The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself.
Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.
It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control.
My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is provided.
Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.
Nature governs man by no principle more fixed than that which leads him to pursue his interest.
One thing you cannot control is nature.
What must be the nature of the world... if human beings are able to introduce changes into it?
Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.