The World without Humans
In this chapter Savater tried to show us some of the important points about the human being, how it is different to other species, how we interact, and how we live.
Many people argued that we are a special being that create needs. Is to say that the other species try to survive and reproduce only. Mean while humans try to find and create new needs for living better.
To survive in the modern human civilization, humans need to take a part of our childhood in school. That means that humans need to be “trained“to incorporate to our modern human civilization. It is to say, that we need to learn a language, a culture, etc.
One philosopher I found interesting was Picco della Mirandola. He said that we are a “version” of God, which means that we are able to create things and manipulate the nature. I think this is a very good point of view, which goes together with religion, because God said that human were created similarly as him.
Yesterday, I saw a TV show called “The World without Humans”, it shows the people how it would be if for some reason the humans disappear. They said that there would be many viruses, that would kill many animals, and after 1000 years without humans, there would be very little clues of the existence of the human civilization.
We are a special race, and even though we make mistakes that other animals do not, we will always be the leading race in the world, even if we are called animals.
in a documentary i saw in a magazine a while ago that was of the same topic it said that in a world without humans nature would reclaim back its "lost" territory, and animals like cows, chickens, pigs , maggots and rats would have a hard time( come to think of it, a cow wouldnt survive 30 min in the outside world xD).
ResponderEliminarI think this documentaries ( the one you saw and the one i readed) are good arguments that our place in life is not fixed, as no equilibrium would be destroyed if we are not around. but we can either work to make an equilibrium or destroy completely.
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As you I also liked the ideas of Picco della Mirandola, but I never related it with what you say about god making us to his image stuff, and I think that is a really good point; it is a different point of view, which makes a lot of sense to me, and opens a whole new path towards understanding. At least for me, becuase I know not everyone has the same beliefs, good thing philosophy is more of a personal thing.
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ResponderEliminarI really like your post Nestor. I also found interesting Picco della Mirandola's ideas.
ResponderEliminarThe world wouldn't be the world without humans; we are the ones that innovate and create new things.
I liked your post because there I found similar ideas as mines. If there where no humans in this world, it would be a complex place for animals, some races wouldn't exist because of viruses and bacterias, and maybe some other new species would exist depending on the environment. In my point of view it's true that we are a "special type" of animals, maybe I wouldn't classify us as animals, because we oustand from them in the way that we can reason. By reasoning we can invent things, innovate, also have goals to achieve in our life, feel and wonder etc.
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