I do believe rationality, and that it does work in most scenarios. I had to look the word rationality up and the dictionary says “the quality or state of being agreeable to reason”. To me, I do believe that people will find their own truth, no matter what it may be. When talking about the perfectibility, I don’t believe that people are born to sin. I think that we all are born with no intention of sin and that sin is formed throughout life experience. I think out of all the premises mutability seems to be my favorite and one that I do believe in fully. The premise says that the environment they are surrounded with controls human behavior. I do believe that you can really figure someone out based off how they were raised, and what they have been faced with in life. For example people that come from an abusive family tend to be violent themselves.
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Rationality, Perfectibility, and Mutability Premises
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Like you I have a problem believing that we are all born with sin. This premise seems to be the weakest of all shared beliefs amongst the blogs I have read through, and it may be due to the large diversity of religions and sub-cultures in our area. I do however, believe that we can “improve” ourselves. And that this at times requires effort and to some extent, constraint. By improvement I mean becoming a better person or as the author of our book puts it “achieving goodness”. It does seem to me that the level of effort to “achieve goodness” is not the same for all people. I believe the amount of effort required is highly based on the environment of the individual and how that environment defines goodness.
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