What Makes Man Special?
Question: If we look at a flock of animals, for example, they live in a kind of a communist society where everything is communal. Is man a mutation of nature, a special being in which the ego suddenly began to develop?
Answer: Man, in his animal state, is an ordinary being. But there is human egoism in him, which raises him above nature.
In all of nature—inanimate, vegetative, and animate—there is no egoism; it boils down to instinct, the desire to survive. The instinctive desire for survival, the fulfillment of the rigid laws of nature, exists on these levels like on a hard disk, as in a permanent memory, and is not considered egoism.
Egoism is a desire for excess, when I want more than I need for my material existence. And if I naturally fight for my existence, this is not considered egoism.
The egoistic additive makes man special. Therefore, he stands out from the number of animals and begins to develop as a special being.
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From KabTV’s “The Last Generation” 11/13/17
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