He means that if the venture needs you to be anyone else but yourself, it will lead to no good. This reveals to me that Thoreau believes strongly in the individual, being yourself, and seeking your own path. This quote is also applicable to modern life because many ventures nowadays require you to conform for some purpose. The second aphorism I remembered is “Our life is frittered away by detail...Simplicity, simplicity.” Thoreau means that our focus and attention to detail now in society and culture do nothing but to waste our lives away needlessly. He believes simplicity is the better choice.
No one wants to be so unlike everyone else. No one wants to not be liked or viewed differently. Everyone simply wants to fit in. In the American Scholar, Margaret Drabble expresses this thought in the quote,” Our desire to conform is greater than our respect for objective facts.” We are constantly affected by external factors that create a view of how we should be living, and, as a result change our internal opinions and mindset. This explains our society today because people are conforming to society from external factors, like our appearance, and by internal factors, like with our opinions.
That returning to nature could never be possible once we’ve been changed from it so. It is in our wiring to seek pleasure, and instincts take over even for the most civilized of people. But not wired into us, not pounded into our brains, but often found, is the need for personal satisfaction. Self-actualization, hope to better ourselves and those around us to some extent. To share in life with those we love, or find someone we hope to love.
I had hoped that as time went on people could have learned to better themselves and become more independent. Sadly that is not the reality that I am now faced with. Now just like any other time people know unjust laws exist; shall they be content to obey them, or shall they endeavor to amend them, and obey them until they have succeeded, or shall they transgress them at once? All men should ask themselves these questions when dealing with the laws of their government. A government in which the majority rule in all cases cannot be based on justice, this is a lesson that still must be learned by people now.
Words like “distinct” help us understand what Mill is trying to get at. He is opposed to customs because he believes that if a person practices customs, they will not develop their own unique personality. He also uses words like “educate or develop” to show that he values the individuals education, development, and their distinct qualities. I agree with Mill’s position on the need for individual development and education, because it is important for us to make our own decisions to develop according to our own needs and not be dependent or reliant on other people. Mill wants us to make our own choices.
All Lennie actions show his innocence. They way he likes to pet, the way Lennie does not understand the real things and the way of how people treats him is what shows that people do not need to be smart to transcend in life. Or the way George protects Lennie and the way George take decisions in his life and Lennie’s life shows that to exceed in life, you do not need to be the smartest person in life. You only need the
I would much rather believe that we have the option to make choices that will lead us through different paths to different turnouts. In this film it seemed as if no matter how many times the protagonist would jump to different points in his life and change certain aspects and manipulate situations the turnout would still be negative. That just seems like a lesson by life telling you that no matter what you try and do, your fate has already been decided. That is why I disagree with determinism, I believe in the freedom make choices and weigh mine depending on what different outcomes there will be. A clockwork orange extra credit In the film a clockwork orange, in this film Alex gets "brainwashed".
S I m p l I c I t y SIMPLICTY, what is simplicity, well according to Thoreau, it living life simple and become to have the belief of Transcendentalism. Well unfortunately for Thoreau his ideas wouldn’t quite fine in today’s society. We need the thing we have in to the world today such as fluoride in the water, computers, medicine, and also telephones. The most important thing that we need is love and attention from family and friends. Thoreau made a very selfish decision while thinking of himself and not thinking of others.
It is a person's psychological and social qualities that characterize humankind, especially in contrast with other living things (Collins; 2009). These characteristics are what sets the world apart and makes each one of us unique. With a person's ability to act freely, each person moves and responds to the world differently. There is no limitations set that can control a person except the way that society wants us to act. However, there will always be a struggle between human nature and society because a human will forever have the ability to act beyond their own means.
Robert Louden stated that as virtue ethics is focused on the individual, it neither resolves nor attempts to resolve big moral dilemmas. It may help the moral agent virtuous but it does not give any answerers relating to an ethical crisis. Scholars such as Aristotle, however, would disagree with this point saying that each individual has to habitually do what is right for a period of time as a result of habitually doing what is right we naturally do what is good. In time, this leads to the growth and well-being of everyone in society. Because of this I would say that this weakness isn’t strong enough to say