THE HUMAN PERSON AS AN ANIMAL

The Human being as an Animal. 

The human being is an animal, in the sense of his/her being physically endowed of biological and experiential activities.

• Human being has biological and psychical needs, s/he satisfies them in some way by means of direct behavior from psychical experiential acts.
• Her/his psychical activity is complex and flexible, subjected to perceptive, imaginative, affective learning. which render the behavior in more determined and proportionate to the natural environment in satisfying his needs.
  The learning process of the human being plays a very important role, in as much as the human specie is less specialized as s/he occupies a determined environment.
• This would be under the organic aspect than psychical, and exposing herself/himself for longer years under her/his parental care.

The human specie is a very social specie.

• This is evidenced by her/his proper need of the long parental care.
• The learning process of the human being greatly involves his/her relation to the behaviors of the older members and "the experienced" of the group.
• However, by analogy, this is also true to non-human animal specie.
• For example: a monkey transmits to all the members of the group some new ways of behaving itself "invented" by an individual and perpetuating itself so of a little "tradition" proper to a group.

The flexibility and indeterminacy of the human-animal, the role of apprehension, and that of the social life constitute the background on which s/he should know himself/herself.

• Therefore, from the intellective-volitive activity of the human being, grounded on her/his experiential or psychical and biological activities, emerges culture and cultures.