What is the essence of man? Since this is a philosophical question. I need a philosophical answer.?

Question

Thank you philosophers, my high respect to all of you.

Answer 1

'Nature engenders nature, and nature only, in its reproduction and in its life. The rose brings forth more roses, never anything ‘unnatural’ or ‘unrose-like’. The human being creates humanity, but with this difference: what is human can at the same time be either ‘human’ or ‘inhuman’. The results of human action range from creations which fill our hearts and souls with lasting strength and delight, to crimes whose shame no atonement can wipe off the face of the earth.

The human being — and only the human being — can create something inhuman. Thus, insofar as the inhuman deed has been done by a human being, it is a human deed, an inhuman human deed. ‘An inhuman human action’ or ‘an inhuman human life’, may sound illogical, but these utterances describe a certain reality with perfect accuracy. If we want to call their meaning ‘contradictory’, then this contradiction expresses the truth of a contradictory reality, a contradictory life. And it is because they convey a truth of life, that we are compelled to look at them, even if logic can't cope with them. '

http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/bublitz.htm

'1. Our ordinary Knowing has before itself only the object which it knows, but does not at first make an object of itself, i.e., of the Knowing. But the whole which is extant in the act of knowing is not the object alone, but also the Ego that knows, and the relation of the Ego and the object to each other, i.e. Consciousness. '

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/ol/ol_phen.htm

'§Essence
“Essence” has quite different meanings throughout the history of philosophy. For ancient philosophy, Essence referred to something beyond and behind the phenomenal form of a thing which gives it is ultimate and unique character. For Hegel, Essence is the genesis of the Notion out of Being, the second of the three parts of the Logic.

Hegel describes Essence as ‘the most difficult branch of logic’ (§ 114), however, we could think of Essence as the conflict between our existing (past) body of knowledge of the thing and the data impinging on consciousness from sense perception and the contradictory unfolding of understanding as we come to grips with things. Thus, Hegel says that Essence is characterised by "reflection" - when you recognise something, the thing finds its "identity" in the body of knowledge you have as a result of past experience, but then immediately brings out the differences, and so on. Essence is the recognition of all the different aspects of the thing, deeper and deeper.
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http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/help/hints.htm#essence

The essence for species is the same for its kind, a universal notion for description for its kind, not the individual of the kind which may excede expectations of the universal description.

Answer 2

I've come to believe that the best thing to do with such questions is to unask them.

After all, what is an "essence"? The word only makes sense when applied to a substance. An essence is that attribute, or that collection of attributes, of a substance without which it (the substance) could not be or remain what it is.

This raises yet another definitional question. What is a substance? A substance is something we can understand only if we take it as a whole. A substance will generally be the part of bigger things or systems, but can be understood in isolation at least in principle.

Man is not a substance, or a class of substances. There is no substance smaller than the planetary ecosystem, of which we can be understood only as small parts.

Hence, we don't have an essence, expect that it is our essence to be part of that whole.

Answer 3

The essence of man...what an interesting nod to the overall SIZE of philosophy and its questions....

In answer to this question, I will say this....

Man is a thinking creature...and a spirited creature.....he throws his own essence to the winds, as it were, on a daily basis....

I would surmise that the essence of man is the Spirited Thought.

Answer 4

Energy. Some can be seen, felt & recognized by the naked eye, yet much of it is unseen by most humans! Without it (energy), there would be no life whatsoever! Man is just a small part of the many life forms that exist in our universe.

Answer 5

The essence of man is no more then a mere illusion created by our ego to give meaning of purpose to what is ultimate unknown.

Answer 6

The essence of man is the search for a meaningful framework for his existence.

Answer 7

When man, on the highest level of human existance, comes into existential contact with reality, he does not limit himself to the consideration of this circumscribed reality as it is manifested by the thing enclosed in itself. In this experience, man goes beyond it. He opens himself to this reality with all its connects and relations. This, he is invaded and dominated by relaity in its totality or, as it is called AUTHENTIC BEING or simply BEING.

It is a deeper knowledge from with in this is what we call the essence of man a profound penetration into Being within and the mystery of Being................

Answer 8

This is the question all of Religion, science, & philosopy is attempting to answer, as well as a lot of thinking individuals outside each discipline. You will get as many answers as people you ask. If anyone could know ultimately, people would no longer ask.

Answer 9

Conflict

Answer 10

Self