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| Humans: Humans, or Homo sapiens, are the most intelligent and widespread species of primates. Humans are characterized by bipedalism, large brains, and capacity for articulate speech and abstract reasoning. Humans are social creatures who live in complex societies. See also Society, Reason, Thinking, Brain, Intelligence, Language._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Anthropology on Humans - Dictionary of Arguments
Höffe I 152 Humans/Citizen/Anthropology/Höffe: Aristotle's definition of the human as a political being by nature is developed [in Thomas Aquinas](1) into the concept of the animal sociale et politicum, the social and political being. (...) >Aristotle, >Humans/Aristotle. [Thomas Aquinas'] view is that the human, both a deficient and a rational being, must take care of his or her own life with his or her own hands and work. >Thomas Aquinas. Thomas AquinasVsAristotle/Höffe: With this anthropological argument Thomas Aquinas tacitly makes a revolutionary reassessment of work: he frees it from a double stigma. It neither appears as an activity merely for servants/slaves nor as a punishment for original sin, but is rather assigned to the nature of humans. >Labour. 1. Thomas De regno ad regem Cypri_____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Anthropology Höffe I Otfried Höffe Geschichte des politischen Denkens München 2016 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-19