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What is the function of human will in relationship between good and evil?
February 24, 2009 - 09:45 AM
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Re: What is the function of human will in relationship between good and evil?
February 24, 2009 - 11:44 AM
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what do you mean by "human will"---are you referring to the concept of freewill versus biological determinism OR something else all together?
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Re: What is the function of human will in relationship between good and evil?
March 12, 2009 - 07:25 PM
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If human beings achieve self censorship they are able to make "good" decisions that have a positive effect on their suroundings. However, if they make "poor" decisions that have detrimental effects it leaves a bad taste. It really is as simple as that. Experience allows an individual to make informed choices. Good and evil are religious concepts, and it could be argued that therefore they don't actually exist per se. However we all know from experience that getting a gun and haphazardly slaughtering 39 people for no good reason is wrong. Some will call this evil. Splitting hairs makes no difference, doing something like that is not beneficial to anyone. Not the dead or the killer.
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March 24, 2009 - 11:20 AM
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What is the difference between Nationality and Enthicity?
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Re: What is the function of human will in relationship between good and evil?
March 24, 2009 - 09:03 PM
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Nationality is based on the country someone has citizenship for/and or citizen rights specific to that country.
Ethnicity is an association or affliction to a specific cultural group. However this concept is often highly contested because it is often unclear how people become associated with on ethnicity over another. Is it because people share the same language? Like the same foods? Wear similar clothing styles? Live in the same area? Have similar physical appearances??? Nobody really knows...but in simple terms ethnicity, like race, and even nationality to some extent, is just another attempt at distinguishing people in terms of "us" and "them"!
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Re: What is the function of human will in relationship between good and evil?
March 27, 2009 - 04:21 PM
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kurshauna wrote:
I don't think experience along can guide us down the right direction I mean what if a person's experiences all through life was to hate and mistreat a group of people who look differently from them. If this individual is always praised for being hateful and thus never experienced any negative consequences for their actions, experience alone would likely never compel them to stop. But that's just how I understand life to be...
i instead beliefe that experiences influences us a lot,
i would also say that they form our character and because of them we are who we are
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Re: What is the function of human will in relationship between good and evil?
March 27, 2009 - 11:43 PM
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I heard a good saying attributed to the Cherokee Native Americans. it says that within everyone there is a battle between two wolves, one evil and one good. the one that wins is the one that you feed the most.
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Re: What is the function of human will in relationship between good and evil?
March 30, 2009 - 12:11 PM
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I like that saying...it makes alot of sense!
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Re: What is the function of human will in relationship between good and evil?
April 17, 2009 - 12:16 AM
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I don't know how to answer it.
But one thing is that human is not an angel. He is not an evil too.
So as in economy's saying. He is a middleman
This post was edited on: 2009-04-17 at 12:17 AM by: dotdot
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Re: What is the function of human will in relationship between good and evil?
April 17, 2009 - 02:04 AM
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i think the human will comes in because we have the ability to choose between evil and good.... the human will is also obvious because man is not completely good or completely evil. which means that our human will enables you nto sometimes choose good over evil aor evil over good.... in a christian perseperctive we say than man is naturally bound to be evil but Christ redeemed us to be good i.e. gave us the ability to be good... so it is our choice to choose. whether to remain evil or to be good.. I think so.... 9 this is good topic, i think i need to write something about it....)
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Re: What is the function of human will in relationship between good and evil?
April 18, 2009 - 01:24 AM
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Good idea Takondwa, I think you should write about it.
I was even thinking as I was reading through this discussion that maybe the concept of "freewill" is also intimately related to the concept of "freedom of expression". Is it our right to choose or are we without a choice in how we express ourselves to the world?
Just something to think about.
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