"Man is a social, political and communal being (Aristotle's politikòn zoon), a being endowed with reason, language and the capacity for calculation (Aristotle's zoon logon echon), a being with an uncontrollable and absolute need for recognition by others (Hegel, but also Lévinas), a generic being that designs its own social configuration (the ontology of Karl Marx), and finally a highly symbolic animal (Cassirer)."