Friday, September 25, 2009

The Symbolic Animal

Hy again everybody
This week I’m going to talk about a very different animal from the rest, I’m not saying that this animal if very different in quality’s, it is different from the inside, by the way it acts. This animal is the Human, this particular animal it is distinguish among all other by different quality’s it has, its an animal that has a very different ways of behaving. Next we have some differences between animals and humans.
One of the main differences between animals and humans is the way of thinking. Even duo we are animals that evolution from animals, we have many differences from them. The way you or me think is very different from the animals, animals just think for that moment (by instinct) and humans think for the future. This is why humans can develop and animals don’t, because animals don’t care what will happen the next day while human does and take measures.
The second thing I want to talk about is the form of communication. Humans as well as animals are able of communicate; the difference is that the human language is more complete from the one of animals. The main difference between this two is that humans give a symbol to everything, that’s the reason Savaatar says that we are symbolic animals, because we give a symbol to everything.
Well then I think this is all for today, but keep in mind that even duo we consider ourselves superior we are still animals, are we?

2 comments:

  1. Many people argue that the human is not an animal, right? But we could say we are a different raze, a raze that name the things with symbols, as you just said. We are a different raze with many similarities to other animals, and even though we use the ability of reasoning, it does not mean we are superior, or inferior, just because we make more mistakes than other kind of animals. We are just a different raze with its advantages and disadvantages.

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  2. pepe, i allmost agree with al that you said. that we almost the same as animals, that the mayor thing that deferences us is that we think. the other one is that yes they also comunicate but other mayor thing is that we use language.. but the only thing that i dont agree with you is that you are calling animals to humans

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