Human beings unlike animals and aquatic species were given an additional blessing of
controlling nature. Human beings were given a gift of reason, they can talk, develop dialects
and co-create with God or simply add on what God had created. Indeed, since creation they
have built cities some called Holy cities, empires, nation states, machines and so on. This was
expected of them as responsible citizens on earth. Given the fact that they were given reason to
differentiate the bad from good, they were and are expected to take good care of animals,
aquatics and plants. But the question is, to what extent have human beings exhibited reason in
taking good care of these species. Are you satisfied with the way human beings are co-creating?
And if yes or no, what justification(s) do you have for your answer.
Reason is a great and perhaps an eternal issue that human beings have pondered on through
history, different definitions of the phenomenon of reason have been posited by different
philosophers, scholars and historians through ages and generations, to Proudfoot, Michael
(2010). The Routledge dictionary of philosophy. A. R. Lacey, A. R. Lacey (4th ed.). London:
Routledge. p. 341 Reason is “ general faculty common to all or nearly all humans...this faculty
has seemed to be of two sorts, a faculty of intuition by which one 'sees' truths or abstract
things ('essences' or universals, etc.), and a faculty of reasoning, i.e. passing from premises to a
conclusion (discursive reason). The verb 'reason is confined to this latter sense, which is now
anyway the commonest for the noun too”. Rescher, Nicholas (2005). The Oxford companion to
philosophy. Ted Honderich (2nd ed.). The deliberations above are suffice to appreciate reason
as among other things the general human instinct for truth-seeking and problem solving.
Hintikka, J. "Philosophy of logic" Reasoning is associated with the acts of thinking and cognition,
and involves the use of one's intellect. The field of logic studies the ways in which humans can
use formal reasoning to produce logically valid arguments. Reasoning may be subdivided
into forms of logical reasoning, such as: deductive reasoning, inductive reasoning,
and abductive reasoning. Human beings unlike other creatures are capable of reason which sets
them above all others but comes with an ultimate responsibility to take good care of other
creatures created under them in class not only for their wellbeing but rather for the wellbeing
of the species as well for purposes of sustainability.
Reason ought to be the driving force behind controlling the species that were literally left in the
hands of human being
N.B: There are different schools of thoughts that hold different opinions on creation i.e.
philosophers both medieval and modern, scientists who hold a natural human evolutions big
bang theory, and religious people who would accept with the question. So be mindful that in
any group, contradictions will arise.
