Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Humans (Hw #3)

While reading Banach's "The Ethics of Absolute Freedom", I eventually became confused with the whole concept. Yet for some reason a couple of parts has led me to look at Humans and their nature, especially when he brings up "bad faith" where we define ourselfs as unable to do something, for example, "I'll never get an A, I'm just not smart enough." Though I might not reference dirrectly from the text, this whole idea came up as I read.

To tell you the turth, this really isn't the first time this comes up. I've said it before. It went something like "Humans are stubborn, that's the good thing about us. Usually you'd tell a person who is stubborn, 'why are you so stubborn?' But the thing about humans is that we are always in persue of something. No matter how hard the challenge, how hard it seems, humans never give up until we've found the answer." I'm not expecting this to be solid as there are some questionable acts such as Homocide then Suicide. Even I told myself that everyone and everything has some turths and lies about the world, no one is 100% a knight nor 100% a knave.

And for some apparent reason, I keep on getting all rattled up as I try to specifically explain human stubborness. Some forms you may be familar with would include Fortitude, Courege and Self Sacrifice. In such cases where these feelings range strong, humans may be able to break the physical limitation, but only by a little bit. One story I heard one day was that a car fell on a boy's dad and the boy somhow managed to life the car. Usually the boy would not have had the strenght to actually lift the car, but the boy was determined and eventually did it.

Now yes I'm sounding fictional here. I can't show any proof on how this is ture. But there are other examples besides feeling. Even today, we're always searching for answers, as humans, we'll presue it to the very end. Banach is no exception. He is trying to define absolute freedom. What stands in the way is that we all disagree with him somehow. However, Banach will continue to argue with us until he is proven wrong or we are proven wrong. When that happens, the losing side joins with the winning side and together they persue the correct answer. And even with the answer, more questions come up. Heck we may even to a point where we can answer if there's a creator.

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