On Human Nature by Edward O. Wilson | Part I | Chapters 1 - 3
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Part 1 of 2 lectures on the book 'On Human Nature' by Edward O. Wilson. This covers chapters 1 - 3.
On Human Nature by Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson attempts to explain human nature and society through sociobiology.
Chapter 1 - Dilemma
Chapter 2 - Hereditary
Chapter 3 - Development
Human nature is the core of all psychology. The human mind is complicated and historically philosophers psychologist thinkers religious theorists have struggled with what the human mind is and human nature going back thousands of years. This is the core of psychology if we don't get human nature right if released all get close to the reality the biological reality of human nature that are philosophical ideas or psychological ideas possible even our moral, political or religious ideas are to that extent going to be misguided.
Wilson wrote 2 other books. 'Insect Societies and his primary work 'Sociobiology' which is really the umbrella under which most of his writings can be placed.
It can be summarized as a book about the classic scientist's problem of a universal approach to human nature. His book 'Sociobiology' is Wilson's attempt to synthesize many fields into one. evolutionary psychology ,sociobiology, biology, behavioral genetics and a dozen other terms. He attempts to complete the Darwinian revolution by bringing biological thought into social sciences and humanities.
Chapter 1 - Dilemmas
The dilemmas cause by a biological view of human nature. Wilson addresses 2 dilemmas caused by his biological view of human nature. First what is the definition of Sociobiology? It is defined as the scientific or systematic study of the biological basis of all forms of social behavior, in all kinds of organisms including man.
Wilson suggests boundaries limit the human prospect. "If humankind evolved by Darwinian natural selection, genetic chance and environmental necessity, not God, made the species." Right up front he's challenging the existence of god and he knows it.
The first great dilemma is if he is right, if we focus not on God but human nature as a biological entity, then what is our purpose here? If there is no God how is it that we get through our day ..what's the end point? What motivates us to get out of bed in the morning, why love, why raise families. What's the meaning of our life is if it isn't given to us by God? . And he doesn't give a very good answer to that question other than a sense of our own will and nobility and strength and creativity that challenges us to will our own meaning. Strikes a lot of readers similar to to Nietzsche's ideas among others.
Second dilemma which he spends a great deal of time on which I think is absolutely essential. Morality is born as an instinct. But what happens when we have to make hard choices. Is he suggesting that we can through the application of science to sociobiology, come up with moral value judgments? That we can make political decisions based on a scientific application of socio biological?
Chapter 2: Hereditary
It is here that Wilson makes his case more forcefully and completely that behavioral traits in human beings, as we already know them to be in all other animals, are iheritable and genetically determined.
Chapter 3: Development
In chapter 3 The newly fertilized egg a corpuscle 12 hundredth of an inch in diameter is not a human being. He's just alienated 90 percent of the committed religious believers. In this culture I think. He does not. And I think he he fails here. He fails to answer the question okay if it's not a human being. When does it become a human being at what point in the evolution of the fetus into a born child does he declare it to be human.
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Donovan Bigelow is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in private psychotherapy practice in Seattle, Washington. His clinical focus is on adolescent, adult, and couples therapy. He believe that therapists cannot take a patient deeper than they have been willing to go themselves.
Part 1 of 2 lectures on the book 'On Human Nature' by Edward O. Wilson. This covers chapters 1 - 3.
On Human Nature by Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson attempts to explain human nature and society through sociobiology.
Chapter 1 - Dilemma
Chapter 2 - Hereditary
Chapter 3 - Development
Human nature is the core of all psychology. The human mind is complicated and historically philosophers psychologist thinkers religious theorists have struggled with what the human mind is and human nature going back thousands of years. This is the core of psychology if we don't get human nature right if released all get close to the reality the biological reality of human nature that are philosophical ideas or psychological ideas possible even our moral, political or religious ideas are to that extent going to be misguided.
Wilson wrote 2 other books. 'Insect Societies and his primary work 'Sociobiology' which is really the umbrella under which most of his writings can be placed.
It can be summarized as a book about the classic scientist's problem of a universal approach to human nature. His book 'Sociobiology' is Wilson's attempt to synthesize many fields into one. evolutionary psychology ,sociobiology, biology, behavioral genetics and a dozen other terms. He attempts to complete the Darwinian revolution by bringing biological thought into social sciences and humanities.
Chapter 1 - Dilemmas
The dilemmas cause by a biological view of human nature. Wilson addresses 2 dilemmas caused by his biological view of human nature. First what is the definition of Sociobiology? It is defined as the scientific or systematic study of the biological basis of all forms of social behavior, in all kinds of organisms including man.
Wilson suggests boundaries limit the human prospect. "If humankind evolved by Darwinian natural selection, genetic chance and environmental necessity, not God, made the species." Right up front he's challenging the existence of god and he knows it.
The first great dilemma is if he is right, if we focus not on God but human nature as a biological entity, then what is our purpose here? If there is no God how is it that we get through our day ..what's the end point? What motivates us to get out of bed in the morning, why love, why raise families. What's the meaning of our life is if it isn't given to us by God? . And he doesn't give a very good answer to that question other than a sense of our own will and nobility and strength and creativity that challenges us to will our own meaning. Strikes a lot of readers similar to to Nietzsche's ideas among others.
Second dilemma which he spends a great deal of time on which I think is absolutely essential. Morality is born as an instinct. But what happens when we have to make hard choices. Is he suggesting that we can through the application of science to sociobiology, come up with moral value judgments? That we can make political decisions based on a scientific application of socio biological?
Chapter 2: Hereditary
It is here that Wilson makes his case more forcefully and completely that behavioral traits in human beings, as we already know them to be in all other animals, are iheritable and genetically determined.
Chapter 3: Development
In chapter 3 The newly fertilized egg a corpuscle 12 hundredth of an inch in diameter is not a human being. He's just alienated 90 percent of the committed religious believers. In this culture I think. He does not. And I think he he fails here. He fails to answer the question okay if it's not a human being. When does it become a human being at what point in the evolution of the fetus into a born child does he declare it to be human.
Follow Donovan:
Google+: https://plus.google.com/+DonovanBigel...
Facebook: Facebook: DonovanBigelowLMHC
Website: http://donovanbigelow.com/
Donovan Bigelow is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in private psychotherapy practice in Seattle, Washington. His clinical focus is on adolescent, adult, and couples therapy. He believe that therapists cannot take a patient deeper than they have been willing to go themselves.
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