Augustine,Descrates,Nietzsche,Aquines
Descartes and Nietzsche both state with the individual, but in different ways and senses. Descartes starts his investigation of what can be known with certainty with the thought experiments of the individual, namely, the individual perceiver and thinker, namely, himself. Nietzsche, is concerned with himself as an author, he wrote his own autobiography and titled it Ecce Homo, meaning "behold, the Man" using a title sometimes used in biographies of Jesus, and also considers his Overman as an individual and not as being a group or class. Descartes has other things in mind and considers the human being in quite different terms. To Descartes the human individual is one with a body that has extension in space as its basic material property, but, more importantly. As a mind, in the sense of being one who thinks and doubts. This is something that one cannot consistently doubt, in contrast to what one senses or observes, and so the thinking self becomes the basic knowing entity, the basis of certainty in his knowledge. What is presented as clearly and distinctly to the self as its own existence is accepted as true. Yet the human self is finite in intellect though the will is not limited, or as limited, and Descartes takes this as
Nietzsche sees human beings as of two types, the lesser, uncreative ones and the superior individuals who are creative and use the resources they, as individuals, can exploit, including lesser folk, to express what they will to create. As such, men develop as individuals, but as individuals who are members of a society. In doing so, they learn, grow, and mature in so far as they act rationally and responsibly. Yet in addition to this ability to make rational choices for oneself, man also acts within a community, participating in its decisions and political processes. That is to say, in the primal state, in the Garden of Eden, god gave Adam and Eve the ability to make choices that could conceivably be choices that would go against the will of God Himself. Also god provides the goals that men who choose to be good can contemplate and put into action by pursuing the course of a life in conformity with reason as well as faith. Otherwise, God's will predestines man to be either saved or damned, since once man has sinned and disobeyed God it is only god's intervention, though the intercession of his Son, Jesus, that some humans are to be saved and others damned, rather than God damning the whole lot of them. In such cases, the society and state that they are in forms the stage where their ethical growth and maturity develop. Extra creditQuestion D To Augustine, man since the fall is a wash in Original Sin. Augustine, in contrast, is concerned with the individual and his relation to God, and the individual as becoming a member of God's Holy City as more important than fulfilling man's civic responsibilities on earth. This involves contemplation of god as unmoved mover, but also includes good food, wine, friends, etc. Question C. Descartes sees the individual human will as what is a problem for him in that it is the unlimited will that is the source of error.
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