Week 9 Question 2

I don’t believe in the rationality, perfectibility, and mutability premises are the three basic beliefs about human nature. Rationality premises “the belief that most people are capable of discovering the truth through logical analysis. The reason I don’t believe this is because I don’t think there is a solid truth about everything. Truths are subjective; therefore we have different parties in government. People believe what they want to believe in because truth is multifaceted. Perfectibility premise “humans are born in sin but are capable of achieving goodness through effort and control”(P.353). However, I believe humans are born in goodness and it was the later outside influence make human become more complicated. I think I have this belief is because I was influenced by my own culture, the Confucianism. The last belief is mutability premise “human behavior is shaped by environmental factors and that the way to improve humans is to improve their physical and psychological circumstances”(p. 353). I agreed with this premise because it has something to do with human shaped by culture and we later improve ourselves by improve our physical and psychological circumstances. Especially psychological, because what we think and how we proceed the world effects our choices and our choices effects our lives.