VALUES OF THE HUMAN BEING

Chicken duck
Once upon a time there was a mother named Pita,
who was in a hurry to accommodate her nest, and
when she saw that everything was in order, she
wanted to rest for a moment, to stretch her wings and
to disengage her legs, so she went to look for
something eat; While she was not there came Aunt
Celia, a very compassionate woman, who had found a
chicken egg and not knowing what to do with it
decided to place it in the nest of the paw Pita.
The days passed and all the eggs were hatched, as
you imagine, among the children of the paw Pita there
was a chick, she cleaned the feathers, brought food to
him, warmed it with its wings, and of course the chick
was happy with his mother Paw and his brothers
ducklings. Until one day, the mother paw it occurred
to her that it was time for her little children to learn to
swim. Early in the morning, she encouraged her
children, who followed her to the river, and there one
by one she began her lessons.
But oh! Sad reality, among the children of the Pita leg,
there was one, the chick that did not have the same
nature as the other ducklings and so ... drowned.

UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA
METROPOLITANA DE PUEBLA
 VALUES OF THE HUMAN BEING
PROFESSOR: AIRAM PAOLA RAMOS VALADEZ
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QUESTIONNAIRE ABOUT THE READING “CHICKEN DUCK”

Answer the following questions.
1. What was the consequence of the chick not knowing its nature?

2. Why is it important as human beings to recognize who we are and

what we are not?

3. To have human nature implies being an intelligent being, with free

will, who has the responsibility to know and act according to what is. Do
you act according to your human nature? Why?

4. What reflection does this reading leave you?

The core characteristics

All people have(feelings,
The form a human
that nature
we use with
for talk your different
and
psychology,
shapes, things that you
express ourselves like, custom,
behaviors) shared by thoughts,
personality. people
 Cross-cultural understanding is one rather rare
way in which our human nature bodies and
lives can be carried forward.

I argue that our nature, bodies, and

experiences have an order that is The higher animals
much more intricate than the overt already live much more
patterns, cultural or personal complexly than could ever
be derived from our
cultural patterns alone.

That order is for further Cultural patterns —

carrying forward by different or any patterns —
patterns, and sometimes must never be
creative of different patterns. treated as if they
were axioms, as if
experience just The cultural patterns only
derives from them. modify and elaborate our
bodily living and carry it
forward. I argue that we
have to look how they do
that — in various manners
of process.