Being Human - State of Nature and What Defines the Human:

One of my favorite topics of conversation, I have not yet started the readings and watching the shorts, however, considering the introduction to Week 3, I am reminded of Marx from his Theses On Feuerbach:
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...the essence of man is no abstraction inherent in each single individual. In reality, it is the ensemble of the social relations. Feuerbach, who does not enter upon a criticism of this real essence is hence obliged:

1. To abstract from the historical process and to define the religious sentiment regarded by itself, and to presuppose an abstract — isolated - human individual.

2. The essence therefore can by him only be regarded as ‘species’, as an inner ‘dumb’ generality which unites many individuals only in a natural way.

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