Monday, December 5, 2016
In “Existentialism” and "Is Everything Determined" they both seem to revolve around the idea of how humanity lives its lives and how we can have a great deal of where fate takes us. The essay Is everything Determined kind of goes into the question of whether human control their fate or is it created by God and the author, Stephen Hawking, references the play Julius Caesar. He also goes on to talk about how humanity's aggression might play a factor in how humanity's fate. At the end of the article he says everything is determined. . In
Existentialism the author, Jean-Paul Sartre says that there is no determination
what so ever because humanity is ruled by fate and circumstance. The authors are saying that we should live our lives the way that we feel they should be lived but we all have the right to a difference in our opinions. I agree more with the fact that everything is determined because I believe that God has a set plan for all of us and that He has a plan for each and every single one of us because we're created by Him. This explains why things happen the way we do because it's God's plan taking form and motion, as someone very wise once said "when things seem like they're falling apart they could really be falling into place", and although I do not know who came up with this quote I very much agree with it because I've experienced it firsthand many times throughout my life.
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In Existentialism by Jean-Paul Sartre , the central idea is that each man is responsible for his action and every decision we make in life affects not only us the world as a whole. The essay " Is Everything Determined" by Steven Hawking is based on the fact that every single thing we do in life is determined but we can never be sure of what actually brings about the determination. We basically just go with the flow knowing that there is a ground base for each action we make.
ReplyDeleteFrom my point of view, Sartre is saying that we should live our lives like we have the free will to make our own decisions and act based on what we believe is upright even without the Christian doctrines. He is basically saying we have our lives in our hands and each action or thought that comes from us shouldn't be owed to any other person other than ourselves because it is our own doing. He also says we should live our lives knowing fully well that every individual decision affects everyone around us and it might affect our present, future or the lives of many generations to come after us.
The best point Hawking made from my point of view concerning how to live our lives is that only when we make appropriate conclusions about the world around us would we be likely to survive and reproduce. Nothing is certain. Certainty on one hand will lead to a huge error on the other end just like he said about pressure and speed.
I agree with Sartre's essay on existentialism. This is because
I believe we are fully responsible for every decision we make. It starts in our heads and comes out as an action or word. Yes there might be outside influences but it all boils down to the fact that its a product of us not anyone or anything else. The point he made about everything remaining the same with or without the existence of God can be said to be true to a very large extent because even those that have never read the bible or been to a church or even have the slightest idea of what Christianity is will still have upright values and sometimes even better than Christians. In conclusion we have our lives in our hands and we can shape it anyhow we want to.