>>>If I can't do the right thing without God, or Jesus, or a church Elder looking over my shoulder, then I have no right calling myself a decent human being.
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>>Just curious Alan.
>>Do you believe that humans are NATURALLY good?
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>Sure. Otherwise the homo sapiens as a species wouldn't survive.
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>Though, I generally define "good" as "good for humankind" :).
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>The particular definition of good, though, would exclude any violence and coercion - and then, that's a social thing. If you mean "naturally" as "regardless of society" then your question is meaningless. With a single human, without others, the homo sapiens can't express its substance as zoon politikon, a social being, and there's no context in which the very idea of good can exist.


In this case I was thinking socially is man naturally "good". Does he get along well with others naturally. Is he naturally generous and kind to others? Or is his natural tendancy to steal, cheap and murder?