The Human Being is a paradox. It is a median between what really exists and what should exist. It is torn apart between reality and dream.
At some point in time, the Homo sapiens species found its freedom. It attained a means of controlling consciousness, at least at a minimal level; and this begun the perpetual transcendence into the ideal �Human Being�. At any given time, man is only getting closer to his dream. He is never there.
Nietzsche believes that man is a bridge between Ape and Ubermensch or Superman. His potential for infinite strength is the key to evolve into the Superman.
Nietzsche also believes that the modern man is a decadence from the ideal. Man is constantly moving away from his passions and from his natural state of existence. And as long as he is moving away from nature, he will never get closer to the truth. He will only create a world for himself and live the lie.
According to Karl Marx, man is continuously defining himself throughout history. He is constantly asking himself what it means to be human. And at different times in history, he defines himself differently. This is why history changes.
Sartre believes that the condition of man lies between being an object and a conscious being. His consciousness is a flicker, not a stream. In the absence of another human being, man decays into something lesser than human, because his consciousness does not perpetuate itself, especially because it lacks the need to.
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