人的本质，通常认为，就其现实性上，是一切社会关系的总和。笔者认为：从现实社会关系的总和去把握人的本质，只是把握人的本质的途径和方法，而不是人的本质本身。通过揭示并论证人是思维与存在的矛盾存在，实践是人的存在方式，从而论证了人的本质是在实践中展开着的思维与存在的矛盾存在，并初步揭示了“人的本质新论”的哲学功能。 The essence of human beings, generally speaking, is, in its reality, the sum of all social relations. The author believes that grasping the essence of human beings from the sum of the social relations in reality is only the way and method of grasping people’s essence, not the essence of human beings. By revealing and arguing that man is a contradiction between thinking and being, practice is the way of human existence, so as to argue that the essence of man is the existence of contradictions between thinking and being in practice, and tentatively reveals the "new theory of human nature The philosophical function.