Week7 - Narration

My narration :

Since Socrates stated his opinion about humans, saying that "Humans are reasonable, objective, and rational.", people had begun to study about human minds to prove the rationality of humans. And as time goes, the studies of humans mind in rationalism was developed by lots of philosophers. This was done especially by Descartes who said that "I think, so I exist." which means that we think and behave according to our intuitive logical truth. And one century later, Kant also studied about human minds, concluding that "People are rational enough to enact their kindhearted behaviors, and they always do so." These three philosophers other than ancient, medieval, and current philosophers were also providing the evidences to let people know that they are reasonable in thinking and behaving. Despite their efforts to define humans as rational beings, lots of psychologists nowadays insist that humans are not rational, rather they try to justify their behaviors and beliefs in the cases of making mistakes. And objectiveness of humans are working everytime in lives. For example, employers choose appliers about who would be their new employees in every normal companies, and judges make their mind how long criminals would be in jail. Also, doctors talk to patients in objective views with coldness about how long they are able to live their lives, and experts prove mathematical proportions. However, people make mistakes in those accurate and objective works. And their minds begin to work as they didn't anything wrong, which means that people justified themselves. This fact proves that people are no more rational in the views of themselves. And people are also barely aware of their inner working of justification in their behaviors and beliefs.

For example, one person broke the window with his baseball, when he was playing in front of neighbor's yard. Right after the accident, he might never judge the broken window with his rational thought, like 'I should go into the house and say sorry to the host, paying the whole cost of the window.' We often think that 'It was just a mistake. The host will generously forgive my fault. Wait! Wasn't it you who didn't catch my ball? Yeah, you should pay for the cost of the broken window! It's your fault.' or 'It was just a mistake. The host will understand this as a cute act of children. Then, let's run away!'

Therefore, as we live in reality, we need to and should think and know our real shape of minds. And in reality, we, human beings are not rational and even justify our behaviors and beliefs for ourselves. So, I'm on an affirmative side of the topic that people try to justify their behaviors and beliefs. I'm going to provide two reasons to support my opinion. First, human minds control human bodies in thinking and behaving. Second, humans are innately selfish beings.

Not to misunderstand our mind workings and not to treat our inner world with ignorance, we should know and learn about our self-justification working proved in psychological field according to several results of experiments and studies.