The Nature of Man

The Nature of Man

Plato Man's true nature is that of a higher, wise, calm, universal self, that lives in another world of ideas, that is a world beyond the senses, a world of the intangible outside of the tangible. The world he knows - the world of appearances - contains his lower self apart from the pure ideas of virtue and good.

Platonism: two world system: the world of the appearances and the world of ideas.

Buddhism,
Hinduism, Sufism,
Mysticism
Platonism Man's true nature is that of a higher, wise, calm, universal self, the Buddha mind, the natural mind, which is part of a collective universal mind (Platonism). Instead man is under the delusion of his lower self, his ego, full of desires, anxieties and sufferings from his attachment to this part of himself. He needs to meditate to "let go" of his grasping, to cease grasping of his desires, attachments and (intellectual) concepts, finding small glimpses of his natural, desireless mind. It claims as its common enemy; Positivism, which perceives all reality as only one world, the world of empirical observation and measurable, analytical reality.

Hobbes Man's true nature is "mean, nasty, brutish and short."

Machiavelli. John Locke, Man is selfish and selfishness is in many ways good, as man is self and the self must be selfish. He is not to put others first but rather himself. The good man is not the one who cares for others but the self, is self sufficient. The one who knows how to take care of himself, which benefits others - the whole. You must love yourself before you can love others.

John Locke,
Hobbes, Man's true nature is only one of selfishness and self-interest. It can be utilized in a system based on rational social science that is designed to protect his individual rights and interests. To dominate and control nature and the environment solely for human needs. Under the desires and protection of himself, he will respect the rights of others, solely that his are protected as well, purely out of selfish nature and thus prosper in an industrial society of working for the self, as each man allowed to live as a means for himself will reciprocally thus respect others to do the same for themselves; thus the meaning of the "common good of man."

Rousseau Man's is basically good, yet he is out of touch with nature and needs to stop dominating it and to get back in touch with it, to return to his true nature, his real internal center to connect with his original nature, preserving it, finding this idea of "the common good" in what he deems a "social contract." with nature and one another in wholeness, finding unconscious healing. Rosseau agreed with Locke in a system designed to aid to his selfishness, but found it faulty as it failed to bring him back to his true nature of wholeness, instead Lockian enlightened rationalism based on "rights" created the what Rousseau coined the "bourgeois," the man without depth, without nobility, the man of pettiness and superfluous and mediocre living.(Nietzche's "last man").

Nietzsche found Rosseau's nature raw, a passion without adequate form and reason, leading to bloody revolutions.

Goethe Man's true nature is one of self-destroying and self-creating.Goethe knew how to both destroy the self and re-create it. To form the chaos, control the passion but to have the form absorbed in passion. Ecce Homo - This is the man!

Nietzsche
Inverted Platonism Man's true nature is one of self-destroying chaos and self-creating form. Romanticism is ignorance, while pure rationalism fails to attack one's own convictions. The "last man" is that of a nihilistic "herd mentality," one of outer-directed conformity, while the "overman" is one of self-mastery who is able to sublimate his passions and reason (all stemming from the monistic "will to power"), unlike Christianity which represses passions in Platonic dualism. There is no two world - Platonism - yet neither is the world of appearances the only true world - Positivism, but rather, truth stands only in it's relative position and is therefore always in error, as art, in the destruction and creation is our truth - a fixation on an apparition in the act of "becoming" (Heraclitus) which only "becomes" (Parmenides) in its continual and ever changing movement of "becoming."

Marx The Marxist version of the bourgeois is the capitalistic entrepreneur (Nietzsche's "last man," the bourgeois is the mediocre man who finds importance in his pettiness and insignificant life. In Marx the bourgeois is the petty grayness of the liberal democrat's commercial life and motives) and the proletarian is the working man from the working class (Not Nietzsche's "overman")

Freud Man's true nature is his chaotic, instinctal drive, impulse and desire, it must be controlled with the collective in both civilization and religion, both the creations from the wishes of man.

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	The Nature of Man
Plato	Man's true nature is that of a higher, wise, calm, universal self, that lives in another world of ideas, that is a world beyond the senses, a world of the intangible outside of the tangible. The world he knows - the world of appearances - contains his lower self apart from the pure ideas of virtue and good. Platonism: two world system: the world of the appearances and the world of ideas.

Buddhism, Hinduism, Sufism, Mysticism Platonism	Man's true nature is that of a higher, wise, calm, universal self, the Buddha mind, the natural mind, which is part of a collective universal mind (Platonism). Instead man is under the delusion of his lower self, his ego, full of desires, anxieties and sufferings from his attachment to this part of himself. He needs to meditate to "let go" of his grasping, to cease grasping of his desires, attachments and (intellectual) concepts, finding small glimpses of his natural, desireless mind. It claims as its common enemy; Positivism, which perceives all reality as only one world, the world of empirical observation and measurable, analytical reality.

Hobbes	Man's true nature is "mean, nasty, brutish and short."

Machiavelli. John Locke,	Man is selfish and selfishness is in many ways good, as man is self and the self must be selfish. He is not to put others first but rather himself. The good man is not the one who cares for others but the self, is self sufficient. The one who knows how to take care of himself, which benefits others - the whole. You must love yourself before you can love others.

John Locke, Hobbes,	Man's true nature is only one of selfishness and self-interest. It can be utilized in a system based on rational social science that is designed to protect his individual rights and interests. To dominate and control nature and the environment solely for human needs. Under the desires and protection of himself, he will respect the rights of others, solely that his are protected as well, purely out of selfish nature and thus prosper in an industrial society of working for the self, as each man allowed to live as a means for himself will reciprocally thus respect others to do the same for themselves; thus the meaning of the "common good of man."

Rousseau	Man's is basically good, yet he is out of touch with nature and needs to stop dominating it and to get back in touch with it, to return to his true nature, his real internal center to connect with his original nature, preserving it, finding this idea of "the common good" in what he deems a "social contract." with nature and one another in wholeness, finding unconscious healing. Rosseau agreed with Locke in a system designed to aid to his selfishness, but found it faulty as it failed to bring him back to his true nature of wholeness, instead Lockian enlightened rationalism based on "rights" created the what Rousseau coined the "bourgeois," the man without depth, without nobility, the man of pettiness and superfluous and mediocre living.(Nietzche's "last man"). Nietzsche found Rosseau's nature raw, a passion without adequate form and reason, leading to bloody revolutions.

Goethe	Man's true nature is one of self-destroying and self-creating.Goethe knew how to both destroy the self and re-create it. To form the chaos, control the passion but to have the form absorbed in passion. Ecce Homo - This is the man!

Nietzsche Inverted Platonism	Man's true nature is one of self-destroying chaos and self-creating form. Romanticism is ignorance, while pure rationalism fails to attack one's own convictions. The "last man" is that of a nihilistic "herd mentality," one of outer-directed conformity, while the "overman" is one of self-mastery who is able to sublimate his passions and reason (all stemming from the monistic "will to power"), unlike Christianity which represses passions in Platonic dualism. There is no two world - Platonism - yet neither is the world of appearances the only true world - Positivism, but rather, truth stands only in it's relative position and is therefore always in error, as art, in the destruction and creation is our truth - a fixation on an apparition in the act of "becoming" (Heraclitus) which only "becomes" (Parmenides) in its continual and ever changing movement of "becoming."

Marx	The Marxist version of the bourgeois is the capitalistic entrepreneur (Nietzsche's "last man," the bourgeois is the mediocre man who finds importance in his pettiness and insignificant life. In Marx the bourgeois is the petty grayness of the liberal democrat's commercial life and motives) and the proletarian is the working man from the working class (Not Nietzsche's "overman")

Freud	Man's true nature is his chaotic, instinctal drive, impulse and desire, it must be controlled with the collective in both civilization and religion, both the creations from the wishes of man.

	UNDER CONSTRUCTION