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Kenneth Burke’s Definition of Humanity

Human beings are
The symbol-using (symbol-making, symbol mis-using) animals
Inventors of the negative (or moralized by the negative)
Separated from their natural condition by instruments of their own making
Goaded by the spirit of hierarchy (or moved by the sense of order)
And rotten with perfection.