Recognition About The Nature Of Human Being

What is human being? Who is human being? Why can human being be called human being? Such questions are as old as mankind.These questions only belong to human being because the person is the highest forms of life exist.Only have people with the capacity of self-awareness,self-care ability and the spirit of wonder and doubt.But when people put forward this problem,people will be doomed in a dilemma:He is not only a question master,but the one who is being questioned.When we asked each person with self-awareness "What are you",they can clearly perhaps replied:"I am a person",but if further asked:"What is human being?" Often can not be precisely answered.People are different from all other exist forms in the world,because people not only exist,but also aware of their existence and have their own self-consciousness of existence.The nature of people is asked about their own people in order to resolve the doubt.Human nature is full of variety,with the only difference between animals look up,you can come to many of the provisions of its own people,and a large number of thinkers have the nature of the people have made unremitting exploration,also reveals the different aspects some characteristics of people.Chapter 1 history exploration on the nature of human beingBy analyzing opinions about the nature of human being of different times of the philosophers,it was found that they have their own opinion.After the German philosopher Cassirer's analysis that based on previous opinions,he believed even if the exploration of the nature of human being has experienced some stages,but nobody gave a fundamental answer to "what is human being".Rather,it is in a "anarchy of thought",and since human beings are still in the crisis of self-awareness.Cassirer chooses a new perspective to analyze the nature of human being and propose a new type of philosophy - Philosophy of symbolic forms.By introducing a new perspective,Cassirer wanted to reflect on the nature of human being by using human culture.From myth and religion to language field,we find same basic processes in a different form.Even the language is the most solid one of the conservative forces in human culture.Without such a conservative force,it is impossible to achieve its mission - the exchange of information.The exchange of information required strict rules,which will be doomed of its stability and being last for long.A language transmission from one generation to the next one cannot be comparable to the easy transfer of property,since one is to promote the preservation of language,and another one is to promote innovation and rehabilitation of a language.But they are completely balanced,it is essential for language vitality of both the composition and conditions. At the same time,new aspects perform at the development of art,which include originality,individuality and creativity factor.Since we are not satisfied With duplicate or copy form of our tradition at Art,which makes us aware of a new duty and introducing a new critical standard.Chapter 2 Cassirer's definition on the nature of human beingCassirer defined human being as "symbolic animal," and pointed out that people created symbols and uses those symbols to change the world.Symbolic thinking and behavior is the most typical feature in human life,and the full development of human culture is dependent on these conditions.People have created themselves and the world of people;People will always create themselves and a world of people;People and the world of people will always be unfinished business there.He not only found the most constant and unique property in human's properties, and his dynamic development happened on the way to study the nature of people,he gave a functional definition by using his dynamic developing occurrence research,so he explored the special path in humanity analysis.By using occurrence research,Cassirer came to the functional definition,and transformed the vision of people from the pursuit of the ultimate and constant description to the specific study of the historical generation,evolution and development,and he also put on the nature of the research projects to the grand to the world of human culture by extending all forms of human culture and the people of the sum of the intrinsic activity of the contact symbol to them with the inherent nature of human contact.It is of special value for human life to seek and reflect on "the significance" of self-awareness.Human existence is to create symbols of meaning "life activity" of the world's people is "meaningful" life of the world.At the same time,symbol itself was a very important detail of the Dynasty.Chapter 3 Cassirer's understanding on the nature of human essence activity and cultural worldIn social life,people through the process of needs and creation to understand the world and reflect on their own.Cassirer set up philosophy of symbolic form person based on the symbols that are generated in the process of needs and creation,which contains the logic of people study and go to the expression of a formula:People - the usage of symbols - the formation of cultureHuman and cultural polarization in the subject and object,in the person of the nature and between nature and culture,symbols,activity as an intermediary to ensure that they reach each other.People,symbols,culture is a three-in-one on the nature of the continuum,and "the philosophy of people","philosophy of symbol "and "philosophy of culture" are the same philosophy.Human as a social and cultural structures,always in a certain socio-cultural environment,and must select the society and social values associated goal,which not only affect the implementation of self-worth of content,form and means,and even determine the direct impact the success or failure of individual self-realization.Symbol is a kind of ideology within the scope of things,is submerged in the "symbols" are,so to understand the nature of people is the same abstract.Chapter 4 the similarities and differences of analyses on the nature of human being in Cassirer and MarxCassirer and Marx started with the same dynamic point of view,that is,through creation or practice,to change the world.Therefore,the question of human being is not the ultimate outcome of the unity but the unity of activity,not products but the unity of the unity of the creative process.It is this dynamic of creative activity,to produce the same decomposition of animal nature of human culture the world,and at the same time,the human being created things.However,there are two different places.Cassirer said the nature of people is the use of symbols to create the ideal world;this "ideal world" refers to the "cultural world." As a result,Cassirer on the creation of fragmented material and cultural activity to create the relationship between the activity,apart from the physical world alone,and talk in the cultural world of "creation",which for his assay "On Man" to open a door to slid to idealism.Chapter 5 the new perspective of Cassirer's exploration on the nature of human being Compared to the traditional definition of human being,the definition of Cassirer is a big step forward,but the definition of Cassirer is not absolutely perfect.Even though Cassirer claims,for understanding richness and diversity of the human form, the rational is not the full name,but he consciously around a circle in the end,and takes the path of reason.His theory should not be used to guide people's liberation or the reversion of human nature,and also could not go beyond Marxism.But in any case,the method of symbol philosophy that Cassirer advocated is still refreshing and the successful result of the human mind,so as to provide a new perspective of thinking for that we recognize human being and the human community.