Books on the dicotomy of being humans and animals, thinking like humans while living, choosing (sometime rationalizing them, but still), acting animalistic needs and impulses, especially regarding sex but not only

>>24457540 (OP)
The book of Romans from the new testament.

>>24457540 (OP)
It's a false dichotomy. You're a weird naked ape with an excessively overpowered brain who chose to walk on two legs, as a joke, until it got stuck.

comparing yourself midday vs yourself on the brink of sleep

>>24458300
Faggy reductivism.

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>>24458300
Non-homo-sapiens can't laugh or joke so I'm willing to bet humor didn't emerge until something resembling language did

>>24458480
Literally wrong in so many ways

This is like the entire subfield of philosophical anthropology.

>>24458488
>You're wrong (no further comment)
Thank you for confirming I'm right

>>24457540 (OP)
My diary

>>24458491
Other animals laugh u silly billy

>>24458489
Book Recommendations?

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>>24457540 (OP)
Aristotle's De Anima and relevant books/passages in his animal/biology books.

>>24458506
Some might make sounds comparable to a laugh but none actually does so

>>24458898
Bro great apes 100% engage in playful teasing and laugh in amusement, are you dense?

>>24458511
A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans, with A Theory of Meaning by Jakob von Uexküll and Theoretical Biology by Uexküll if you want more of this.

Man: His Nature and Place in the World by Arnold Gehlen

To make the most of these you would want some familiarity with Kant's first critique at least, which itself deals with your question in a certain way.

My favorite perspective on this question is Schiller's in Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man. Here he tries to bring the animal and rational components of humanity together.

The Difference Of Man And The Difference It Makes by Mortimer J. Adler might be another one to look at.