I'm a natural
nature man who over stands metaphysics on the feminine plane.
We are
by nature men who do not at all desire to belong to God, but to them - selves.
Indeed the only claim of priority for man in the disclosure of universal Being I know of that is as far - reaching as Heidegger's is the Augustinian treatment of man as imago Dei, which explicitly holds that among all
created natures mans is the most embracing and intimate reflection of divine freedom and that all other natures must be referred to God in the light of that reflection.
By nature man may be related to the brute, but vastly more significant is his kinship with God and participation in the wisdom of God.
In contrast, for Hobbes, in the state
of nature man was intrinsically self - interested, acting for his own well - being and in a manner strictly determined by natural, pre-existent desires and needs to avoid discomfort.