▲ Freud, Jung荣格
We are prey to innate drives buried in our unconscious minds潜意识

The key to evil in human nature
The main thing is that the person does not see himself as responsible for his own actions.
He sees himself as an agent executing the wishes of another person.
We see in the experiment how frequently subjects turned to the experiment saying, "Am I responsible?"
And as soon as he told them they were not, they could proceed more easily.
(What have I learned from my investigations?)
It doesn't take an evil person to serve an evil system.
Ordinary people are easily integrated into malevolent systems.


▲ R.D. Laing
The word insanity was an over-used and abused term,
often given to individuals who simply didn't conform to the expectations of society.
不符合社会预期的个体

Doctors should listen to patients instead of abusing patients

There are some words that in relationship to such people, words like sickness, madness, psychosis, neurosis
have become in my mind so confused in their uses that I would prefer to withdraw them from the currency of my own disclosure.

I don't want to apply the description to that girl.


▲ Margret Mead
Our culture modeled us.

Society could be cured.
caused by the value of the society

Somo**(a tribe name) youngsters:
not asked to work very hard, or make any choices,
they were allowed to pick their lovers fairly freely
Children peep from houses, and see birth, watch lovers(亲密行为)
They know what is going on in the world


▲ Derek Freeman
Mead had some errors in her report
But it is true that
the way in which culture deal with adolescence varies
and consequently the experience of adolescence itself varies


▲ Benjamin Spock
Mead的育儿师
Be instinctive, nurture in a loving way
=> politician
It is not enough to bring up our children happy and safe, we have to give them a decent world


▲ B.F. Skinner
Proved that elements of our behavior can be altered if we change the environmental conditions.

Behaviorism:
each person starts out as a blank slate, and is modeled purely by their environment
少管所里的积分奖励制
But human are not born a blank slate, each of us is born with innate qualities which affect out behavior.


▲ Morris and Goodall
aspects of our behavior are driven by our animal ancestry.


▲ Desmond Morris
a man-watcher
:
derived from our animal ancestry
every species is unique.
Human is another kind of animals, we have certain animal qualities.


▲ Jane Goodall (and the chimps...)
Human made tools, a defining characteristic of human being from an ape.
Chimps make tools too, and have affection and grief.

Chimps' dark side: violent behavior
攻击性行为根植于人类的祖先的血液中,因此现代人类的战争与暴力是无可避免的



■ Are we slaves to our nature instincts or can we master our behavior?


▲ Richard Dawkins

we are just machines of genes
society rule is jungle rules.
They look as if they have been constructed for passing on their genes.

The book is not advocating selfishness.
genes often stand the best chance of survival, if, rather than fighting it out.
Individuals cooperate and look after each other.

The gene is selfish, not the individual.
Evolution have given us a big, complex brain, so that we can override our inbuilt genetic compulsions.


■ Conclusion:
We are undoubtedly products of our biology, and the potential for human failing will always be there.
But that doesn't mean we are slaves to our nature.
The sophistication of the human brain and the ways in which we live together
have given us the power to recognize and master our wort impulses.
This, after all, is being human is all about.

亲历大师Great Thinkers: In Their Own Words(2011)

又名:伟大的思想家:用他们自己的话说

主演:丽贝卡·弗朗特 Rebecca Front/Tariq Ali/戴维·阿滕伯勒 David Attenborough/Lisa Appignanesi/Tanya Byron/Stefan Collini/理查德·道金斯 Richard Dawkins/阿兰·德波顿 Alain de Botton/詹姆斯·福克斯 James Fox/Paul Gilroy/珍·古道尔 Jane Goodall/约翰·格雷 John Gray/Germaine Greer/Claudia Hammond/戴维·黑尔 David Hare/奥利弗·詹姆斯 Oliver James/Selma James/Adrian Laing/Armand Leroi/David Miliband/Henrietta Moore/John Redwood/Roger Scruton/Jean Seaton/Robert Skidelsky/Laurie Taylor

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