Throughout Fernando Savater’s book, we have been to define ourselves and in this chapter are no different. Savater mainly speaks of what make us different from animals and I found quite interesting some of them. He stated that one of the main differences was that animals do what they do to satisfy their needs, while humans instead of only satisfy them, they create new needs. I think he is right in the way that animals only do what they need to do like feeding, sleeping, reproducing etc. In the other hand, humans are always creating new necessities which really are unnecessary. The fact that humans are always inventing things like internet, cars and creating huge skyscrapers are only because as Savater said “an dissatisfied animal”.
Also I liked the fact that he used Pico’s quote “the most wonderful thing about man is that he remains open and undetermined”. I think this is really a big difference between what we are and what animals are. I think animals are “programmed”. They do what their instincts tell them to do; they have a prestablished way of behavior. In the other, humans have free-will. We decide what to do and what not, we can do something against our beliefs, against the ideas we have been raise with, because we have the privilege of doing what we want, even if we know is right or wrong.
I really liked this chapter because it presents more clear ideas that the previous chapters and I found very interesting some of the points presented in the chapter.
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I liked your blog because you mentioned something that I really found interesting the fact that we have freewill to do what we want and that animals are just “programmed” by following their instincts, that’s a big difference between humans and animals, but another thing that I found interesting is what Savater said “an dissatisfied animal”, that’s the problem I found Erick don’t you think so? Because we are never happy with what we do or what we have we always want new things.
ResponderEliminarI agree with you in your post. Animals are satisfied with what they have, while humans are never satisfied and always wants more and more; we are "dissatisfied animals". I also agree with Illeana when she said that animals always follows their instincts; we have freewill to do the thing we want in the way that we want.
ResponderEliminarI agree with you Erick, I also liked Pico's quote. Like he says, it is the fact that God gave us the gift of free will that makes us diferent from animals, According to Pico God created animals and gave them specific tasks, like you said, he "programmed" them. But then he made us humans and gave us the great gift of "free-will". And that's what's so great about being humans, the fact that we're free to choose what to do with our lives. I don't think it's arrogant for someone to want everybody to know that we're different and better than animals, I think that's just being proud, not arrogant.
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