Human Nature
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This category overlaps with Epistemology

Human Nature is what it is. Two examples show contrasting views of Jonathan Swift's satire   and   Lao Tzu' and Jesus' descriptions.

                                                Unfavorable
"By what I gave gathered from your own relation, and the answers I have with much pain wringed and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth."
The King of Bromdingnag to Lemuel Gulliver about English Ladies and Gentlemen.
                                                Favorable
"Do you want to improve the world? I don't think it can be done. The world is sacred. It can't be improved. If you tamper with it you will ruin it."
The Way of Lao Tzu

"Be ye therefore perfect" as God is perfect; (therefore become God)
Jesus (Matthew 5:48)
Human Nature are those and everything in between.