 Section 2  and  section 5  of this entry deal with the purely classificatory and the normative teleological conceptions of human nature respectively, and with the associated types of essentialism.  Section 3  discusses attempts to downgrade TP5, moving from essential to merely characteristic properties.  Section 4  focuses on accounts of an explanatory human nature, both on attempts to provide a modernized version of the teleological blueprint model  (§4.1)  and on explanatory conceptions with deflationary intent relative to the claims of TP2 and TP3  (§4.2  and  §4.3).