He achieves his successes in knowing that when obstacles arise, he meets those challenges head on and spares no expense at completing them. Nothing gets in the way of his accomplishment and deviation from that plan is perceived as failure The saint, on the other hand, sees life at a different angle. His definition of his life goals are linked to his connections with others. His primary purpose in life is not centered on what he has to gain but more so how his success will fortify the relationships that he holds dear. The saint’s focus is in being able to reach heights in life by moving with love as the driving force.
Comparison: Everyman and The Second Shepherd’s Play Everyman and The Second Shepherds' Play both deal with the idea of redemption. They remind the reader that good deeds are important. They also reinforce the idea that we must shun material concerns to be redeemed. The world is imperfect, and the only way we can make ourselves perfect and worthy of redemption is by not worrying about our material well being and performing good deeds. Everyman places his faith in material things, his friends, relatives and goods.
Both heroes, though differing in time period, display similar qualities in helping humanity, having a genuine reasoning for their efforts, and using their strengths to overcome others. Despite a gap in time period and different personas, the intentions of each hero are vital for accomplishments and very similar, even preceding any phenomena of physical strength or verbal oration. Rooted within each is the desire to improve the world for others, relative to his time. The intentions of Martin Luther King would not be relevant in the time of Beowulf, but their values coincide. King was determined to abolish any segregation.
John or also known as The Savage really like how all the factors of positives and negatives in life which life is worth living for. This makes me think that we shouldn’t try to find the perfect life with no problems at all because this books shows us that that is not the way to take to be able to change our life for the better and be able to enjoy our lives. Instead, as how I interpreted this amazing book, we should be searching for the perfectly imperfect lives with the perfect problems that make life enjoyable or in better terms life more lifelike. I honestly feel that there is no perfect life and if it was it shouldn’t considered being alive at all. The book also shows some abnormal actions that would be considered different in our time but it is normal in that world.
Taking into account the sensuous nature of human beings, Kant states that it is very difficult for a man to be righteous without hope. Immortality guarantees this hope and ensures that there is a place sufficient for the reckoning of happiness in proportion to worthiness to be happy. The postulate of freedom is given a special position among the other two postulates. Freedom is an apriori that we do not understand but we know it as the condition of the moral law which we do know. It is because of freedom that God and Immortality gain objective reality and legitimacy and subjective necessity.
The character Peter Keating embodies altruism and only feels he shouldn’t exist for his own sake but the services that he receives from others reason for existing is for fame and approval for others. Peter Keating lives off of his good looks, success and people around him. To have resources to only justify his own existence, self- sacrifice is only his highest right of responsibility, benefit, and importance. Peter will do whatever it takes to succeed in this world even if it means stealing, lying, or Killing. "He had forgotten his first building, and the fear and doubt of its birth.
And by being forgiving to yourself and making amends for your wrongdoings, you can easily move on in your life. Religion is simply a road-map for one’s spirituality. Ignoring this single most important point will head a person away from a spiritual life (for those who don’t know: spirituality has NOTHING to do with religion). Spirituality is essentially aiming to improve one’s personal well-being and personal development. So yes it doesn't matter if you’re Atheist, Agnostic, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, or Pagan- all have potential to be spiritual.
Albert Camus presents an unorthodox and absurdist approach towards analyzing “The Myth of Sisyphus”. He deems Sisyphus as an absurdist hero in an attempt to convey an absurdist philosophy of life. The myth entails an idea that life ultimately has no meaning, and in order to achieve happiness in life we must accept the meaningless of life. If we are devoid of hope to achieve something preferable compared to our current position in life, then we will live in pleasure. If we accept in the end, that there is no preferable meaning of life that is to be attained, then we can accept our fate without grief.
It will steal everything from you. You must live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! There is nothing in the world as important as youth!” (pg11) It is this belief, when imparted to Dorian, that drives him to make the wish that ultimately damns him. When Dorian realizes that he will keep his youthful appearance regardless of whatever immoral actions he indulges in, he considers himself free of the moral constraints faced by ordinary men.
Philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau supported the true goodness of humanity and conceived that “man is born free and everywhere else he is in chains.” Man can be restricted by his circumstances, his economic state, his family, his nationality, and the race he belongs to, but that does not mean his basic human nature is evil. The choices and way an individual acts depend greatly on what they are exposed to from the moment they are conceived, to the time that their moral backbone is set in place. If they are only shown one way of life, their chances of seeing the world differently only