{"id":264967,"date":"2020-08-14T15:56:17","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T22:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=264967"},"modified":"2020-08-14T15:56:41","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T22:56:41","slug":"striving-to-change-human-nature-vs-understanding-human-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/14\/striving-to-change-human-nature-vs-understanding-human-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Striving to Change Human Nature vs Understanding Human Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Question:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Is our goal and desire to *understand* human nature or to (artificially) change it? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>It seems we <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/08\/the-sociology-of-the-future\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"262756\">sociologists<\/a> desire to understand human nature without any spiteful judgement, whereas <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/05\/only-trust-philosophers-who-deadlift\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"261445\">philosophers<\/a>, political scientists, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153behavioral economists\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and short-sighted radicals desire to <strong><em>change<\/em><\/strong> human nature &#8230; often for the worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Is our goal and desire to *understand* human nature or to (artificially) change it? It seems we sociologists desire to understand human nature without any spiteful judgement, whereas philosophers, political scientists, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153behavioral economists\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and short-sighted radicals desire to change human nature &#8230; often for the worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":264969,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/9A9BEBDA-DA6E-4BCE-A0C3-B7EBF48BD1B7.jpeg?fit=1668%2C2224&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264967"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264971,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264967\/revisions\/264971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}