Table of Contents 1. Introduction pg 1 2. Opening Conversation pg 4 3. About Creation pg 8 4. About Time pg 9 5. About Asking Questions and Expecting Answers pg 10 6. About Humanity pg 12 7. The Human Story: First Account Conversation #1 pg 13 8. About Ruling and Subduing pg 15 9. The Human Story: Second Account pg 17 10. Educating Adam: The Meaning of Work, Prayer and Guardianship pg 20 Conversation #2 pg 21 11. Integration, Perfection, and Names pg 25 12. The Missing Link pg 28 Conversation #3 pg 29 13. About Aloneness, Loneliness, and Kindness pg 31 14. About Choseness pg 36 15. About Being Responsible pg 38 16. About Human Equality pg 40 17. The Emergence of Eve Conversation …show more content…
Kindness between non-equals often creates a dynamic where the greater of the two, the giver, is perceived to be superior and more self-sufficient. This in turn makes the lesser of the two, the taker, feel inferior and less adequate. If the unequal relationship continues, the giver could become resentful of the taker’s dependency, while the taker becomes resentful of his reliance on the giver’s generosity. What had once been an act of kindness received with appreciation is now an exchange of antipathy and reluctance. Rather than creating an atmosphere of mutual benefits, an atmosphere of aversion prevails. When G-d separated Eve from Adam, He created two equals. As equals, Adam and Eve recognized their individual strengths and limitations. Moreover, they had to accept that their individual and mutual goals could only be accomplished if they would give to each other and take from each other. That interdependency, without which neither could be complete, is the exchange of kindnesses that should be the basis for all healthy family and social dynamics. However, G-d first created Adam singular and alone to show, by contrast, that doing kindness demands the presence of
Soledad in Spanish means more than our word "solitude," although it means that too. It suggests loneliness, the sense of being apart from others. Although ultimately each human being is alone, because there are parts of our experience we cannot share, some people are more solitary than others. The really solitary figures in this novel are those who deliberately cut themselves off from other humans. They are contrasted with characters who combat their solitude, by making strenuous efforts to reach out to others.
The purpose of Philip Slater’s book The Pursuit of Loneliness is to “reach some understanding of the forces which are unraveling our society” for his readers (xxii). It is a common conception that America is the best country, an idea which is substantiated by economic figures. However, Americans are not happy. According to Slater, “all societies frustrate certain human needs and satiate others (because) humanity and any particular society’s idea of what humanity should be is never very exact” (2). In America, the gap between reality and perception is growing farther and farther apart, at human expense. Americans work their entire lives for the future, in the pursuit of economic security, which ultimately leads to continued unhappiness in the present. American culture “struggles more and more violently to maintain itself, (but) is less and less able to hide its fundamental antipathy towards human life and human satisfaction” (122). Slater’s book teaches people about the existence of the “wide gap between the fantasies Americans live by and the realities they live in,” in the hopes that this will inspire people to react in positive ways (xxiii).
...same favors nor appreciate it. Thus, we can finally conclude that being kind and nice can in return be risky and “counter beneficial”.
Consequently, the actions of Adam and Eve have opened the doors for the two types of evil we see today, moral and natural. “Natural evil is the consequence of moral evil” (Elwell,...
The framework question, “What do we owe to each other?”, addresses complex issues of human existence. No matter the response, the answer is subjective, related to one’s own personal experiences and their understanding of morality and inequality. Yet, an individual’s answer can be further influenced by academic study and helping others in need. Philosophy, theology, and service influence the understanding of the question, “What do we owe to each other?” by allowing one to explore problems of human morality, experience human connection through theology, and feel sympathy for others.
In contrast, the Adam and Eve creation described in Chapter Two of Genesis appears quite different. Adam was created first, from the dust of the earth as well as G-d blowing into his nostrils. Furthermore, unlike Adam’s creation in Chapter One which included Man’s Purpose as active verbs, the Adam in Chapter Two’s mission in life includes only passive verbs, such as “keep, guard, protect”; these are verbs of submission. Moreover, as stated earlier, Adam was cre...
My attention was also drawn to several questions in this podcast, which made me eager to find the answers to these questions. For example, one interesting question I heard was “when you do see generosity how do you know it’s really generous” (Levy, 2010). This question stood out to me because it is one particular question I don’t think about often and made me wonder whether people help someone out because they see it as a duty. However, I believe the best answer to this question is the portrayal of the concept of norm of reciprocity, which indicates “the expectation that helping others will increase the likelihood that they will help us in the future” (Akert, Aronson, & Wilson, 2013, p.303). This is true because “generosity” happens when both persons are nice to each other and if an individual helps another person then it’s easy to assume that the person who was
Kvam, Kristen E., Linda S. Schearing, and Valarie H. Ziegler. Eve and Adam: Jewish, Christian,
Then, God realized Adam was needing a partner to help accomplish the tasks he had assigned him; thus, God created Eve from one of the ribs of Adam. In the perfect setting of the Garden of Eden, there was a partnership between man and woman in which they worked side by side, but once sin entered the world, the partnership has been distorted. Part of the punishment for Eve after the fall was that women’s “desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you” (Genesis 3:16) meaning that there will now be struggles within the partnership of man and woman, and the man will rule over the woman. Yet, there are still key characteristics that prevail in the way humans are to interact with each other. In a biblical worldview, marriage should be held between one man and one woman as seen in Genesis 3:24 when it states “That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they’ve become one
In the garden, a seemingly perfect being, Adam, is aligned within the sphere of God, joined by their dualistic and shared image. Yet as Frye Northrop points out, “In the soul of man, as God originally created there is a hierarchy…the reason… the will, and the appetite” (Northrop, 458). It is with little surprise that such a perfect body does not remain whole, as Adam takes not...
The fall of mankind with Adam and Eve caused an imbalance in the relations between God and mankind. To achieve salvation, this inequity had ...
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...od created Eve as a mate for Adam so that he would not have to be alone. Rappaccini feels he has given Beatrice and Giovanni a marvelous gift. He is proud of the fact that he has given Beatrice and Giovanni the power to keep the outside world away (Kloeckner 335). Similarly, God gave Adam and Eve the wonderful gift of everlasting
...esult, the more directly one sees their personal efforts impact someone else, the more happiness one can gain from the experience of giving. Sometimes generosity requires pushing past a feeling of reluctance because people all instinctively want to keep good things for themselves, but once one is over this feeling, they will feel satisfaction in knowing that they have made a difference in someone else’s life. However, if one lives without generosity but is not selfish, they can still have pleasure from other virtues.
Through the characters of Adam and Eve, Milton has illustrated what a perfect relationship is supposed to be like. From the beginning, the couple is represented as very happy, as they were, “so hand in hand they passed, the loveliest pair/ That ever since in love’s embraces met…(4.321-322). Reader’s come to the conclusion that Adam and Eve represent the perfect idyllic relationship. As the epic poem continues, Adam and Eve’s relationship begins to change as a result of the two’s questionable behavior along with the appearance of Satan in Paradise. Eve is created for Adam, "The likeness, thy fit help, thy other self, / Thy wish exactly to thy heart 's desire" (8.450-451). A Milton purpose chooses specific words such as likeness and fit to show that a hierarchy exists between Adam and Eve. The hierarchical system puts a strain on their relationship as Eve wishes to be just as equal as Adam. Her desire to be see as the same rank as Adam, leads to her temptation ultimately causing the