Friday, December 12, 2014
Absolute Being vs. Humaneness
I think it would be interesting to talk about Absolute Being in City of God, and the Humaneness in The Analects, because I see some similarities between the two. Both seem to be unobtainable in a way…but the same not really. It is implied that Absolute Being is a sort of enhanced view of the universe that can only be obtained in the after life only by those who have followed Jesus during their lives on Earth. I say "enhanced" because to saying that they are all-knowing would imply that they have the same knowledge as God, which is impossible. We have also pretty concretely defined Humaneness as a virtue of the gentleman, but at the same time, a person that is humane is always striving to be more humane through continual self-examination. The criteria for having reached Humaneness and Absolute being are both very obscure. What is the purpose of this?
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