Human Nature and Ultimate Good
There is the question on what is the ultimate good. The ultimate good is basically the core of human nature. The discovery of the ultimate good is not a process of defining what is good but rather rediscovering what is our original disposition¡Xto do which is right. There is an emerging perspective in which judgment of what is good is submerged in the culture and historicity of the person. However there is a need to consider that the pursuit of good is universal. Regardless of culture, humans know that to kill is not good and to steal property is not good. The main point is that the pursuit of ultimate good is human¡¦s natural predisposition. It is innate in humans to be good. Unconsciously, we perform actions, which are in pursuit of this ultimate good because it in our nature.
However, historicity and our submersion into cultures create some barriers in our discovery of this ultimate good. There are lots of environmental influences and......
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