Topic > The Nature of Man - 517

Throughout the centuries, people have argued about the nature of man and the complexity of this question. According to various studies and according to the ideas of important writers and philosophers, man is born naturally good. However, society and environmental factors determine whether one will stay that way or become evil. When one is born, he is naturally good, but his environment and interactions with people from an early age determine whether or not he will develop a sense of badness throughout his life. According to a study conducted by Kiley Hamlin, Karen Wynn and Paul Bloom at the Department of Psychology at Yale University, even children who cannot speak have the ability to distinguish between civilized behavior and wild behavior and to "be okay with it" with civilized behavior in their own way. In the above experiment, three puppets were presented to nineteen different children (all three puppets had distinct colors, easy for the children to distinguish) in an attempt to realize whether or not the children are oriented towards good or bad individuals. During the experiment, initially, a puppet...