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Title: What Does It Mean to Be Human?


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What Does It Mean to Be Human?
  • Looking at Bonobos

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  • One day during class, when asked to give a
    definition of Man, Plato claimed that man was a
    bipedal animal with no fur or feathers.
  • Maybe this is what he imagined.

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  • The next day his student Diogenes came back to
    class with a plucked chicken and said, Here is
    Platos man.

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  • Diogenes was pointing out the difficulty in
    defining how humans are difficult from animals.

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  • Pair work
  • Come up with as many definitions of humans as you
    can using the form
  • Humans are animals that . . .

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  • We are now going to watch a short video on
    Bononobos. Your job is to take notes and then
    write a comparison paragraph on the extraordinary
    ways in which Bonobos are similar to humans.

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  • But first here are some terms you will need
  • walking bipedal
  • egalitarian society
  • causal thought
  • hard-wired in the brain
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