You presented a critique of Essentialism. Have you read what it is?

Yes I have

I quoted what it was a second ago

So, why do you think that Plato did not know that humans in his country did not adapt different lifestyles with changing technology

I'm saying it's more than that and that human nature changes along with these changes

Including what it means to be human

This actually gets into post human thought

That actually is just a question of tautology on what "human" means.
You can say that "human" means killing people relentlessly so empathy would be non-human.

```Cultural posthumanism: a branch of cultural theory critical of the foundational assumptions of humanism and its legacy that examines and questions the historical notions of "human" and "human nature", often challenging typical notions of human subjectivity and embodiment and strives to move beyond archaic concepts of "human nature" to develop ones which constantly adapt to contemporary technoscientificknowledge.```

Well essentiallism vs constructivism is based on the question as to whether human nature is constructed or essential

It is just a deconstructionists' way of making things more complex than they are

If you believe that Earth is flat, would that make it flat? If you live like Earth is flat, would it make it? The problem is that sociologists examine different epochs and notions in history and claim that human nature has changed when it may just be that our understanding has changed

Uh

Wow

Okay

human nature is essential

This is really silly, it's not sociology, which is materialist and thus believes in an objective material reality, that thinks existence is subjective

Er reality not existence

Why did you jump to existence? You are the one saying that human nature changes and I am asking you to prove that. You implied that it changes because we have had different notions of what it means to be human. But we have had different notions of what is the shape of Earth too

Like I said, the way humans behave has already been shown to be constructed from their environment

Again, essentiallists do not deny that

Yes, but they believe in a metaphysical, or mystical, human essence

Which has never been shown to exist

Social constructivists claim that human behaviour is acquired, which can be shown to be false by just proving that genetic makeup affects behaviour and passes on generationally

You are jumping the gun. What is your criticism of essentialism? Is it that human nature has changed, or that human nature has not shown to be real?

You've mischaracterizing constructivism

Since constructivist don't claim that the material body one has doesn't influence the ideal

Obviously it does

What is that ideal?

Uh

Is that existant?

The mind

Which is material

on materialism

It arises from the material

Doesn't mean it has to be material itself

Are you an epiphenonmenalist?

All materialism means is that the material is a first order reality

You cannot claim that a second order reality is more ideal than first order reality

Lord

The ideal is subject and secondary to the material

I don't think you know what "ideal" means. Ideal =/= mental