Beyond Good and Evil

It was obvious to Job’s friends to conclude that Job must have earned his punishment by committing at least one evil sin. “God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evildoers.” (Job 8:20) Basically, his friends were explaining that good people are rewarded, while evil people are punished on the other side of the spectrum. These men were assuming that life is fair in dispensing discipline to Homo sapiens. Therefore, they impeached Job during his misery. Perhaps these men…

act on, that’s who we really are.” Our ability to critically think about our behavior and make choices is what makes us human and sets us apart from our hominid ancestors. In fact, as far as other species are concerned, there is no concept of “good” and “evil”; there is predator and prey, threatening and safe, dominant and submissive. Morality is not a factor at play in the animal kingdom. All that matters is having access to the resources that make survival possible. But humans have the…

God’s existence are believed to have not been established beyond suspicion. However, faithful believers suggest that truths observed in our environment can help to better explain that a God must exist. These claims that a God must exist are based on empirical truths that rely on observable information…

in a good way is that pain and destruction are God’s way of calling us to repent. These events were not cause directly by God but were not stopped neither to have society as a whole think about life and how we ought to live our lives. I think C.S. Lewis explains it the best is that God allows these occurrences to happen because he desires for us to come back to him and that natural disasters humble us before the cross and cause us to seek what is truly wonderful. In…

In his essays Beyond Good and Evil and On the Genealogy of Morality he discusses the shift in thinking in terms of “good and bad” to “good and evil.” Nietzsche goes on to discuss his idea of master-slave morality, which at its core is exactly what it appears to be. Initially, this formulation of morality was practiced by ancient aristocratic societies and followed the value equation of good = noble = powerful = beautiful = happy = beloved by God (Nietzsche…

be, perfect. It is unrealistic to expect a person to be composed and act ideally one hundred percent of the time- people will inevitably make mistakes. However, making mistakes does not make a person bad, or evil, or beyond redemption. What really determines if a person is fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, is how they respond, what effect these mistakes have on them, and how they proceed. Shakespeare’s Macbeth follows the horrific sin committed by the Macbeths, and the chaos that ensues.…

story that kept the reader engaged. There were themes in the play that keeps the reader thinking all throughout the story. I personally feel like this story was a head of its time because there are movies today with a similar storylines and ideas. Good vs Evil played a big part of this story. A man gets bored with his life and knowledge. He urges for more knowledge. He shows signs of obsession throughout the play of gaining knowledge. The greed is really what hurt him that leads him to concoct a…

the two sets of people in the book, the “good guys” who choose the right path of moral ethics and selflessness and the “bad guys” who choose the wrong path that leads to destruction and chaos. So the theme of good versus evil is very evident in this book. It highlights the worst things that we are capable of doing when we realize…

Most people would agree that the good or what is morally right is always more ideal than the bad or evil approach, however, in some cases, the bad approach can be more likeable than the good. In Italo Calvino’s The Cloven Viscount, the idea of “do you prefer the good or bad side” becomes a significant part of the novel as it is constantly portrayed through the protagonist, Viscount Medardo of Terralba. The story begins with Medardo splitting into two half by cannonball; the bad half luckily…

snakes are viewed as a great and good power such as a Rainbow and Rain God, the inventor of creation, and a protector from storms. “Man-made laws and social customs do not form the basis of Buddhist ethics” (Buddhists Ethics). This means they do not base their ethics based on what man thinks is right and wrong, but they based it on the “unchanging laws of nature” (Buddhists Ethics). They value happiness above all. In Buddhism and snakes “…symbolize both good and evil, hopes and fears”…