What Is Your View of Human Nature & How Will Your View Impact on the Way one Manages People?

I will first consider the first part of this question: What is my view of human nature?

Human nature is a difficult & complex topic that has been widely debated about throughout history by many philosophers.

A lot depends on what theory of human nature we accept. Different conceptions about human nature lead to different views about what we ought to do & how we can do it. If an all-powerful god made us, then it is His purpose that defines what we can be and ought to be, and we must look to him for help. If, on the other hand, we are products of society, and if we find that many human lives are presently unsatisfactory, then there can be no real solution until human society is transformed. If we are radically free and can never escape the necessity for individual choice, then we have to accept this and make our choices with full awareness of what we are doing. If our biological nature predisposes us to think, feel and act in certain ways, then we had better take realistic account of that in individual choices and in social policy.

So what is my view on human nature? Having read the essential reading I feel that my views on human nature can be described in terms of a ‘closed system'.

My views on human nature are based on an all powerful god that created us, with His purpose that defines what we can be and ought to be, and that we must look to him for help. I take a religious Islamic point of view on humanity. We have been created by god & are composed of a body a soul who's ultimate purpose is to worship god. I believe that god has decreed all matters before human existence, and that He (god) knows exactly when & where everything will occur & everything occurs according to his decree.

We are composed of a body & soul, when a baby is created, an angel is sent to blow the soul into the fetus, & is ordered to record four matters: the baby's sustenance, life span, deeds and whether he/she will go to heaven or hell. And at death the body dies but the soul lives on. The soul separates from the body, and on the day of reserection the soul and body are reunited. The Greek philosopher Plato believed that the soul pre-exists the body and at death it separates from the body to attain its full perfect state. This perfect and pure state can only be achieved after it's release from the body.

Even though my view on human nature can be regarded as a closed system, and a ‘purely philosophical' evaluation seem bleak, I will attempt to adopt some