To introduce various theories of human nature to students as an intellectual foundation for reflection on what it is to be human. To help students to learn how to analyse claims about humanness and to practice their arguments for or against these claims on the basis of comparisons with others' claims. To explore with students together on particular aspects and problems associated with classical, modern and contemporary theories about humans and human nature in the light of its developments in the history of thoughts gleaned from traditional Chinese and Western philosophies.