Notes on Human Nature (Part 8)

Abstract

Continuing to delve deeper into human nature by looking at what we see to determine how it probably came about. We get a lot of clues to our own nature by looking at the world in which we live and breaking it down into its constituent parts. It is unavoidable to use creation as a starting point in lieu of any other plausible alternative. And once creation is established as the starting point then that can be used to explain several other starting points also.

We envision this process by looking at how human beings have lived and at the objects which have been left behind as a source of information as to what the nature of the people who did these things must have been. One conclusion that stands out is that human actions often cannot be explained by their needs for survival. Human nature is not based solely on what our physical requirements for sustaining life is all about. What, then, are our other motivators?

This leads us to looking at the non-physical side of human nature. Obviously something moves humans to do certain things which exist only in our minds in the form of what seems logical, reasonable, truthful, or also what we simply believe. There must be some way to explain this activity which exists in a separate world from the physical world that our body exists in. This, too, can be approached by looking at the things that we humans do or have done and then searching for some explanation within us that fits what we see.