Abstract
This article aims to analyze how the nonhuman animal presents itself as an opening for the understanding of the phenomenon of life and, more specifically, how it represents the first interrogation capable of leading the human being to an understanding of his own animality. In order to do so, we will analyze the theses of Hans Jonas, in order to verify how this author, by putting the human in the sphere of life in general, ends up favoring a complete understanding of the vital phenomenon, which ultimately enables man to formulate the question about the nonhuman animal, since with it shares the condition from which the question can be formulated: both are alive.
Keywords:
animal; human; animality; opening; Hans Jonas