Human Nature: Personality, Culture, and Fundamental Needs

Personality: Key Aspects

Personality encompasses the total sum of inherited and acquired psychic qualities that are characteristic of a person, making them unique. It can be understood through three main components:

1. Total Psychic Qualities: The inherited and acquired psychic qualities that define an individual and make them unique.
2. Temperament: A person's reaction to stimuli, stemming from their constitutional psychic abilities and qualities, as the way a person reacts depends basically on their inheritance.
3. Character: The distinctive behavior patterns characteristic of an individual.

Understanding Culture

The term culture refers to the lifestyle of any society, not just to areas that society considers higher or more desirable. There is no society without culture; every human being is educated in the sense of having a culture, and each individual is studied in relation to their culture.

Culture is the social heritage of the members of a society. It is the configuration of learned behaviors and the results of behaviors whose elements are shared and transmitted by the members of society. Key aspects of culture include:

• Eidetic Imagery:

  • Beliefs and Values
  • Professional knowledge (scientists and humanists)
  • Configuration of activities and projects

• Kinesics:

  • Competent Execution
  • Innovation in practical styles
  • Qualified skills

• Material Culture:

  • Artifacts
  • Embodied Projects (undergoing processing)
  • Technology

Humanization: Biological & Cultural Aspects

From a biological standpoint, what specifically characterizes human behavior is inespecialization and indeterminacy. Such indeterminacy is supplied by what are called non-biological patterns of behavior, or "cultural patterns." These include three key aspects:

1. Utensils:

   The lack of natural weapons to defend against attack and the acquisition of food is supplied by humans through the invention of tools and implements:

   • Household Tools: Derived from human ingenuity, their "technical rationale" gradually developed through millennia of evolution.
   • Tool Construction: This is possible because there is a morphophysiology unique to humans, and one possesses an intellect capable of abstraction, objectification, and positivity.

2. The Legal-Ethical Rule

3. Languages

Human Needs: Key Dimensions

Humans are creatures of needs, which can be categorized into several dimensions:

1. Economical
2. Adapted
3. Formalized
4. Psychic

Understanding Proportion

Proportion is defined as an equality of two ratios.