knowledge over time has facilitated the genesis of fields of specialization, namely biological determinism, sociobiology and eugenics, just to mention a few. The common thread between these fields is their proponents collectively postulate that all human traits, including weight, strength, intelligence, aspects of personality such as temperament (aggression for example), criminality and morality, are ultimately determined by the information encoded in DNA. They espouse that "we are who we are" because of our genes solely; that biodiversity in man is ultimately precipitated by phenotypic variations, caused by purely genetic differences, amongst individuals, therefore ostensibly offering little or no gravity to non-genetic factors. Non-genetic factors, generically labelled as the environment, encompass not only the physical, chemical and biological criterion, but also the numerous social and psychological ones that shape our lives as we grow and mature. Can we seriously take the influence of the environment, an intangible but nonetheless powerful force we experience every single day, out of the equation? Are we really who we are simply because our genes deem it so? What happens when you examine twins who have the same genes but were raised in different environments? Nature versus Nurture For years, the...
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...Humans have, for a long, long time, acknowledged that there is a good side, and a bad side to each and every person. The better side of human nature brings out compliments, support, and encouragement to others and to oneself. Unfortunately, people do not always act that way. The darker side of human nature is one that people like to keep quiet and hidden from sight. In the short stories, “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury, “Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor,o and “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe, this dark side is shown through various people and situations. In “The Veldt”, two children turn on their parents in anger. In “Good Country People”, a young man is not who he says he is and robs one of the main characters, and in “The...
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...Has it ever crossed your mind why you are who you are, or why we all have different personality traits? When one thinks of Genetic influence on personality the first thing that pops into mind is that of Nature vs. Nurture. Throughout many centuries, psychologist have been researching which was more of an important factor; genetics or surroundings was a key factor of determining personality. The topic regarding human development, has been a topic that has been controversial. Many people or are on the side of nature, have a strong belief that personality, criminal behaviour, and mental illnesses are something that you inherit. For example, a juvenile who may be mixed in with the wrong crowd including gangs, and or drugs, many people just associate...
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...Often a characteristic in serial killers is directly correlated to a mix of nature and nurture rather than one or the other. Another thing that divides serial killers from other murderers is the motives behind their actions. Most murders committed are done by people that know the victim, and had some motive or reason behind killing them, serial killers usually have no direct motive other than a want for power and control over the victim. This is why serial killers can kill so many without being caught and the police finding only strands of evidence behind them on multiple different...
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...Personal Response One portion of narration in Night, that I believe “paints a dark and angry picture of human nature” is when Rabbi Eliahou's son abandoned his father during their run, because his son started to see Rabbi as a burden. This memoir allows this darker side of human nature to emerge because it shows how a human being’s mentality can push one to selfishness and unthoughtfulness. In that point of the book, many prisoners were suffering and struggling to survive day by day at the concentration camps, which made them put themselves first and act upon their own needs instead of others safety and necessities. The different situations many of the Holocaust victims endured led people to do harmful and ungodly things to one another for...
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...even though these two words appropriately describe Columbus’s expedition, they still oppose one another. In history and life, there are always two sides to a story, two different perspectives of the same story. Therefore, there are two perspectives of Columbus’s voyage, one told by the American Pageant and one told by Howard Zinn in A People’s History of the United States , both of which in retrospect are entirely different on the way they betray Christopher Columbus. Howard Zinn’s ideology of Columbus as a villain is contradictory in nature to the American Pageant’s view of Columbus as a hero....
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...three factors that furnish sensory data to our senses. Finally, the paper will describe the character of nature and nurture to point out how to understand and evaluate sensory data. Basically, sensory perception is defined as an individual’s view of senses sent to the brain in order to help the individual make a decision. Three reasons for believing in the accuracy or inaccuracy of sensory information are perception, interpretation, and knowledge (Anonymous, 2013). Perception is when someone walks in the kitchen to put down bags of groceries and sets a bag on the stove which appears to off. It is off and there would be no reason to believe the information to be inaccurate. However, the stove was recently used and the burners are still hot, which causes the grocery bag to catch on fire. The eyes are deceiving and allowed an individual to put bags of groceries on a hot stove. All this means is someone did not analyze the situation clearly and make the correct decision. It is a matter of how the individual perceived and used this information. The individual could have chosen to place his hand over the stove to see if the burner was hot before placing the bags of groceries on top of the stove. The individual could have chosen to not put anything on or near the stove in case it was hot. Next is interpretation which is a communication process, designed to show us things through involvement along with our...
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...surroundings are more important to determine personalities. In this paper I will explain both sides of the debate and my own personal opinion, which is that genetics lays a base structure for who we can become and our surroundings build the rest. Some psychologists strongly believe that genetics have fairly little to do with people's personalities but rather it is our surroundings, culture, and traditions that shape who we are. According to Saul McLeod, author of "Nature Nurture in psychology from Simply Psychology, "At the other end of the spectrum are the environmentalists – also known as empiricists (not to be confused with the other empirical / scientific approach). Their basic assumption is that at birth the human mind is a tabula rasa (a blank slate) and that this is gradually “filled” as a result of experience." Other people for nurture believe our childhood and experiences are the only thing that determines how well each individual deals with social situations. In the article "Taking the 'vs.' out of nature vs. nurture" the author, Alana Snibbe, states how culture is a big part of nurture and who we are. Culture is humans way of answering life's unanswerable questions and it's this that shapes a lot about how we think and our individual psychology. People who believe in the same things are probably going to think alike and act alike. Obviously, there are some very extreme cases where nature is taken out of the debate all together and nurture is the sole factor to why someone...
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