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Post by lukejoo on Oct 7, 2014 12:40:14 GMT
Today in class, we had an unfinished discussion about whether generosity is part of human nature, or is something that is nurtured within us. So, what are your ideas?
I think that generosity would be something that is nurtured. Everything about human nature almost seems to relate to survival instinct and generosity just doesn't seem to fit. To give your own things, either material or conceptual, to others with no expectations of return is contradictory with trying to keep yourself alive since you'd never want to 'waste' anything without a practical purpose. So, seeing that despite theses contradictions with human nature, the reason why we time to time see genuine generosity in our society is because we value it. We value it as a virtue. So we are generous for the sake of being virtuous, something that is nurtured within our society.
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Post by bachle on Oct 15, 2014 13:22:20 GMT
I agree with you Luke that generosity is something that we are taught to do so. I remember that when I was an emotional and irritable kid in elementary school. It was playing time, so I quickly ran to pick my favorite toy in a cage and one kid also wanted to play that toy. As a kid, my selfish instinct was high and I didn't want to share it. Then, that kid jumped in and tried to take the toy but he was way smaller than me. Thus, as I mentioned, I was emotional so I beat the crap out of him. Later, the teacher stopped us and slapped me twice because of beating other kid. Through the story, I don't think sharing is part of our instinct, it takes a while to study them.
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Post by anyuchen on Oct 15, 2014 15:12:11 GMT
As far as i am concerned, generosity is nuture. I do not believe that a perason know the importance of sharing something with ohters. When a small baby come to this world, the only thing he can do is to cry to get help from adult. If he is hungry, he just cry. If he is thristy, he just cry. If he want some, he just cry. I think this is not a generosity behavior. A person can only have generosity after long time education.
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Post by jooyoungparkyesbaby on Oct 16, 2014 1:42:18 GMT
Generosity is definitely a nurture, and a value that should be revered and respected by many who perform such generosity. Being generous for me is sacrificing one's own comfort for the sake of others. This definitely portrays how one who is performing generosity is going against human nature.
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Post by sanhakim95 on Oct 16, 2014 12:18:24 GMT
I agree that human nature has to do with survival above everything else. While it does make sense that such a reasoning leads to the fact that generosity is more learned, i think survival instincts could also lead to people "sharing" with others. That is, sharing my toys with others and such was definitely learned. However, when you think about the time when hunting and gathering were the main means of survival, the hunters within a group or tribe had the obligation to share their proceeds with the others in the group in order to make sure that the who group survived together. So, in this sense, I think that generosity, to some degree is innate.
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Post by irin on Oct 19, 2014 14:27:09 GMT
generiosity defines the nature because when you need help you can do something like baaby got hungry they are cring for food also help also generiostiry can sacrifice for others.
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Post by jimim on Oct 19, 2014 15:43:19 GMT
I think generosity is something that is taught by other people. When we are just born, we don't know anything and we don't know what wrong and right. By learning those from other adults, we slowly learn generosity too. After learning generosity, we start to be generous in order to have good relationship with other people. So I think generosity are something that is taught by others.
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