human nature

philosophy

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

opossum

Thomas Hobbes

G.W.F. Hegel

is (as species being) constantly changing and evolving in tandem with the development of the forces and relations of production. We are capable of shaping our own nature to some extent.

Marx talked about 'human nature' using the term 'species being'. For Marx, human nature is constantly changing and evolving, in tandem with development of the forces and relations of production.

is a product of the human sciences... no more, no less.

For Foucault, human nature is first a product of the human sciences... no more, no less. Perhaps it was 'directly presented to discourse' in the natural sciences of the ..'

is a set of characteristics that are accidental in origin and can again be reformed by the right social institutions.

refers to a set of characteristics that are accidental in origin, and that it can again be re-formed by the right social institutions'

Human nature is above all things lazy. Harriet Beecher Stowe

is absolutely constant. It is only by tradition and organization that anything decent can be got out of him.

Man is an extraordinarily fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant. It is only by tradition and organisation that anything decent can be got out of him. T. E. Hulme

is always bi-valent, involving the death drive and the life drive... it is the location where the tension between opposing forces takes place, and where neither of the contrary forces can ever be fully present and dominant.

In Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1919), Freud introduces the death drive or destruction as an inherent tendency of human nature and an insurmountable force. However, for Freud, human nature is always bivalent... it is the location where the tension between opposing forces takes place, and where neither of the contrary forces can ever be fully present and dominant. The death drive is for the most part silent and only expresses itself in relationship in the life drive. Thus, human existence is an ongoing battle between life instinctsdrives and impulses of destruction.'

is an inner struggle which belongs to God with its outcome being external human action, which belongs to men.

We have long struggles with ourself, of which the outcome is one of our actions... they are, as it were, the inner side of human nature. This inner side is God's... the outer side belongs to men. Honore de Balzac

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human nature