More recently I have been reflecting on the nature of personality/temperment/individuality, etc. Specifically, what is it that makes two equally intelligent, equally educated people come down on such divergent sides of an issue: abortion/health care reform/theism/etc. I was sparked by the announcement that Carl Jung's book of dreams is about to be published. I find familiarity is his thoughts though they are actually foreign to me. What is it that sends some people down the same paths (myself and Carl Jung for instance) and others down completely divergent ones?
I am not at all claiming to be anywhere near the intellectual Carl Jung was, just that there is a way of approaching life that we seems to share. What is it that created that approach? Nature? Nurture? I feel like the answer lies mostly in nurture, but I do not dismiss the possibility of some genetic imprint.
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