DEVRY ETHC 445 Week 2 DQ 2 The Struggle of Good vs Evil

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DEVRY ETHC 445 Week 2 DQ 2 The Struggle of Good
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• ETHC 445 Week 2 DQ 2 The Struggle of Good vs Evil
• Personal struggles with one's own tendencies,
  desires, lusts, and self-interest have placed
  people in conflict with other people and their
  own communities farther back than any of us can
  read.  We read about the struggles of others in
  history -- what about ourselves?  Yes, us!  What
  about our experiences of being ourselves?

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• When we look back in history, we find people who
  are not so different from us -- struggling with
  their human nature -- and trying to live ethical
  lives in whatever way they can do so.  They
  aspire to live ethical lifes and find themselves
  failing again and again.
• St. Augustine  in the 5th Century held that
  although we feel free to make choices in life,
  our true nature as human beings includes a
  persistent disregard for what is good. On this
  view, we are sinners whose only hope for
  redemption lies in the gracious love of a
  merciful deity. Whatever I do on my own,
  Augustine would argue, is bound to be wrong
  whatever I do right, must be performed by God
  through me.
• St. Thomas Aquinas in the 13th Century brought
  Aristotles theories back into vogue, soon
  after St. Augustines death (if 800 years is
  soon, that is.)  He allowed humanity to have a
  bit of secularity along with faith, and his
  ethics allows for a Natural Law which can be
  found in the heart of man.  Please be sure to
  listen to our Saints' Debate on the lecture tab
  before working in this thread.
• So, here we are in the 21st Century with all the
  sophistication and technology of the age.  Does
  this account of human nature fit well with your
  own experience of human action? That is, do you
  observe (in yourself and others) an inclination
  toward evil instead of toward good?  Bring in
  examples of scenarios which bolster your view, or
  which tend to bring your view (or others) into
  question.