Since humans exist they have considered themselves as the most important living thing that exists in earth. Most of the humans act arrogantly when it comes to consider the human species as just another type of living thing in this planet. For explaining this Fernando Savater uses 3 examples; the first one is when Copernicus and Galileo showed that the center of the universe was the sun and not the earth, this showed that the human species were not the most important thing in the universe. The second one was when Charles Darwin proved that we evolved from the monkey to become what we are today, this stretched more the distance between animals and humans. At last Sigmund Freud said that most of our actions were controlled by unconscious impulses, almost the same as animals.
After this we have to consider, what makes us so superior from animals? My personal opinion is that there are many more things that differentiate us from animals. We can distinguish the good things from the bad, we can analyze and understand why do things happen, we can communicate a lot more than animals, we can express our feelings, but the main difference that I found between animals and humans is that us as human can learn almost things while animals just learn what is enough for them to survive. My conclusion is that we are more developed than animals, not superior or inferior just more developed.
After this we have to consider, what makes us so superior from animals? My personal opinion is that there are many more things that differentiate us from animals. We can distinguish the good things from the bad, we can analyze and understand why do things happen, we can communicate a lot more than animals, we can express our feelings, but the main difference that I found between animals and humans is that us as human can learn almost things while animals just learn what is enough for them to survive. My conclusion is that we are more developed than animals, not superior or inferior just more developed.
I think tour post is very interesting and fun, I think we humans are more developed, as you said, but what really makes a difference is the use of reason. Humans can think about what would be correct or incorrect by reasoning, meanwhile animals just care about their needs.
ResponderEliminarMontaña I must disagree with this post. First of all you talk of humans in third person, as if you weren't one yourself. Then, you say that Darwin proved that humans come from monkeys, which is a lie, Darwin didn't actually proved this, he just came up with a reasonable, yet not absolute theory. Then, you say that us humans have been arrogant when it comes to being compared to animals, and I think you're wrong. We're just proud that we're more sophisticated than animals. What's arrogant, from my point of view, is being able to see all the great things us humans are capable of that animals aren't and still deny that God, or any superior being according to your beliefs, made us and gave us everything we have. Or do you really think we're where we are today just because of our merits? To me, that's arrogant.
ResponderEliminarJorge, i like your statement of our differences with the animal kingdom, anda I like what you said of we can difference the good thing from the bad things and that is really true, maybe an animal doesn't know what they eat or what they do, and we humans know because of our education and our capacity
ResponderEliminarhi jorge this hector from philosophy clase, lol, jorge i like your tittle.. there are a lots of thing that differences us of the animals and a every good one and i think one of the most important is the one that we can differences the good thing of the bad ones... and animal don't learn how to survive they just act for instinct
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