为什么先天和后天问题还不销声匿迹

Why Innate and Acquired Questions Do Not Disappear

流行的观点认为在构造人的个性方面,先天因素和后天因素都起作用,在此“先天”指遗传基因,“后天”指家庭和社会环境。现在这种观点越来越受到心理学和生理学最新研究成果的挑战,这些研究成果让我们认识到基因比我们过去所想象的要重要的多。在基因、环境,以及其他不可知因素如何影响人格构成方面,我们所获得的知识越多,我们在解决我们所面临的社会政治问题上所能得到的可靠依据也就越多。

The prevailing viewpoint is that the innate and acquired factors all work in constructing people's individual character. Herein the word 'innate' means the hereditary gene, while the word 'acquired' refers to the family and social environment. Nowadays this kind of view receives more and more challenges from the latest research results of psychology and physiology. These research results let us realize that gene is much more important than what we thought before. The more knowledge we obtain about how the construction of personality is influenced by gene, environment and some other unknown factors, the more reliable bases we can receive on solving the social and political problems that we face.