(Meditation XVII)
2007-10-04 11:06:36 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Yes, but some are incontinent.
2007-10-04 11:49:47 · answer #1 · answered by Dear Carlos 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Ok, english isn't my mother tongue but I thought I could understand all the questions clearly. There is always a first time :-). I apologize if I am way off in my answer. Happiness is feeling with changing definitions as life goes and I am not sure of supreme happiness. Good usually works its way by making you think and be confident that you are gaining that supreme happiness, IMO. We are part of the string of life, because we choose to be and we aren't islands of our own, because we choose to live with others. I don't think I can buy holiness. And 77.8 years in my opinion is a long time for one person, even if it is nothing in the cosmic world. Just like a person i loved a lot meant a lot to me even though she is almost nothing when she was just one of six billion people in this planet.
2016-05-21 01:09:34 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Man is a social creature. We form groups as a survival tactic, and sexual pairs as a reproductive necessity.
So while a man CAN choose to be an island, it's more or less the equivalent of genetic suicide.
One could more accurately say "Not many men are Islands" but that just sucks out all the poetry.
2007-10-04 11:29:10 · answer #3 · answered by Phoenix Quill 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There's nothing you can do that only affects yourself. Whether you're part of a family or not you're still part of this world and you exert an influence. Even if you live in a cave, the choices you make will invariably affect someone or something.
So in short, yes I agree, "No man/woman is an island."
2007-10-04 22:41:15 · answer #4 · answered by R2007 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Old John was known to drink whiskey, which might mean he'd had a few belts before making that observation. Even so, I'd say he was right on point saying that. People, events, random happenings prevent a man from being alone even when he may wish to be. That's one of the high prices we pay for being human.
2007-10-04 11:25:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No man is an island in terms of his being and growth. We develop as part of a whole.
We are all islands in our fate. When one experiences pain or pleasure, it is not shared with anyone. It is yours exclusively.
Man is both and island and a part of a whole. Like a drop in a river. It flows as part of a larger whole and it is still a drop onto itself.
2007-10-04 13:36:17 · answer #6 · answered by whuz007 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I really don't think so... look at Thoreau, even he had to borrow things from his neighbors sometimes. Even if someone is separated by thousands of miles from another person, their thoughts and knowledge are still formed largely around the idea of other people. I really don't believe there is a single person on earth who acts totally alone.
2007-10-04 11:17:19 · answer #7 · answered by susanbamboozlin 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Philosophers aren't very good at Geography. Man is an island.
2007-10-04 11:11:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
NO
You can be an "island" if you really want to be. You can isolate yourself...
I do think "we" are pack "animals" happier living with others, interacting... mingling, with a pecking order... routines, boundary's etc. BUT if you wanted to be an island and have an isolated life, you could.
2007-10-04 22:37:02 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No man is an island
No man stands alone
Each man's joy is joy to me
Each man's grief is my own
We need one another
So I will defend
Each man as my brother
Each man as my friend.
Is that how it goes?
2007-10-04 11:18:58 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Definitely without a doubt.
2007-10-04 12:25:18 · answer #11 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋