Examination of the conceptual framework wherein various accounts of “human nature”. Philosophical figures to be discussed include: Plato, Thucydides, Aristotle, Augustine, Rousseau, Hobbes, Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Gehlen, Plessner, Lukacs, Landmann, Radin, C.L. Strauss, Heller, Scheler, Sartre, Schmitt, Foucault, Koselleck, Kondylis.