Nicole Colunga
August 1, 2015
Philosophy – 2361
We are Human The “Problem with Evil” told by Ivan Karamazov thinks that children are innocent and adults are not. He thinks we can love our children when they are near but we can only love our neighbor or a stranger from a distance. Innocence in his point of view has to do with the intention of a person rather than the aftermath of the act. It is like is there such there as a selfless deed? Even if you do an act from another person you still feel satisfaction that you did something from helping another person, making it selfish because you feel good. With a child’s innocence, the child is innocent because the child does not mean to do bad things because the child does not know the action is …show more content…
Ivan’s view that God created the world but rejects all everything he created in it, I disagree with. God created the world, even with the flaws and terrible things along with all the innocent things. There needs to be a balance, in life there are choices, your choices and you will make wrong decisions and you will do evil things, it doesn’t make you evil, it makes you human. We are not God’s, we are not saints, we are not perfect. It doesn’t make us evil, it is not a pressing problem to humans. The problem is not balancing the good acts with the evil acts. With children, children are naïve and innocent until they are exposed to bad things, then they turn into adults. There are even evil children that exist but most children their view on the world and how they trust people and see only black and white not grey makes them great, but there are things that will challenge them. From Ivan’s viewpoint of evil, there is no pressing problem, it makes us human. For him to leave the earth and jump ship is not the …show more content…
We have free will, and there is a burden of having it, we have to make our own choices. With free will we choose whether it believe in God or not, and whether to pursue good or evil. Free will is a blessing and a cruise, one that haunts people who choose to doubt God’s existence. Free will can be seen as a curse because it put pressure on humanity to voluntarily reject good intensions. Ivan argues that most people are too weak to make choices to good, and that people are doomed to live unhappy lives that end in eternal damnation. That humans can’t handle the responsibility that comes with choice, and that humans would prefer to have someone tell them what to do and not give them a choice. For example if somebody were to tell you to steal, it is not your fault, you were just following orders and it was not your choice. This type of view is based on the “rebels” and a rebel himself Ivan will use their free will to defy
August 1, 2015
Philosophy – 2361
We are Human The “Problem with Evil” told by Ivan Karamazov thinks that children are innocent and adults are not. He thinks we can love our children when they are near but we can only love our neighbor or a stranger from a distance. Innocence in his point of view has to do with the intention of a person rather than the aftermath of the act. It is like is there such there as a selfless deed? Even if you do an act from another person you still feel satisfaction that you did something from helping another person, making it selfish because you feel good. With a child’s innocence, the child is innocent because the child does not mean to do bad things because the child does not know the action is …show more content…
Ivan’s view that God created the world but rejects all everything he created in it, I disagree with. God created the world, even with the flaws and terrible things along with all the innocent things. There needs to be a balance, in life there are choices, your choices and you will make wrong decisions and you will do evil things, it doesn’t make you evil, it makes you human. We are not God’s, we are not saints, we are not perfect. It doesn’t make us evil, it is not a pressing problem to humans. The problem is not balancing the good acts with the evil acts. With children, children are naïve and innocent until they are exposed to bad things, then they turn into adults. There are even evil children that exist but most children their view on the world and how they trust people and see only black and white not grey makes them great, but there are things that will challenge them. From Ivan’s viewpoint of evil, there is no pressing problem, it makes us human. For him to leave the earth and jump ship is not the …show more content…
We have free will, and there is a burden of having it, we have to make our own choices. With free will we choose whether it believe in God or not, and whether to pursue good or evil. Free will is a blessing and a cruise, one that haunts people who choose to doubt God’s existence. Free will can be seen as a curse because it put pressure on humanity to voluntarily reject good intensions. Ivan argues that most people are too weak to make choices to good, and that people are doomed to live unhappy lives that end in eternal damnation. That humans can’t handle the responsibility that comes with choice, and that humans would prefer to have someone tell them what to do and not give them a choice. For example if somebody were to tell you to steal, it is not your fault, you were just following orders and it was not your choice. This type of view is based on the “rebels” and a rebel himself Ivan will use their free will to defy