How do you birthduring your life even after you are brought into this world? The human condition, defined as the the characteristics which compose the essentials of the human existence. All humans experience (birth, growth, emotionality, aspiration, conflict, mortality) characteristics that people in this world feel that you need to be a moral human being. Most people aren’t aware that they’re living the human condition, but that doesn’t mean that they won’t use these characteristics during their lifetime. Throughout various texts aspiration, conflict and birth seem to be the popular characteristics used in their pieces. Aspiration, seen as a hope or desire of achieving something. The definition of conflict: prolonged struggle and birth, seen
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In the text “A Case for a Tragic Optimism” Viktor Frankl talks in the whole piece about Tragic Optimism which is a concept that a person is genuinely optimistic even in the face of an extremely negative circumstances, which is a really good trait to have. We can connect aspiration and tragic optimism as having the same meaning, because they both are looking towards something specific. In the text Frankl says “For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.” he is saying that if we use our “aspirations” or tragic optimism together we can work through all the bad to get to a better world to live in. Frankl uses the survivors of the holocaust as an example. Frankl writes “in the first, as i was told by American soldiers, a behavior pattern crystallized to which they referred to as “give-up-itis.” In the concentration camps, this behavior was paralleled by those who one morning, at five, refused to get up and go to work and instead stayed in the hut, on the straw wet with urine and faeces. Nothing-- neither warnings nor threats-- could induce them to change their minds.” We think about concentration camps and how those should have had no hope, but they found a way to look at the light at the end of the tunnel with their aspiration to get …show more content…
In fact, no one goes through a single day without any conflict. Conflict can come in many different ways, such as emotionally and physically. In the text “The Examined Life” by Cornel West the writer talks about having internal conflict to be able to find your true meaning in life. You cannot go through life without facing a conflict and most of the time you have to fail first to finally succeed. Cornel writes “it takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul, than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield”. Comparing this to going to war means that this is a pretty big conflict to have. Also in Cornels piece he talks about how in life you cannot rebirth in life without death in life. Death referring to a failure or a conflict in your life that you have to go through because you start a new part of your life. Another way that conflicts are apart of our everyday
In the text “A Case for a Tragic Optimism” Viktor Frankl talks in the whole piece about Tragic Optimism which is a concept that a person is genuinely optimistic even in the face of an extremely negative circumstances, which is a really good trait to have. We can connect aspiration and tragic optimism as having the same meaning, because they both are looking towards something specific. In the text Frankl says “For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.” he is saying that if we use our “aspirations” or tragic optimism together we can work through all the bad to get to a better world to live in. Frankl uses the survivors of the holocaust as an example. Frankl writes “in the first, as i was told by American soldiers, a behavior pattern crystallized to which they referred to as “give-up-itis.” In the concentration camps, this behavior was paralleled by those who one morning, at five, refused to get up and go to work and instead stayed in the hut, on the straw wet with urine and faeces. Nothing-- neither warnings nor threats-- could induce them to change their minds.” We think about concentration camps and how those should have had no hope, but they found a way to look at the light at the end of the tunnel with their aspiration to get …show more content…
In fact, no one goes through a single day without any conflict. Conflict can come in many different ways, such as emotionally and physically. In the text “The Examined Life” by Cornel West the writer talks about having internal conflict to be able to find your true meaning in life. You cannot go through life without facing a conflict and most of the time you have to fail first to finally succeed. Cornel writes “it takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul, than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield”. Comparing this to going to war means that this is a pretty big conflict to have. Also in Cornels piece he talks about how in life you cannot rebirth in life without death in life. Death referring to a failure or a conflict in your life that you have to go through because you start a new part of your life. Another way that conflicts are apart of our everyday