Monday, February 25, 2013

General Reactions To Nature vs. Nurture Debate

Having no prior experience with any of the philosophical concepts provides me with an unbiased perspective on pivotal debates within the discipline.  I have recognized a pattern emerging regarding widely debated fundamental origins and human actions (and while I hate to establish structure to ideals within philosophy; a discipline that enables for multiple concept debates) there is an undeniable resounding theme to resolve or unresolve differing opinions.  A compromise of sorts, in which a middle ground that encompasses facets of each extreme concept exists to balance human nature and actions.  The nature vs. nurture debate held true to this format.  I found the primary acceptance for this debate is "a little of each" exists in forming human psychology and stability. The extreme nurture debate of every person being a blank slate is marginally rejected as problematic.  The accepted components of nurture give rise to the idea of holistic interactionism.  Basing human interactions with specified people, in specified geographical locations, and owing psychological capacity to environmental factors formulates the main components from this concept.  The nature debate cites genes (and I found they loosely defined genes in the article, leaving grey area so uneducated readers have the ability to construe their own false meanings) as the solitary deciding factor in all psychological matters.  Nurture's respect to parenting attributes is replaced by heredity and genetic transfer of predisposed characteristics.   I thoroughly enjoyed reading about this debate, and find myself with the majority: What determines an individual's personality traits is a balance of nature and nurture, care and heredity, love and genes,  symbiotic with each other. I want to end with a quote I found particularly powerful for the argument that there exists a balance of nature vs. nurture.
"Two recent studies have identified single genes that are respectively associated with violence and depression, but have also shown that their effects are manifested only with particular histories of stressful experience"

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