Nature vs Nurture

ownage overdose · May 1, 2009

Do you think people are a product of their genetic pre-disposition or products of outside influences? i.e socio-economic factors, how they are raised, signifigant events that occur during their lives.
By product I mean personality, talents, likes and dislikes etc. Not physical.

Jesse · May 2, 2009

This:

http://deoxy.org/egofalse.htm said:

The first thing to be understood is what ego is. A child is born. A child is born without any knowledge, any consciousness of his own self. And when a child is born the first thing he becomes aware of is not himself; the first thing he becomes aware of is the other. It is natural, because the eyes open outwards, the hands touch others, the ears listen to others, the tongue tastes food and the nose smells the outside. All these senses open outwards.

That is what birth means. Birth means coming into this world, the world of the outside. So when a child is born, he is born into this world. He opens his eyes, sees others. 'Other' means the thou. He becomes aware of the mother first. Then, by and by, he becomes aware of his own body. That too is the other, that too belongs to the world. He is hungry and he feels the body; his need is satisfied, he forgets the body.

This is how a child grows. First he becomes aware of you, thou, other, and then by and by, in contrast to you, thou, he becomes aware of himself.

This awareness is a reflected awareness. He is not aware of who he is. He is simply aware of the mother and what she thinks about him. If she smiles, if she appreciates the child, if she says, "You are beautiful," if she hugs and kisses him, the child feels good about himself. Now an ego is born.
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(Thanks Ugh)

Dark boy42 · May 3, 2009

ownage overdose said: ↑

Do you think people are a product of their genetic pre-disposition or products of outside influences? i.e socio-economic factors, how they are raised, signifigant events that occur during their lives.
By product I mean personality, talents, likes and dislikes etc. Not physical.
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In my opinion, we are what others have made us. We have been influenced and changed since we were infants to what we are today.

shakaka · May 3, 2009

Both are a factor.

Also: Did you just take psych? I remember learning about this last year in psych 1.. Haha.

Christmas Crackers · May 5, 2009

I think if you look at a spectrum in which nature is on one side and nurture is on the other, the answer lies somewhere towards the middle, but more so towards nurture, because I believe the environment has a greater effect than genetic disposition.

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