Thursday, May 15, 2008

Human Universals per Donald Brown

2 comments:

Tiny Seal said...

Good compilation. But things like pain, crying, etc are part of our human physiology. How can he bucket them under behavior patterns?

Unawoken said...

He is using universals as a superset that includes both psyche and bahaviour. See this quote from the wikipedia page:

... he says these universals, "comprise those features of culture, society, language, behavior, and psyche for which there are no known exceptions." ...