Today it seems the trend is to deny human nature. Yet at the same time there seems to be a common nature......

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like the feeling of fear, envy, hate, happiness, laughter, sadness, pain, language, music, art, curiosity, etc.

Now these things vary from culture to culture, the reasons why we feel them and how we understand them and deal with them, yet we all seem to share these basic traits and more if one goes deeper into it.

Because we speak different languages and related to our self and our environment differently does not mean we can not know about what we all have in common as well as what we have of differences

So I don not understand why we say today that no one can know anything about human nature?

maybe I have misunderstood these people: Nietzsche, Michel Foucault, Jean Paul Sartre, Hegel, etc.

Like I said I could have misunderstood.

"Nietzsche believes human nature is just a euphemism for inertia, cultural conditioning, and what we are before we make something of ourselves."

Sartre: “Existence precedes Essence…We create our own human nature through free choices…”

Answer 1

"In certain highly evolved societies, the intellectual élites progressively detach themselves from the patterns of traditional religion. The periodical resanctification of cosmic time then proves useless and without meaning. [...] But repetition emptied of its religious content necessarily leads to a pessimistic vision of existence. When it is no longer a vehicle for reintegrating a primordial situation [...] that is, when it is desacralized, cyclic time becomes terrifying; it is seen as a circle forever turning on itself, repeating itself to infinity."

The Sacred and the Profane, Mircea Eliade

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_ret...

Answer 2

Hmmm. You are well read aren't you, but it seems to me that you haven't learned to separate the wheat from the chaff yet. I think you are slightly intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity. In other words you talk a lot of codswallop.

Answer 3

It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens