{"id":2059,"date":"2013-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wptest\/2013\/01\/12\/is-man-beast-does-instinct-exist-in-human-beings-are-we-as-different-from-animals-as-we-have-been-led-to-believe\/"},"modified":"2013-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"is-man-beast-does-instinct-exist-in-human-beings-are-we-as-different-from-animals-as-we-have-been-led-to-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2013\/01\/12\/is-man-beast-does-instinct-exist-in-human-beings-are-we-as-different-from-animals-as-we-have-been-led-to-believe\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Man Beast? Does Instinct Exist in Human Beings? Are We as Different from Animals as We Have Been Led to Believe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Human Nature vs. Animal Nature<br \/>\nDoes Instinct exist in Human beings? Are we as different from animals as we have been led to believe?<br \/>\n\u201cIf man has no instincts, all comparison with animals must be irrelevant.\u201d &#8211; Midgley <\/p>\n<p>Does EVIL exist in nature? Are humans in denial about the fact that they may well be the most dangerous beasts of them all? We have much to learn from the animal kingdom\u2026 Is wickedness an unavoidable element of human nature? <\/p>\n<p>Mary Midgley (1919-) Beast and Man<br \/>\nW.H. Thorpe (19021986) Animal Nature and Human Nature<br \/>\nSigmund Freud (18561939) The Ego and The Id<br \/>\nJohn Locke (1632-1704) An Essay Concerning Human Understanding<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romy Elliott, 2013, Stage 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[609,22,123],"tags":[245,270,37],"class_list":["post-2059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-609","category-abstracts","category-stage-3-abstracts","tag-animal-rights","tag-humanity","tag-morality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}