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Aristotle. Aristotle defined inclination in the first paragraph of Metaphysics with the statement "all men by their nature, desire to know." [1] Thomas Aquinas proposed that humans have four natural inclinations - a natural inclination to preservation (life), an inclination to sexual reproduction (procreation), sociability, and knowledge. [2]
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Human positions refer to the different physical configurations that the human body can take. There are several synonyms that refer to human positioning, often used interchangeably, but having specific nuances of meaning. [1] Position is a general term for a configuration of the human body. Posture means an intentionally or habitually assumed ...
The Human Worth of Rigorous Thinking. Columbia Univ. Press. 1922. Mathematical Philosophy, a Study of Fate and Freedom. [2] 1927. Mole Philosophy and Other Essays. 1932. The Meaning of Mathematics. 1935. A glance at some of the ideas of Charles Sanders Peirce. 1935. Mathematics and the Question of the Cosmic Mind, with Other Essays. 1935.
In Judaism, yetzer hara (Hebrew: יֵצֶר הַרַע , romanized: yēṣer haraʿ ) is a term for humankind's congenital inclination to do evil.The term is drawn from the phrase "the inclination of the heart of man is evil" (Biblical Hebrew: יֵצֶר לֵב הָאָדָם רַע, romanized: yetzer lev-ha-adam ra), which occurs twice at the beginning of the Torah (Genesis 6:5 and ...
Also called humanocentrism. The practice, conscious or otherwise, of regarding the existence and concerns of human beings as the central fact of the universe. This is similar, but not identical, to the practice of relating all that happens in the universe to the human experience. To clarify, the first position concludes that the fact of human existence is the point of universal existence; the ...
An open question is whether non-human animals have a genetic endowment and social environment that allows them to acquire a theory of mind like human children do. [11] This is a contentious issue because of the difficulty of inferring from animal behavior the existence of thinking or of particular thoughts, or the existence of a concept of self ...
Instinct is the inherent inclination of a living organism towards a particular complex behaviour, containing innate (inborn) elements.The simplest example of an instinctive behaviour is a fixed action pattern (FAP), in which a very short to medium length sequence of actions, without variation, are carried out in response to a corresponding clearly defined stimulus.