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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Friedrich Nietzsche Group 14-3

What would a world without God be like? Some in my group agreed that a world without God would be down right tragic. There would be more evil than good in the world.

Our ideas of right and wrong and good and evil make sense in a world where there is a God. Where in a godless world it wouldn't make sense. But how would we actually know that a world without God would be like? In my opinion we wouldn't know. It could be a better world than we are living in today or it could be worse.

Nietzsche also touched base on how emotions and irrational forces play their part in shaping human values. Things happen by fate and life is worth living even with its ups and downs.
We also talked about the difference between a life-affirmer and a life-negator. Dr. Phil gave a good example. Let's say the Devil whispered something in your ear and told you to do a task. A life-affirmer would agree to that task because they live life as it comes whether it was good or bad. Where as a life-negator would disagree because for negation it is in our judgement of sense and not it sense itself. So doing a task the Devil tells you to do would be bad. Therefore you would do it.
What type of person are you? A life-affirmer or a life-negator?

5 comments:

  1. In addition, Nietzsche think the death of God opened up new possibilities for humanity. These possibilities were both terrifying and exhilarating. the downside was that there was no safety net, no rules about how people had to live or be. This relates with what my group was talking about in class. If there was no God, people would not care about sin or doing bad thinks to one anther. Nietzsche also pointed out that if someone once accept there is no God, that person cannot just cling to a Christian view of right and wrong. I agree with Nietzsche because without God there is no Christianity.
    Q: So would the absence of God make everything possible and remove all limits or would it make everything impossible?

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  2. Would it be possible for a person to be life-affirmer all the time? what about when he/she encounters a task in life and made good judgment (unintentionally), at that point that judgement matches the one for a life-negator person in the same type of situation.
    I think I can say I'm life-negator for the most parts and life-affirmer sometimes, no one does good all the time and never listen to some Devil whispering. I live life not as it comes but as God make it (good or bad).

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  3. I agree with muna that most of the time I am a. Life negator and only some of the time a life affirmer. I just go by day to day doing what I think must be right and following as God tells me. I also do believe that the absence of God would make the world become limitless. If there's no God to tell you the path to go and try right from wrong, how would you ever know what right really is? In that case people would become very destructive.

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  4. I agree with Celecita and Muna. I think most of us are both and it would be hard for me atleast to commit to one way or the other.

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  5. Anonymous3:51 PM CDT

    Who abides by rules in a godless amerika, what rules do we abide by? only those passed down by authority, what if the entire police fore was crooked cops,what if they worked with the miliatry they could overthrow government creating a dictatorship. I think America would be a land of comminuist beliefs if the was no god. Have god teaches the principles of morality without these if would reveal the animal within humans. God is all that is good my logic is thing s would be all bad without him. there would be more theievs more murders more intelligent peoplewould learn an aleternative to doing what is right and would develop intelligent ways to beat the system

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