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Conclusions and reflections

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Conclusions and reflections

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Conclusions and reflections book

Conclusions and reflections

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Conclusions and reflections book

ByPaul Gilbert
BookHuman Nature and Suffering

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Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2016
Imprint Routledge
Pages 11
eBook ISBN 9781315564258

ABSTRACT

This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts covered in this book. The book articulates some basic mechanisms of human nature. It offers some personal reflections on the implications of an evolutionary approach to human beings. The book also outlines some personal concerns regarding an essential dialectic between ourselves as collective actors and our own sense of individuality. Human nature represents a mosaic of possibilities. However, this mosaic is shaped by the culture in which it unfolds and individuates. Culture represents a superordinate system made up of other systems, i.e. people. Children growing within certain cultures are schooled in the surplus, accumulative mentalities. The social values of culture help to recruit and shape the kinds of mentalities and social roles that we all enact between ourselves. Personhood arises from the interpenetration of the incorporated social world as it is, with innate structural forms and innate autopoietic preferences.

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