Human Construction

I believe that humans have created the wording and technical terms for all of these examples in the Final Q. The only terms that I would place in the third category is apples and electrons. Apples and electrons are physical objects that were not at all created by humans. They would exist with or without human’s existence.

In the second category which is: those that are only partly a human construction, I placed the color red, science, time, and music. I originally placed the color red in this category, because I believed that red’s existence is a combination of human perception and the universe. But after discussing this topic in class, I am now more inclined to place red in category three, those that are not at all human construction. I tend to believe that even if humans did not exist, the world would still be full of color. I believe that science is a combination of both humans and nature. It is evident that science is not a completely human creation because nature is science! But, science in nature changed into something greater because of humans. I believe time is another dimension that humans are unable to explain and thus they created a clock to explain and try to make sense of time. I’m not sure if time would exist without human existence, but I tend to believe that it wouldn’t. I believe that music is organized sound, such as nature, and when humans heard it, they tried to re-create it. I think that music exists in its original state in nature, and when humans heard this noise, they tried to re-create it.

In the first category I put market capitalism, patriotism, morality, the number three, war, and god. I believe that all of these terms were strictly created by humans. Market capitalism is strictly a human creation, as it does not exist in nature in the same state. Although many animals may exhibit some of the characteristics of capitalism, it is not the same at human market capitalism. I view patriotism to be a human set of values and that it does not exist in nature. The Loyalty that animals exhibit for their territories, young, and food is not the same loyalty and love for one’s country that is found in human patriotism. Animals are born with internal instincts that make them become territorial, which should not be confused with patriotism. Morality is just like patriotism since it is strictly a human value. Morality would not exist in this world if humans did not exist, thus it falls within the category of human creation. Animals do not have morals or ethics because they do not know the difference between right and wrong. Just because parts of patriotism and morality exist outside of human life, does not mean that it is an existing value.

The number three was also entirely created by humans. I do not see how the number three would exist without human existence, since humans created the number system. I also believe that humans created war, since war has never existed without humans. Unless, someone considers nature’s attacks on the world to be war, such as hurricanes and tornadoes. God was a term I struggled to place in any of the categories. I agree with what someone had suggested in class, that if you believe in God, then you believe that he created humans. Thus, if you believe in god, then humans could not have created the god. On the other hand, if you do not believe in god, you could believe that humans created the concept of god. Perhaps the idea of god was created to help with human suffering and to give people something to believe in and look forward to. Either way, I don’t know.


I found this final Q to be very interesting and I wish we had more time to discuss it in class.