Philosophy of Human Being.

Who is a Human being? Why is he/she born in this world? What are his/her duties? These questions were tried to be answered ever since the man started to think! Different belief systems gave different answers, many culminated in the formation of religions and many others were the tools of the rationalist reformers of that times. These things were not just philosophies, but were the vision for the next generation. One such vision, a philosophy of human being that inspired people across centuries was that of Karl Max . Marx wrote in his doctoral thesis that “He who no longer finds pleasure in building the whole world with his own forces, in being a world creator instead of revolving forever inside his own skin, on him the spirit has spoken its anathema”. simply, Marx believed a human being should be a world creator.

Lets stop here and analyse the philosophy of Marx. Is really a man a should be a world creator? Is this the sole difference between human beings and other animals?

If we plainly see, we might be tempted to answer “NO”. We might substantiate by saying that “Man is Just a social animal. The difference between a man and other animals is his/her social consciousness ie, a consciousness that is developed by virtue of living in a society. That’s it”. Can we take this argument as a valid one? If we do, then how do the social forces work? Do the arbitrary actions of human beings structure themselves to form a social force or it is planned by some individuals? If we say, we don’t try to create the world we live in, it automatically means that social forces structure themselves naturally determined by some natural law. In that case what we do? We just live in the boundaries of some social structure which we haven’t formed and live under the whips and whims of some social web of forces which we didn’t design. Then what is the difference between us and animals in a zoo? OK, if we reconcile our earlier answer and now say, “I don’t create , but my forefathers did or my leaders do and I follow”, then again “what we do personally; just follow others as a flock of sheep? what else? again there is no difference between us and animals.

Honestly speaking, only this attitude; the attitude of shaping the world we live in; the attitude of creating our own social forces, designing our own social structures, attitude of creating a harmonious environment not just for us but also for the future society, MUST differentiate a man from animal. It is not how much you read; how much one earn; how well one perform; but how much zeal one has in him/her to create or contribute his part in creating a peaceful, harmonious poverty less world, makes one as a true human being.

IT IS NOT THE KNOWLEDGE BUT ATTITUDE DEFINES A MAN.