What it means to be human | Raymond Tallis
Philosophy For Our Times
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How Did We Get to Be So Different?
I believe that, yes, we're not part of nature, but i don't think we're sort of superior to it. We are just incommensurable with chimps, with trees, with ants, and so on and so forth. So yes, there are dangers in our collective agency, our collective power. But again, our awareness of those dangers is a measure of our uniqueness. And it's probably worth exploring bit more. How did we get ourselves so distant from biology? For that, we must have some kind of biological explanation.
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