"What makes us human" is our incomprehensible value to God. Our Need for Salvation. Recent natural disasters affecting the southern United States, Indonesia, and Pakistan have emphasized the need to save humans in times of distress. read more
These collective differences seem to make up the human "soul," and what makes humans human. What exactly defines and constitutes the soul is a question philosophers have pondered since ancient times. read more
Something must have happened in our evolution, Tomasello says, to make humans increasingly reliant on each other. Our brains needed fuel to get bigger and so collaborative hunting may have played a key role in that. read more
One of the key characteristics that makes us human appears to be that we can think about alternative futures and make deliberate choices accordingly. Creatures without such a capacity cannot be bound into a social contract and take moral responsibility. read more