Wednesday, May 2, 2007
What is human being?
Human being is kinds of animal who can think, create and innovate in many positive ways for their history. In other words non-human being cannot do easily those kinds of activity. Given these facts, human being can develop their unique culture and community. In addition, doing those things can make human being more flourish than non-human being in terms of knowledge, art, culture and romance. However, some era of human history could not improve too much because of severe disease, war and so forth. In contrast, non- human being may think and innovate sometimes; however, they did not progress or a bit compare to previous ancestor. In addition non-human being uses tool for their convenience such as twig. It happens by chance. In another case, Nonja that had fed by caretaker in Austria, we can assume differently in her painting. She made a several “surprising” painting. Nevertheless, comparing to ten-thousand year ago, it seem to be same way with their intuition. Some people will argue those things; however, it could not accept generally. Also some animals can create their society almost human-being level such as chimpanzees. In conclusion, most differences between human being and non-human being is that the human being are developed by their discretionary decision. Again non-human being just survives with their severe surroundings.
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Joon,
I enjoyed reading your response, but here are a few things to think about. In your first sentence you include the ability to walk and then seemed to combine this with "innovating in a positive way through history". I'm not sure what to make of this. Certainly we are animals that walk, but I'm not sure we are always thinking in a positive way while we walk. Perhaps you meant these as two separate elements in the definition, in which case the sentence needs to be cleared up a bit. Something like: animals who walk, and are also capable of thinking in a positive..."
Your comments about the relationship between humans and history, and the transmission of culture down through history, are very well done. They echo some comments I read last night on the history of the human language. That author pointed out that we are the only species who appears interested in its own history. I'll try to help you after class today to show you how you could change a few other sentences to make your meaning more clear. However, you have obviously put a lot of thought into this response, and I enjoyed reading it.
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