However, Vincent doesn’t commit an act of hypocrisy in becoming a “valid”, instead he focusses on what can be done in order to succeed. The message that Gattaca portrays is that it is not who you are, but rather, what you do that determines your success in life. Vincent achieves his dream through sheer courage and determination. He does not have the assistance of superior genetic engineering. He achieves in spite of a society that is designed to ensure that he fails in any attempts to better himself.
For one reason owning private property breaks down the state of equity where no one person as more than another. And if mankind has a right to their own preservation do they need the consent of every man in order to appropriate, can he not enclose property without the consent of his fellow commoners. But when God gave man reason to make to make use of nature to the best advantages of life and convenience that made reason for the use and need of private property, therefore not needing the consent of his fellow commoners. If humans fail to use nature to the best advantage we as humans are committing a sin. Even if the state of equity is broken down it is up to each individual to inquire what he needs it is not up to all of mankind to provide for each other.
A doctor does not have the right to do this because he or she is not God and should not ‘play God’. This is why euthanasia is opposed. Followers of Natural Law would argue that euthanasia, with regards to the quality of life, might end a person’s suffering which was causing them to have poor quality life, but it does not consider that a person could have gotten better if they were not euthanized and their quality of life could have improved. This is why a follower would object to euthanasia. The case study of Dr Nigel Cox can be used.
Rand says “Reality, the external world, exists independent of man’s consciousness, independent of any observer’s knowledge, beliefs, feelings, desires or fears…” (qtd. The Ayn Rand Institute 1). Consciousness, therefore, is to distinguish reality, not to fashion or form it around a personal belief. Consequently, Objectivists reject all forms of a supernatural or any beliefs unfounded in fact. In the quote below Rand explains why she rejects religion outright, and she believes man himself deserves the attention: Just as religion has preempted the field of ethics, turning morality against man, so it has usurped the highest moral concepts of our language, placing them outside this earth and beyond man’s reach.
Free will means that God does not have any set destiny for us. If God were to create free agents that could only choose good, that would mean that God laid out a destiny of good for all agents. Even though God is omniscient, free will is still possible because while God may know the choices we are going to make, he is not the cause of them. Since God does not choose or cause our destiny, we still have free will. In response to the option in which God creates a world with free agents and no evil, a world with no evil would mean a world with no good, so it would be impossible for God to create a free agents that only choose good, since evil does not exist.
CHAPTER 3 THE STATE AT ITS CIVILITY AND THE HOBBESIAN GROUNDS OF POLITICAL OBLIGATION INTRODUCTION Without mincing words, previous chapters have preoccupied themselves with and launched us extensively into a consideration of the conceptualization of political obligation and sovereignty, and an overview of the nature of the pre-civil state characterized by unbearable miserableness and tomblike war. As a panacea to man’s natural condition, “Hobbes sees a way out of this unhappy predicament, a way which employs the passions and the reason of the natural condition as the basis of an artificial structure, the Commonwealth.” Thus, this escape of man from this natural state is neither non-haphazard nor illegitimate in the sense that the transition is unscientific or/and unhealthy for man. It is rather a law-bound, contract-sanctioned and consent-willed transition. Thus, Collison succinctly describes and recounts Hobbes’ description of the necessity for the transition from the warring state, thus: ‘that the only way to secure perpetual peace is for people to covenant together to place themselves under so powerful a sovereign authority that rebellion against its command is virtually impossible.’ The implication of this is that the sovereign is empowered and authorized by and for the people’s life insurance. However, Hobbes maintains that the sovereign is not party to the initial contract or covenant made by men, but bound by natural law which enjoins men to seek peace, stability and justice.
Huxley demonstrates how in mankind’s attempt to achieve a utopia, values such as freedom and nature may be given up, creating a ‘nightmarish’ world instead. “A love of nature keeps no factories busy. It was decided to abolish the love of nature.” Through the use of ridicule on how humanity tends to destroy all potential problems as opposed to actually facing them, Huxley displays that if humans continue this trend, then during mankind’s pursuit for a perfect world, nature as a whole may be completely destroyed, as it doesn’t aid the advance of society technologically. Furthermore, Huxley implicates that in order for society to achieve ‘absolute harmony’; one of the major sacrifices that must be made, is out freedom. “We also predestine and condition.” The words “predestine” and “condition” invokes feelings in the reader that lives are being controlled, and that decisions in the world are non-flexible and choices has been relinquished by
The main point that Jung makes in relation to communism by actually getting people to literally having self-knowledge, connecting this to religious experience that becomes the only counter-balance to a human being and society, it is the unconscious areas of ourselves that we have absolutely no knowledge about whatsoever, as our only conception for gaining the experience. Jung is stating these kinds of experiences can’t be found plainly, an individual must self-explore create his own weltanschauung. A human being knows and understands his distinction from animals and wild beasts by anatomical and physiological differences, but as an aware and conscious being, lacks all the requirement for his own self-judgement. Humanity does not have another self-aware being to compare to, therefore consciousness will remain an unsolvable puzzle. Without consciousness there would be no world, because we wouldn’t be aware of it “for the world exists for [all of] us in so far a it is consciously reflected by a psyche “Consciousness is a precondition of
Dissect the four-part definition of “sacred” in terms of its strengths and weaknesses. Set apart-The strength is that the sacred is holy which I support and should not be mixed with worldly staff on the other hand its weak because all things set apart do not necessarily mean they are sacred. Beyond what human can violate-The strength is that human beings cannot affect the nature of it in terms of origin and birth. They cannot kill it because of the nature associated to it. On the other hand its weakness is that human can affect it in other aspects besides deathless and birth less nature but in definition they do not recognize that.
Instead of trying to understand why Dax was acting the way he was, the doctors instead insisted that he was acting like a child and was unable to make the decision for himself. Even Dr. Larson went against Dax’s psychiatrist Dr. White in his words stating that Dax was sane in his judgments. They lacked any morality and the main focus of this relationship was not to adhere to Dax’s needs. These among other reasons that I have previously stated are factors as to why the treatment given to Dax was not ethically permissible in the sense of Dax’s autonomy. The patient’s beliefs and values should never come into question with this mutual relationship, which is exactly the opposite of what happened