The Symbolic Animal

In this blog I am going to talk about what Fernando Savater talks of Giovani Pico della Mirandola, I think what he says about human, being the most happy animals is interesting and very original also that everything that exist occupies a place by god, but what really keep me into thinking was that he says that "the mos wonderful thing about man is that he remains open and undetermined" by this he means that everything in this world occupies a place and it can not be changed but God onle half-created humans so we can by ourself define what or whom we want to be if we want to choose the right pad or the bad one. I agree what Giovani sais human are capable of doing tremendous things to the world through technological ability or rational language and I also agree when he says that "man`s dignity derives from his being the "happiest most fortunate of creatures" while Sophocles will never agree to this. In this chapter I really started questioning that maybe we are animals but a really smart race,is true what Fernando says that maybe we give ourself animals names for example when someone is a coward they call him chicken or when someone is ignorant they call him asses but in the other hand as Fernando says I want to have some characteristics of some animals like courage, loyalty, etc.