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Mar 15, 2021 · Thus understood, human nature is the set of human features or processes that remain after subtraction of those picked out by concepts of the non-natural, concepts such as “culture”, “nurture”, or “socialisation”.
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- Karl Marx. “If a human being is a social creature, then he can develop only in the society.” Karl Marx is known for writing the Communist Manifesto alongside philosopher and social scientist Friedrich Engels.
- David Hume. “All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be skeptical, or at least cautious; and not to admit of any hypothesis, whatsoever; much less, of any which is supported by no appearance of probability.”
- Ludwig Wittgenstein. “The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. The world is everything that is the case.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche. “The hour-hand of life. Life consists of rare, isolated moments of the greatest significance, and of innumerably many intervals, during which at best the silhouettes of those moments hover about us.
May 16, 2012 · Philosophy Dispatches. What Does It Mean to Be Human? We can’t turn to science for an answer. Posted May 16, 2012 | Reviewed by Matt Huston. What does it mean to be human? Or, putting the...
PHIL 280: Being Human Short Description: This course examines the way philosophy looks for fundamental characteristics that identify life as a properly human life, asks about its ultimate meaning or purpose, and raises questions about what counts as a good life.
Dec 9, 2011 · Bourke goes on to explore history’s varied definitions of what it means to be human, which have used a wide range of imperfect, incomplete criteria — intellectual ability, self-consciousness, private property, tool-making, language, the possession of a soul, and many more.
Summary. According to a philosophical commonplace, Aristotle defined human beings as rational animals. When one takes a closer look at the surviving texts, however, it is surprisingly hard to find such a definition. Of course, Aristotle repeatedly stresses that he regards rationality as the crucial differentiating characteristic of human beings ...
