Can we truly live in a utopian world where everyone does get along and eveyone is happy and crime and pain does not exist? Or do we need evil in the world to help us grow as people so we know what good truly is? Or is heaven the utopian world and right now we are living in hell to help us to understand what heaven really is about?
2007-02-15 01:08:18 · 14 answers · asked by Duece 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
By the nature of our language,and the logic that had been set a thousand years ago, every word,which means a representation of a thought or an idea by a sound or a a written sign, has its opposite,otherwise,the words would fail to represent more accurately the purpose for which they were made.
Good and evil co exist,you can t seperate one from the other,and the dream of a calm and troubless world is a fantasy.Why? because we choose to name happiness and sadness,good and bad,dark and light,we choose our paradoxes,we gave them life by naming them and giving them the right to exist.What if we just chose to just ''be'',not happy,not sad,just be,then everyone will be satisfied.I wont say happy,because if i give the word''happy'' an existence,then witout thought somewhere there will be misery.Happiness is about the ego,while bwing is about connecting with all human beings and be the ideal.
2007-02-15 01:31:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that the answer is in nature: nature is not good or evil by itself, nature just is (you can also say that it is not beautiful nor ugly, etc.). So, what then determines good and evil? Surely, only humans. Also, if we can not say nature is in any ethical category, then what is? Again, only humans.
So, we determine good and evil, and both originate from us. That's what we can say with certainty - we can never prove or even think some ultimate, abstract good and evil. Now we have stated that both good and evil can only exist while the human beings exist.
What would then be the nature of good and evil? If we try to look at those terms totally objective, we will see that they can be stretched and compressed according to the given situation. This means that they have no constant nature and further more, proves that they originate from the human nature. And, if we state that the human nature can not be divided, we must conclude that, while the human race exists, both good and evil will co-exist with it!
2007-02-15 02:38:41 · answer #2 · answered by Uros I 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My feeling is ," we are living in a sandwich world" we learn from good what is evil and from evil what is good. To make the choices are totally up to you.
Heaven is a utopia for most of people that have something comforting to look forward to after a life of heck. And for some not. My vote is heaven.
2007-02-15 01:25:24 · answer #3 · answered by billes_2006 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would have to say that the two are not so connected that they are forced to rely on each other for their own existence. I understand how it seems right (yin and yang) for them to only exist with each other, but I would argue that they are not essential to each other. I think that if we were in a perfect world we would be able to recognize good without the presence of evil. There are some strong correlations between the two, but no causation.
2007-02-15 01:56:36 · answer #4 · answered by timmeresque 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
as long as humans have to make choices based upon their highest value. There will be right and wrong. Good and evil only exist in the supernatural world. Thus are imaginary tactics to control out of control human beings, that are confused about what they value.
2007-02-15 03:49:55 · answer #5 · answered by Real Friend 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are absolutely correct. We need evil in the world in order to know what good is. It is not possible to know that something is "good" unless there is something that is "bad" to compare it to.
If you believe that life in heaven (or hell for that matter) is eternal, we will surely forget, sooner or later, our life on earth, and will begin to make distinctions between things in heaven and hell. Some things in heaven will be good and some things in heaven will be amazingly wonderful. Some things in hell will be bad and other things in hell will be amazingly intolerable.
Before you know it, the existence in heaven or hell is all we know, and what was once merely "good" in heaven is now "bad" and what was once "bad" in hell is now "good."
2007-02-15 01:30:49 · answer #6 · answered by hello 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes after 1000 years when God has cast judgement on this wicked system of things and Satan and his organisation of those on the earth and those in spirit have been destroyed.
The earth will be restored to paradise conditions which God had originally intended and the works of evil will be undone and destroyed. The meek will inherit the earth. Humans will function not with fleshly governments of men but heavenly government of God.
2007-02-15 01:12:03 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately good and evil both have to be in existance in order to a society to function. I say unfortunately because I would prefer a society where there was only evil but...we can't have everyhting....
2007-02-15 01:12:39 · answer #8 · answered by kveldulf_gondlir 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If there is no evil, there will be no good. Even in Heaven there is bound to be evil people, but that they are better than those in Hell.Maybe there are no such things as Hell.Maybe. no one is sure.
2007-02-15 01:19:42 · answer #9 · answered by AKL 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is no good or evil, things just are, but our ignorance keeps us from seeing the unity. heaven is the ability to merge into the language and soul of the univerese and just be. then there is no pain or pleasure, but becoming beyond both.
2007-02-15 01:28:56 · answer #10 · answered by Zack 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋