Human nature, cultural diversity, and the French enlightenment

1990 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 701-702
Author(s):  
Haydn Mason
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
French Enlightenment

Human Nature, Cultural Diversity, and the French Enlightenment.

1991 ◽  
Vol 96 (3) ◽  
pp. 883
Author(s):  
Nelly S. Hoyt ◽  
Henry Vyverberg
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
French Enlightenment

scholarly journals Justification of human nature. Universalism and cultural diversity from the point of view of modern science

KANT ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 229-236
Author(s):  
Alexander Brodsky
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Historical Experience ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
And Behavior

In this article the author is going to prove that all the data of recent decades obtained in the field of neurophysiology, linguistics, logic, semiotics and anthropology prove that the idea of a unite Human Nature, which was postulated by the Enlightenment, is not a fiction or even "abstraction", but a perfectly recognizable (though nondescript) reality. All humans are the same, and human nature does not depend on culture. However, the paper addresses not so much the data as their consequences. The universal Human Nature implies the existence of uniform standards of thinking and behavior (ethics), unaffiliated with historical experience, traditions, and beliefs. These standards are available to everyone. But they are unevenly implemented in various cultures due to various historical circumstances.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 7-24
Author(s):  
Nicolas Langlitz
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Nonhuman Primates ◽  
Biological Diversity ◽  
Homo Sapiens ◽  
Modern Humans ◽  
Cultural Primatology ◽  
The 1950S

This introductory chapter provides a background of the ensuing controversy over chimpanzee culture. Japanese and Euro-American primatologists have come to question whether humans are the only primates capable of culture — that is, whether culture amounts to human nature. In the 1950s, Japanese primatologists around Kinji Imanishi proposed to attribute “subhuman culture” — or kaluchua, as they called it — to nonhuman primates. In the course of the 1970s and 1980s, a growing number of European and American primatologists and evolutionary anthropologists chimed in with Japanese anthropomorphism and wondered how unique the cultural nature of Homo sapiens really was. Just as cultural anthropologists have struggled to account for the loss of cultural diversity during five centuries of Euro-American domination (currently on the wane), cultural primatology is now confronted with the question of how to make sense of the eradication of nonhuman cultural and biological diversity in light of modern humans' savage success.

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