Big Question: Are Humans Inherently Good or Evil?
Quote from the Bible:
“So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them...¨ and, ¨God saw everything that he had made, and indeed it was very good.”
-Genesis 1:27 and 1:31
Analysis:
What this is trying to say is that God created everyone under him. If something is built under him, it will flourish and be very good. So, God is saying everyone under him is inherently good, not evil.
Agree/Disagree:
Quote from The Ancient Greek times:
¨Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.”
-Aristotle
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This could be good or bad. In other words, it’s balancing out society as we know it today. So, the quote above says humans are inherently good and evil.
Agree/Disagree:
I agree with the fact that Shakespeare says that humans all have their own qualities and are on the earth for a reason. It’s just a bummer that some people have their quality of being evil in this world.
Quote by a Post Renaissance Thinker:
“All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.”
-Robert Louis Stevenson
Analysis:
Robert Louis Stevenson here is saying that humans are good and evil. To explain commingled means to be mixed in and out. It’s saying here that humans are mixed in and out of good and evil depending on the circumstance. One day someone is really nice, and then really mean the next.
Agree/Disagree:
Quote from Popular Culture:
“Terrorism is the preferred weapon of weak and evil men.”
-Ronald Regan
Analysis:
Regan is saying that only weak mean are evil. Not weak as in feeble and small, but weak as in the mindset. If you’re scared you tend to do a dumb thing, which in this case is terrorism in the quote. So, if you have a strong, positive attitude, you aren’t evil, saying that humans aren’t inherently