Why Study Human Nature?
The most basic question in philosophy is: Who and what am I?; Human Nature: what it essentially means to be a human being; what makes us different from everyone else. Human nature will essentially affect the way you see yourself, how you see others, and how you live. Psychologists have pondered the question of if human nature is self-interested or whether unselfish acts can also motivate human beings. Some psychologists have come to the conclusion that some humans are essentially cruel and selfish. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Men are not gentle, friendly creatures wishing for love, but possess a powerful measure of desire for aggressiveness. Long before Sigmund Freud, British philosopher Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) argued for a particularly similar view of human nature. Thomas Hobbes was a materialist who stated that the Universe, that is the whole mass of things that are, is corporeal, that is to say body. Along with Hobbes, human to are material bodies, and their activities can be expla
