"All men idle, all"

      Reading The Tempest, I was struck, yet again, by the passage in Act 2 Scene 1, of the sailors talking to each other.  Last time, I only considered the humor in the dialogue; however, when I reexamined it, I found that there was something much deeper happening there.
      Gonzalo starts talking about how in HIS kingdom, everything would be different.  The would be no class distinctions, everyone would be equal, all possessing the same, educated the same, etc.  No one would have to work; he says:

". . . All men idle, all.
And women too, but innocent and pure."

He says that his plan would be worth the idleness of the people since all would keep their innocence.  To Gonzalo, all of the things created and used by civilized people--money, jobs, leadership positions, etc.--appear to corrupt man's nature, leading to war, poverty, crime, and general suffering.
      This sparks the old nature versus nurture debate.  Gonzalo believes that, left to themselves, humans are naturally innocent, pure, and good.  But, when influenced by civilization (the nurture aspect) all kinds of terrible things happen, turning men evil and corrupt.  Gonzalo claims that he was just joking about his views on his hypothetical kingdom (and in turn his views on humanity), but was he?  What did Shakespeare himself believe about this subject?  The nature versus nurture debate was not really considered seriously until centuries after Shakespeare wrote; nevertheless, we see the beginnings of it in his writing, which shows that Shakespeare was, at least in this way, ahead of his time.
      I might look into other Shakespeare plays to see if this idea appears in any other works of his.  This might be something worthy of a research paper.