Criticism of Humanity——A Case Study of A Dog’s Taleby Mark Twain

对人性的讨论自古就有,圣经中的亚当夏娃,教宗额我略一世的七宗罪等早已被人们所知晓;从马克思,恩格斯对人性的阐述,到刑事人类学派创始人龙勃罗梭的《犯罪人论》,都可以看出人们不断地对人性进行着探索。人们试图从中发现人性的本真,善恶,以使人类更为深刻地了解自己。人性的善恶之争从未停止,而本文将以马克·吐温狗的自述为例,来对人的趋利性、攻击性、忘恩负义等恶性进行批判,以使得人们更为深刻地自省,最终能够减轻或摒弃人类恶的本性,以达到自我的提升。

There is a discussion of human nature since ancient times. Adam and Eve who in the Bible and the seven deadly sins of Pope Gregory have already been known by people. Human has been exploring the original human nature for a long time, which could be known from the statement of Marx and Engels and CRIMINAL MAN written by Cesare Lombroso who was a original criminal anthropology. People tried to find out the good and the evil of human nature, in order to know themselves deeply. The argument between the good and the evil of human nature has been under discussion for ages. This paper takes A Dog’s Tale as an example to criticize the evil of human nature, such as interest tendency, aggressiveness, ungratefulness to make people do some soul- searching. Eventually, people push aside or abandon the evil of human nature to achieve selfimprovement.