§1. The idea of the human being and the personality

Grade 9 State and Law topic: '§1. The idea of the human being and the personality' (pp. 5–9, O. B. Saalaev). A human being is nature's highest product. A person has many biological needs: breathing, eating, sleeping. At the same time a human being is a social creature: every child has a brain for thinking and the organs of speech, but can learn to think and speak only in society. What sets human beings apart from animals is the ability to make and use tools, a brain of the most complex structure and the ability to work creatively. No two people on earth are exactly alike — every person is unrepeatable and unique. A personality is an individual fully ready to carry out their social roles. An individual is a separate living being that lives on its own; individuality is the unrepeatable features of that separate being. Nobody is born a personality; one becomes one.