Frankl, Heschel, and Hick all have very similar ideas on human purpose. Frankl and Hick talk about destiny and specific goals to plan out and reaching those goals. “What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person’s life at a given moment.” Frankl focuses specific tasks that only the certain individual can do. Each person at multiple times in their life must have some sort of purpose, some sort of goal to obtain. Hick states that a person can’t choose their “origin, but rather [can choose] one’s destiny.” He is meaning that where everywhere are born, and whatever we are born into, there is some sort of purpose that we are supposed to fulfill. A destiny that is unique to the individual.
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Hick and Heschel both notice this transcendence that happens beyond the human experience. That there is something beyond us that there are no words for. Hick describes this "person making world", where people are made imperfect in order to reach perfection and the divine. “But it is very evident that this person-making process, leading eventually to perfect human community, is not completed on this earth.” Hick describes that there is something beyond our human experience, that there is something more to be learned. Human purpose continues “in another sphere of existence after bodily death.” Heschel would agree with this, he says that “certain things are not available to us, are not at our disposal.” That there are still things that are beyond our comprehension but this is okay. It is okay to not know everything. “Transcendence can never be an object of possession or of comprehension. Yet man can relate himself and engage to it.” People can still relate to this experience. They might not be able to grasp the sublime but they need not understand it but to know that it exists and to be able to engage with it. There is an importance to not being able to …show more content…
People are first made imperfect in order to reach perfection, in order to find the truth for themselves. But with this imperfectness in humans, there is also a free will to make our own choices; to sin or not. Thus some people are going to sin, there will be hatred and bile against other people. There will be suffering in the world whether by human touch or by natural disasters. But Hick explains that if there were no evil in this world then there would be no person-making environment. There would be nothing to help us move forward. He states “But in removing all occasions of pain and suffering and hence all challenge and all need for mutual care, we should have converted the world from a person-making into a static environment, which could not elicit moral growth.” Even if, somehow, the worst tragedy would be gone from existence, then something else would take its place as the worst. Hick explains how this suffering is actually needed in order to grow as people. For Heschel, suffering is inevitable, it is apart of the human journey. “Animal life is a straight path; the inner life is a maze, and no one can find his way through or about without guidance. Such is the condition from which there is no escape.” To be human is to go through such sufferings, such twisting and confusing routes of good and evil. There are always moral choices to make about these situations, which brings us to Frankl. Human suffering is
Hick and Heschel both notice this transcendence that happens beyond the human experience. That there is something beyond us that there are no words for. Hick describes this "person making world", where people are made imperfect in order to reach perfection and the divine. “But it is very evident that this person-making process, leading eventually to perfect human community, is not completed on this earth.” Hick describes that there is something beyond our human experience, that there is something more to be learned. Human purpose continues “in another sphere of existence after bodily death.” Heschel would agree with this, he says that “certain things are not available to us, are not at our disposal.” That there are still things that are beyond our comprehension but this is okay. It is okay to not know everything. “Transcendence can never be an object of possession or of comprehension. Yet man can relate himself and engage to it.” People can still relate to this experience. They might not be able to grasp the sublime but they need not understand it but to know that it exists and to be able to engage with it. There is an importance to not being able to …show more content…
People are first made imperfect in order to reach perfection, in order to find the truth for themselves. But with this imperfectness in humans, there is also a free will to make our own choices; to sin or not. Thus some people are going to sin, there will be hatred and bile against other people. There will be suffering in the world whether by human touch or by natural disasters. But Hick explains that if there were no evil in this world then there would be no person-making environment. There would be nothing to help us move forward. He states “But in removing all occasions of pain and suffering and hence all challenge and all need for mutual care, we should have converted the world from a person-making into a static environment, which could not elicit moral growth.” Even if, somehow, the worst tragedy would be gone from existence, then something else would take its place as the worst. Hick explains how this suffering is actually needed in order to grow as people. For Heschel, suffering is inevitable, it is apart of the human journey. “Animal life is a straight path; the inner life is a maze, and no one can find his way through or about without guidance. Such is the condition from which there is no escape.” To be human is to go through such sufferings, such twisting and confusing routes of good and evil. There are always moral choices to make about these situations, which brings us to Frankl. Human suffering is