Essay On Humanity And Perception (House Of The Scorpion

Humanity and perception(House of the Scorpion)

The book begs the question what defines being human. Not only is this one the crowning philosophical queries of all time but also the most impactful. Since some of the earliest documented societies the question has presented itself with transmutation and the idea of having a soul. Through some of most recent decade’s discrimination based on the beliefs or physical appearances of different social or economic groups further argues how humanity should be defined.

The word humane derives from the word human in the 1800th century meaning kind or compassionate. This shows what the cultural perception of society and people as a whole was and continues to be, having a self-view as and the heroic protagonists perpetuated through false perception. This word defines would people were thought to strive to be, yet as

They would act as working machine their entire life. If actions define who you are, then by this logic they ejits who have human bodies would be nothing more than a mindless machines. They appear and breathe the same way as everyone else but they act and are treated as machines.

Immanuel Kant addressed this in his book Critique of practical reasoning. In this book he described the difference between a humans and machines. If all thought is a result of cause and effect i.e. I’m hungry and therefore I will eat then how would differentiate from functions in a machine. He addressed this by coining the phrase “ought to implies can” meaning humans have the ability to know what they ought to do before do it.

This asks the question does Matt have a soul. Throughout history the prospect of having a soul has existed in virtually every religion as they head to the afterlife. The book even references this many times with Maria quoting a saint that said animals don 't have souls but had the prospect having one. This argues what would cause this soul