Kropotkin is conflicted, but why?

[Ichthus77 (Ichthus77 (formerly She™))]

Either there is no human nature/essence (that would be nihilism)… or there is (that would be essentialism).

Re-re-put:

Is Self-Awareness Our Essence? From Instinct to Transcendence

Creatively recognizing consent in every context is our essence that requires choice. It’s an interesting juxtaposition because it pigeonholes us … into choosing. Choice is baked in to personhood. That’s not a Catch-22 like Sartre made it sound when he said we are condemned (it is our essence) to be free… so either way, it’s bad faith if we choose (because it implies we are punting back to our essence). He was as confused as Ayn Rand when she called selfishness a virtue and said it was selfish to…

And remember…

@Ichthus77

The choice is in acknowledging reality, rather than inventing (diverging from) it.

And start back here:

back to the beginning: the limitations of language

I find it humorous whenever people say of someone who rejected Christianity that they held onto Christian ethics, as if the one communicating this… didn’t. Because whenever people say stuff, they are unwittingly following the golden rule, which is the sum of Christian ethics. It is in every culture because culture would not exist without it. To say/communicate anything is to follow it… is to acknowledge the ability of another person to understand what you are communicating… is to communicate wi…