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existential qualifiers are useless

>>6240583
In what respect? I'll concede that they won't help you with your math homework...

>>6240573
I honestly wonder what it would be like to have his vision. Motherfucker is like a chameleon

>>6240573

Yes. We are definite kind distinct from other things. This means we have a nature.

>>6240684
People with such conditions usually see relatively normal actually. Thats because the brain begins to shut down vision in one and makes the other on the "default"

>Does human nature exist?

Nature of individual humans exists insofar as individual humans exist. But a broader human nature which unites them all does not exist.

>Tangent: did you know Sartre was this goofy-looking?

yeah. He used to have Camus pick him up chicks

If by nature you mean essence, then surely there are essential qualities that an entity has to have if it can accurately be called human. On a formal level, this nature is purely genetic and, unless the essentially human genes are closely linked with behavior (which they may be, and probably are, but for some reason this is controversial) it doesn't make sense to draw conclusions about the way people in general act or are inclined to conduct themselves from this genetic essence.
We can define the essence of man by representing this essential genetic code and I'm no other way, unless we accept the existence of God and therefore a transcendent teleological chain. In that case, human nature is whatever God wills it to be.

>According to Annie Cohen-Solal, who wrote a biography of Sartre, his daily drug consumption was thus: two packs of cigarettes, several tobacco pipes, over a quart of alcohol (wine, beer, vodka, whisky etc.), two hundred milligrams of amphetamines, fifteen grams of aspirin, a boat load of barbiturates, some coffee, tea, and a few “heavy” meals (whatever those might have been). He—surprise, surprise—would become terribly ill and would cut back on the tobacco and drugs once in a while.

>One is left to wonder if Sartre’s lazy eye was actually just a symptom of being shit-hammered all the time.