The real question of human nature goes beyond basic biology; it really demands that we address questions of, say, morality and purpose. Does human nature carry with it a moral structure and a specific end or purpose that remain constant over time and to which we must conform ourselves in order to flourish? Or are we simply the stuff of which we are made and beyond that free to be or do whatever we so choose? Pieces of living playdough attached to a will? Once Hegel placed human self-consciousness at the center and observed how this changes over time, the question of this deeper sense of human
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