PHILOSOPHY - Man According to philosophers

Thales

Man, born from other animals, quickly finds nourishment for themselves

Socrates

Man’s body comes from his world of matter

Plato

Man is a knower and a possessor of an immortal soul

Aristotle

Man is a rational and social animal

St. Augustine

Man is a great mystery

St. Thomas Aquinas

Man is a creature of God

Hindu

Man is the subject as well as the object man possesses the atman or soul, the highest aspect of what is understood as the principle of life. It is the innermost essence of man of knowledge.

Buddhism

Man is subject to the law of all things rise, decay and fall. There is no soul. There is no permanence.

Confucianism

Man is regarded as a moral being as a social being. A true man is a noble man. Man is expected to possess four virtues: human-heartedness, righteousness, ritual or propriety and wisdom.

Taoism

Every man can be a sage. The perfect man, the happy man

Christianity

the power of change, cannot be done by human beings alone, but is achieved with cooperation with God.

Thielhard De Chardin

Man is the significant link between the physical order and the spiritual one

Jean Paul Sartre and Gabriel Marcel

Man is a “being-in-the-world”

Martin Heidigger

Man is being there, part of this world, part of the next

Martin Buber

Man is the subject, as well as the object of knowledge