HREQ 1040 Study Guide - The Human Instinct, Human Nature, Sociobiology

• School: York University
• Department: Human Rights and Equity Studies
• Course: HREQ 1040
• Professor: Anthony Colaguori

Document Summary

Summary : a note on human nature and violence/ the creation of patriarchy. Human nature has been a topic of fascination for many different scientists with many different backgrounds each trying to explain what it means to be a human and rationalize people"s behaviour. The concept has been further diluted by associating the destructive ability of humans as a part of human nature. This path leads to finding ways that human nature is controlled by some innate force rather than influenced by our culture. In this piece of literature the author, dr. claudio colaguori aims to explain in detail the distinction between the actions we have control over and those determined by some innate force. Furthermore, he tries to nullify some poorly constructed theories about the destructive nature of humans. He writes about sociobiology a field of study that aims to prove to the world that our behaviour is controlled by our biology1 .