Humanity Colton Ayers, Andrew Dugan, & Rebecca Hough

a longing or craving, as for something that brings satisfaction or enjoyment
Empathy: • Having empathy is part of the glue that holds societies together • The ability to understand and share the feelings of another • Neuroscience has shown link between brain function and empathy • This suggests that empathy is innately human, it is not a learned behavior but something that is naturally occurring within us
Reason • Reason is the mind’s ability to think and form ideas • Rational thought comes from this ability • Capacity for consciously making sense of things • Logical thinking • Factual based • Allows us to form beliefs • Critical thinking • Ability to change beliefs when facts change • Understand the world and form judgements through reason • Research study: children as young as 4-6 had the ability to create beliefs based on evidence
Morality • A code of conduct created by a society or group and accepted by individuals to guide behavior • Pursuit of doing what is right
Pursuit of Knowledge: • Pursuit of knowledge dates back to biblical times when men sought to know “all there is to know” • Desire to know as much as possible • Invention of Google to bring information quickly and easily demonstrates this desire of humans to know as much as they can • Desire to bring enlightenment to a culture
Works Cited Fellous, Jean-Marc, and Michael A. Arbib. Who Needs Emotions?: The Brain Meets The Robot. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2005. Print. Moore, Burness E., and Bernard D. Fine. Psychoanalytic Terms and Concepts. New York: American Psychoanalytic Association, 1990. Print. Thompson, Terry W. "Connell's the Most Dangerous Game." The Explicator 60.2 (2002): 86-88. Web. Williams, Garrath. "Kant's Account of Reason." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford University, 12 Sept. 2008. Web. 27 Nov. 2016. "Decoding the Charitable Brain: Empathy, Perspective Taking, and Attention Shifts Differentially Predict Altruistic Giving." Decoding the Charitable Brain: Empathy, Perspective Taking, and Attention Shifts Differentially Predict Altruistic Giving | Journal of Neuroscience. N.p., n.d. Web. 26 Nov. 2016.

Credits:

Created with images by bearinthenorth - "berlin the reichstag people" • Willian_Ferreira_Soares - "Love" • Pierre Phaneuf - "Empathy" • dierk schaefer - "Brain" • DariuszSankowski - "knowledge book library" • Pexels - "adult city cityscape" • Kevin Briody - "Lots of people in a stand"

Made with Adobe Slate

Make your words and images move.

Get Slate

Report Abuse

If you feel that this video content violates the Adobe Terms of Use, you may report this content by filling out this quick form.

To report a Copyright Violation, please follow Section 17 in the Terms of Use.