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• Human Nature refers to the distinguishing characteristics including ways of thinking, feeling, and activity which humans tend to have naturally, independent of the influence of culture
• In human nature, different philosophers venture out on the nature of the human person and identify its possibility of transcendence (or to go beyond limitations)
• Philosophers on Human Nature

  • Socrates
  • Immanuel Kant
  • Plato
  • Aristotle
• Based on Socrates’ followers, he was a rationalist
• Socrates believed that the best life and the life most suited to human nature involved reasoning
• Socrates studied the question of how a person should best live
• Immanuel Kant studied empiricism
• Immanuel Kant drew a distinction between physiological accounts of human nature and pragmatic accounts
• Immanuel Kant's pragmatic investigation is about what he as a free-acting being makes of himself, or can and should make of himself
• Immanuel Kant mentioned inductive and deductive reasoning
• Plato was a student of Socrates who completed or extended Socrates' philosophy
• Plato's theory assumes an ideal to which we aspire, allowing us to measure our progress as human beings
• Plato proposed the three aspects of the soul: appetitive, spiritual, and rational
• Plato's aspect of appetitive refers to cravings we have and how we need to eat food to function
• Plato's aspect of spiritual talks of inner reflection or your spiritual journey
• Plato's aspect of rational is the part of us that thinks, analyzes, looks ahead, rationally weighs options, and tries to gauge what is best and truest
• Aristotle said that our spirit builds on our physical body
• Aristotle proposed the three classifications of soul: vegetative, sensitive, and rational
• Aristotle's vegetative classification refers to the ability to growth and nutrition
• Aristotle's sensitive classification refers to the ability of movement and desire
• Aristotle's rational classification refers to the ability to reason
• Vegetative - plants

  Sensitive - animals

  Rational - humans
• The aspects of the soul talk about how the soul gives commands to the body
• The classifications of the soul talk about how the soul teaches us to build the body