[henry quirk]

“'Peace' is not a concept limited to humanity.”


Of course it is, insofar as we know: as concept (something rooted in *language) 'peace' is uniquely human.

Certainly whales and orangutans may have something analogous to the concept, but this is only a guess.

We, however, 'know' humans truck in peace...this whole thread is an example of it.


*Language is one of the tools the human individual uses in apprehending the world. As signifier, the individual names the world, in some fashion making the world his own by giving it, the world, significance. This is true not only for the objective world, but also the esoteric one, that is, ideas and concepts (fictions) having no independent realness.

Peace, as construct, idea, fiction, is one such 'named' and signified thing.