Talk:Humanity (disambiguation)

Distinguishes

Humanity ... “characteristically human, or to that which distinguishes human beings from animals or from their animal nature” Some of the things that distinguishes humans from other animals are ;

Altruism – although it is seen in other animals it never reached such heights or complexity as in humans. Help to others in need ranges from neighbours and strangers to sophisticated organizations providing international aid, much of which is voluntary. Health care and care to aged and invalids are never observed in other species yet form an integral part of human society.

Co-operation – is observed in other social animals, but humans distinguish themselves as the least driven by hormones and other biological systems, as are bees and ants, and yet the most complex. Even in war they have developed sophisticated extraordinary co-operation. To discover electricity and its applications, to generate and distribute it, to mine for the materials and manufacture the tools and equipment, often in remote parts of the globe, truly distinguishes humans from other animals.

Knowledge, Communication and “Social” Memory – Humans have demonstrated an unparalleled understanding of the laws of the universe. Many of these are abstract in that while you cannot see and atom humans have devised methods to discover their properties. This information is stored and transmitted from generation to generation who expand on this knowledge. Humans have institutions, which busily store, teach and add to this knowledge.

Specialization and adaptation – It is not uncommon to find specialization and adaptation in other animals, but in humans it is unparalleled in the animal kingdom. It is unconstrained as in other animals.

Socialization – One of the things that humans struggle with is their unique ability to modify their innate, animal behaviour by, seemingly paradoxial, mature, rational, learned responses that has allowed the development of sophisticated social structures. This is the area of philosophy and wisdom unobserved in other animals. Murder, jealousy, envy and the like can be curbed. Good laws, while restricting freedom [[1]] on one hand, allow other greater liberty and mediate against chaos.

This is just a few points that come to mind, not a comprehensive list.

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nice stub! But how about some information about when the term first emerged, and who propmoted its use and why? Slrubenstein

Is this "distinction" question going anywhere?

Without this, the otherwise interesting main article seems quite incomplete. --jb 18:31, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

What is this article about, do the editors know?

Is humanity what we have that animals dont have? or is this article a list of things we r proud of. aesthetic is not unique to humans, many birds have a serious disposition to style , many animals make serious judgements like that bird that weaves nest etc. communication and religion; elephants have that, Termites build cities with A/c, ac. Lions wage war, animals get jealous, the debate is innate verses culture or learned behaviour, but why do we give higher value you to innate and learned, these r the things that should be discussed here. the article has no direction. --HalaTruth(ሀላካሕ) 23:54, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Human beings or humanity, humanity has different meanings, humanity = human beings or humanity meaning the social kidness unique to human beings which is usually against biology and thus a display of higher intellegence and power of choice. like killing yourself to save your child, unselfish acts which do not benifit the individual, so this needs clarity. because the intro states this, but yet the content rabbles on about human culture, human art, human activities.--HalaTruth(ሀላካሕ) 00:01, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

do you?

Thihnk that human is a cel ? if not why? Humanity is equated to its elements?

The complexity of assembly distinguish higher level of complexity form its elements. Thous we have atoms and this is not equal to particles, particles build organella, then next cels, thisue, organs, organism, one of it is a human. Humans come and gone the humanity is.

Who don’t want to see the forest behind the trees? Nasz 19:55, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

disambiguation

My comments transferred from the AfD discussion:

This article should be deleted and replaced with a disambiguation. A redirect to human or human nature will not be sufficient, as humanity has multiple distinct and notable meanings. Please see User:Fixer1234/Humanity for a draft of a replacement for this page. Fixer1234 20:19, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

I have turned edited the page to follow the guidelines in MoS:DP and WP:D. Note that disambiguation pages should not include dictionary definitions. They should not contain much content and are merely tools to let the user find what he wants quickly. I also deleted the reference to Kant because it is a piece of trivia. Nothing distinctive about his use, or if there is, it should be covered in an article, not a disamb page. nadav 15:25, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Disambiguation of Humanity - Mankind - Human Race

A lot of links, that points to Humanity, has the meaning "Humanity/Mankind/Human Race" and needs disambiguation. Would it best to make a very broad article, or should we choose to deliberately link to a disambiguation page? Mankind and Human Race are dab's and Human race redirects to Human. Any thoughts? --Leo Laursen ( T | C ) 10:22, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Move discussion in progress

There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Humanity which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RMCD bot 14:47, 15 December 2020 (UTC)