Perhaps no one needs to be convinced that the people - there are biological.Whatever may be said about this Church, the proximity of the anatomical structure, physiology homo sapiens to the great apes is obvious.The biological nature of man is clearly inherited by us from the animal kingdom.All people have the blood and central nervous system, have a certain set of internal organs, which are also present in the bodies not only apes, and other mammals and even birds.To some extent, this derived from animals are strictly determined.Parental genes we pass height, color of skin, hair and eyes, and even hereditary diseases.
But of all the philosophical currents of only behaviorism brings nature of people only to their nature, arising from biological nature.People are also social creatures.The philosophical concept of "person" includes the body (the body) and individual (individual, subject).And if at the level of life of the organism there are certain chemical processes - assimilation of glucose, oxygen enrichment, the allocation of toxins, carbon dioxide and so on, on a personal level it is quite different, much more complex processes.The social nature of human life of the organism is not restricted.The meaning of life, the place of the individual in society, people do not care about less than a question of saturation and procreation.
If the biological properties of the organism are inherited, acquired by the social individuals themselves.There is not a place for discussion, what factors are involved in the creation of identity - cultural unconscious, training or experienced during childhood stress - what is important: all of these factors are not in the material world, but in an entirely different plane.Thus, human nature is twofold: his body he belongs to the material world, and the heart and mind - to another, to another.And as far as socio-biological or biosocial being directed toward the other?We can say that the biological nature of people - a prerequisite for their existence in this world, but the essence of the human race - in his sociality.
child born, is not aware of ourselves as individuals.They are led by instinct: the desire to be warm, dry and be satiated.Later, he begins to learn the source of the heat and satiety - the mother.But he knows empirically and other manifestations of this world: cold, hunger, danger.From these troubles again save the mother and the father.Communicating with your parents, engaging them in these simple social relationships, the child has "humanized".Social and cultural factors are beginning to dominate.The child has little to be fed and warm, it is important to feel loved.So the nature of man, starting from biology, rushes to the field of spirituality, where the key role is played by such intangible concepts as love, tenderness, responsibility.
Growing up, the child is aware of its finitude as a biological creature in this world.But the soul of man has always focused on infinity, eternity.We can say that the nature of man - a heavy cross of alienation from nature.Pushes the material realm of man himself, and personality over the years (and diseases) feels alien to this world, abandoned in the "vale of sorrow."If the soul associates itself with its carrier - the body, the tragedy can not be avoided: the shadow of death will haunt a person and poison her existence.
Maybe we should think: from where we have the ability to love, to be thankful for, why we have the aesthetic sense of beauty, moral values?After all, we have nothing in the material and inanimate nature.Stand out from the world of simple biological beings through evolution, Homo sapiens, to some extent it ceased to be just a biological being - he began to confront the material world, reshaping it "for themselves."No wonder the existentialists have noticed that we feel is not at home and in exile, and fight for the right to have this house.We can say that human nature - is the material world, in the spiritual world."All I die - wrote Horace, - the best part of my escape destruction."
