Reflections on the nature of human nature

Abstract

To a great extent, all humanistic studies Iead to the absorbing theme of the nature of human nature. But the various views of scholars lack consensus asid often validity. The ground for this is assumed to be inadequate foundations in scientific phiosophy asad psychology. Conventional views about human nature include notions of innateness asid trascendence. Tbe present essay is designed as a naturalistic alternative based on the interdisciplinary consideration of biological, ethnological, asid psychological principies. It is proposed that a naturalistic approach can provide satisfactory infonnation concerning dic evolution and interbehavior of human beings with the things asid events isa their envi¬ronments. It is interbehavioral events that constitute the natures of hominids.