HUMAN NATURE

HUMAN NATURE

1. Human nature is the philosophical concept, according to which human beings offer to share a number of inherent distinctive characteristics, which include ways of thinking, feeling and acting.

2. Human nature is made up of several elements

   • MIND
     • The mind is the set of cognitive capacities that encompass processes such as perception, thought, consciousness, memory, imagination, etc., some of which are characteristics of the human
   • soul
     • Soul is the immaterial essence that defines individuality and its humanity. The soul is considered the life-giving principle
   • Body
     • The human body is the physical and material structure of the human being. It is studied by different branches of the biological sciences, depending on the organization level of the subject being analyzed.

3. Human nature and its elements have been explained by these philosophers

   • SOCRATES
     • CONSEPTION OF MAN ACCORDING TO SOCRATES According to Socrates, what constitutes our human nature is virtue, understood as knowing how to act well. ... The human being is distinguished in Socrates, for being able to give a rational answer to any rational question that is asked about himself.
   • PLATO
     • Plato establishes a dualism in man: a perishable body and a precious, eternal and indestructible soul. Plato argued that it is the soul and not the body that reaches the knowledge of Ideas and that is concerned with ethics.
   • ARISTOTELES
     • For example, the nature of the human being is that it is "a social and political animal". As we have indicated, Aristotle defines nature as "the essence of beings that possess in themselves and as such the principle of their movement." - The theory of potency and act

4. Characteristics of humans

   • They live in society
     • they are thinking beings
       • they went through millions of years of evolution to reach the present
         • After so many years of evolution, our genetics changed to adapt to our biome.

5. Genetics

   • The human genome is the DNA sequence contained in 23 pairs of chromosomes in the nucleus of each diploid human cell. Of the 23 pairs, 22 are autosomal chromosomes and a sex-determining pair