Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
He initially got the idea for "Man and Nature" from his observations in his New England home and his foreign travels devoted to similar inquiries. [3] Marsh wrote the book in line with the view that human life and action is a transformative phenomenon, especially in relation to nature, and due to personal economic interests.
[7] [9] The "man against nature" conflict is central to Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, where the protagonist contends against a marlin. [14] It is also common in adventure stories, including Robinson Crusoe. [1] The TV show Man vs. Wild takes its name from this conflict, featuring Bear Grylls and his attempts to survive nature.
Man is a conjugal animal: An animal that is born to couple in adulthood. In doing so, man builds a household and, in more successful cases, a clan or small village run upon patriarchal lines. [16] However, humans naturally tend to connect their villages into cities (poleis), which are more self-sufficient and complete.
Attitudes to nature. Mountains are a good example of changing attitudes to nature. Mountains are a good example of changing attitudes to nature. In the mid-17th century mountains were hated as barren 'deformities', 'monstrous excrescences', 'rubbish of the earth', useless, unproductive and dangerous for men.
Feuerbach resolves the essence of religion into the essence of man [menschliches Wesen = 'human nature']. But the essence of man is no abstraction inherent in each single individual. In reality, it is the ensemble of the social relations. Feuerbach, who does not enter upon a criticism of this real essence is hence obliged: 1.
Darwin suggests sympathy is at the core of sociability and is an instinctive emotion found in most social animals.The ability to recognize and act upon others' distress or danger, is a suggestive evidence of instinctive sympathy; common mutual services found among many social animals, such as hunting and travelling in groups, warning others of danger and mutually defending one another, are ...
Misanthropy is traditionally defined as hatred or dislike of humankind. [3] [4] The word originated in the 17th century and has its roots in the Greek words μῖσος mīsos 'hatred' and ἄνθρωπος ānthropos 'man, human'.
Instead of being the natural state of man, it is, of all conceivable states, the most opposed to his nature—most repugnant to his feelings, and most incompatible with his wants. His natural state is, the social and political—the one for which his Creator made him, and the only one in which he can preserve and perfect his race.