With that being said, the gods strongly pervade their form of justice throughout the human society. In comparison with today’s justice, the actions portrayed from the gods would be too cruel and in fact illegal. We have to ask ourselves, is it the fact that because the human society of The Odyssey cannot stand up against the power of the gods that justice permeates? In reading The Odyssey, I have found a degree of caution due to strong fear the humans feel towards the gods. Acceptance of the gods actions are mainly because of great fear the human civilization feels towards the imperious justice system laid upon them, also justice rules over humans by the realization of authority by power.
As described by zhou, “the king of Shang, is without principle, cruel and destructive to the creatures of Heaven...”. King Shou became a corrupt ruler, forfeiting the good of his people, but more importantly, of god's people. King Shou, therefore, defied God and should lose god's mandated
There both almost identical to one another. However, some of the story was tweaked of course. Both stories share the same tempter or devil, whos only desire is to break “Gods Law” and bring the wealth of knowledge into their worlds. By breaking “Gods Law”, all the characters experience a fall from grace. They are either feeling guilty because of their subconscious or they are being punished by a being of “higher” power.
The fact that the Gods in Gilgamesh created the flood because of man’s sin (making too much noise) is childish and irresponsible of the Gods use of power. The way the God in Genesis goes about it is also irresponsible, but it seems to be more realistic because it was done in spite of the violence and wickedness of the people. The distinguishing factors between sin and wickedness is that sin is violating the word or truths set by the Gods, while Wickedness is evil or thinking that opposes God’s truth or belief. Sin is much less punishable than being wicked or evil, therefore this makes Genesis more realistic. Genesis also goes about this in a more realistic way because the people were promised it would not happen again.
Their decision to turn away from God-despite living in paradise because of him- created the first evil and gave rise to original sin, something all humans are born with (According to Catholicism.) The misuse of free will in turning away from God leads to obsession to worldly objects such as money. It is important to note that Augustine does not believe money is evil, he believes obsession with money, and any other secular object for that matter, draws away from God and leads the soul to sin. With obsession, as is human nature, comes addiction. Augustine believed that addiction was excessively evil, and as well as being a sin, conflicted with the process of free will.
After searching in Setzuan, they become awfully disappointed because the wickedness of human behaviors greatly disgusted them. The irony here is the gods appearing to earth to search for one good human being. It is even more ironic that they don’t find one for a while. Wang, the water seller expects the gods to arrive, and when they did, he tries to prevent the gods to stay at his house. It is ironic because Wang knows about the arrival of gods, but he doesn’t offer the god a place to stay, instead, he pushes the responsibility to someone else.
In society it is not accepted to participate in incest. Even though it may seem normal because it is Greek myth, Hesiod exemplifies it as a rather disgusting result. For example, When Gaea produces Uranus, and then sleeps with him, they procreate deformed children as mentioned before. (Lines 129-161.) Cyclopes having one large eye on their forehead, may be very strong and intimidating but lack of physical beauty to the gods meant one was worthless.
And still, some may also see the crime as just or unjust, and not everyone will have the same opinion about the matter (8). Socrates then restates his earlier question as to how Euthyphro can still prove that proceeding against his father could be seen as just in the eyes of all the gods (8). Because of these statements, it is much harder to tell if it would be at all possible to prove Euthyphro's side of things. Though it would seem that he is getting closer to proving his own beliefs since it is his job to prosecute the wrong-doer, Socrates still wants him to understand the morals behind his
Voltaire shows how Candide slowly realizes this logic when he encounters constant conflict and disaster after leaving the Baron’s castle and his old “perfect world”. Candide sees how almost everyone in this world acts selfishly only to reap benefits for themselves and take away from their fellow humanity. Some people probably think that Voltaire may come off as a pessimistic, but he really is just trying to show how foolish optimistic people and corrupt religion can be when you live in a world that constantly challenges you and makes you suffer so much. Essentially Voltaire is trying to tell us that the happiness of humanity is impossible, because the only “real” life is the life where you endure good things and bad things and not the life where you live in the best of all worlds and have no problems and everything is handed to
He came to the kingdom of Thebes and took control over all of the women. He put them under a curse and forced them to worship him. And because one man did not show reverence to him, he ruined his life. He acted selfishly and even cruel in a sense. These are qualities of human nature which were brought out of a god because of his want for more power.