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13名無しさん@英語勉強中
>>12続きです。
Rationality fixed human distinctiveness, the Greeks held. "Man is a rational animal." The capacity to be rational demarcates humans from other animals and thus defines them.
Human specialness has repeat-edlu been contracted since the Middle Ages−this was the first large statement about intellectual history that I recall reading. Copernicus, Darwin, and
Freud taught us that human beings do not occupy a taught us that human beings do not occupy a spe-cial place in the universe, they a spe-cial place in the universe, they are not special in their
origin and are not always guided by rational or even consciously known motives. What continued to give humanity some special status, though, is its capacity for rationality. Perhaps we
do not consistently exercise this valuable attribute; yet it sets us apart. Rationality provides us with the (potential) power to investigate and discover anything and every-thing; it
enables us to control and direct our behavor through reasons and the utilization of principles.
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