Grotius adopts this idea for himself, modifying it in keeping with his rich conception of human nature: for him, natural law obliges us to perform actions which conduce to our rationality, sociability and need for self-preservation.
They were, "above all, critics, aiming to put human intelligence to use as an engine for understanding human nature, for analyzing man as a sociable being, and the natural environment in which he lived".
That's human nature for you.
Pratchett understood human nature, for better or for worse.
Some things -- human nature, for example -- never seem to change.
"I know it's human nature for everyone to gossip.
It's just human nature for people to be comfortable with what they know.
But it's only human nature for such expansion to breed too much optimism, overextending an entire economy.
"I think it's human nature for there to be ambivalence about stuff like this," Ms. Fraser says.
In fact, whether he admits it or not, it is human nature for Marbury to be especially competitive with Kidd.
