RE: Secular Humanism and Humanity: What are they?
March 14, 2015 at 3:21 pm
(This post was last modified: March 14, 2015 at 3:24 pm by robvalue.)
OK cool, I was trying to understand what I'm being asked, to further conversation.
"Human" is a naming convention, yes. From a scientific standpoint. So humanity and human nature are relative to that. More informally, people just mean Homo sapiens I'm sure, for all these words.
But really, "human nature" is nothing special, all animals have some sort of nature. We'll eventually evolve in cyber-monkeys probably, and then it'll be "cyber monkey nature" and so on. We certainly do feel very special as a species and feel the need to display our superiority. Our self awareness often makes us prone to want to bestow ourselves with more than we really are.
So simple answer to the opening question, they're nothing special, and they have nothing to do with humanism.
"Human" is a naming convention, yes. From a scientific standpoint. So humanity and human nature are relative to that. More informally, people just mean Homo sapiens I'm sure, for all these words.
But really, "human nature" is nothing special, all animals have some sort of nature. We'll eventually evolve in cyber-monkeys probably, and then it'll be "cyber monkey nature" and so on. We certainly do feel very special as a species and feel the need to display our superiority. Our self awareness often makes us prone to want to bestow ourselves with more than we really are.
So simple answer to the opening question, they're nothing special, and they have nothing to do with humanism.
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