SURVIVE: The determinism in Man (chapter one)

Chapter one

What determines a man?

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 Successful man is not determined by his wealth of money but by his wealth of wisdom. Who we are and the best we can be is in different perspective what ensure our success and what we can give back to the society that makes us further plunge us into a situation we regarded as circumstances beyond our control; because sometime the environment we find ourselves determine who we are and what we are, for instance a young bright teenager born and bread in the suburb of a third world country from the realist angle the probability of that teenage girl to succeed is one per cent compare to her peer group in a more conducive environment. But with good faith and perseverance there natural nature will expose itself whether negatively or positively the fact still remain there nature will reveal itself. Nature is something we can not hide no matter how we try to avoid it, like the popular saying goes you can take the man out of the ghetto but you can not take the ghetto out of the man. We all must realize this fact, the same god that took time to create someone who is a pauper in a less attractive area is the same omniscient god that create those millionaire in high brow area, however the deterministic feature that present itself to us is obviously incompatible which makes one to wonder why such inequality of life, for the Marxism this is expected in every aspect of life. It is very evident that in the modern capitalism there exists tremendous antagonism between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat because of there different in class of societies where the bourgeoisie control virtually all means of production, for the proletariat they are left at the mercy of the bourgeoisie, as time went by the bourgeoisie and the working class challenge themselves like a guerrilla warfare, where the insurgent attack when they have the advantage. Nevertheless the proletariat like Lenin makes us to realize that the overthrow of the bourgeoisie by the dictatorship of the proletariat is not the end of the class struggle but is continuation in new form¹. This statement by Lenin reminds one of the logical processes of thesis and antitheses which are unified in the synthesis that in turn take new forms of processes. In other words the effort of the proletariat to enthrone a classless society is impracticable not because is not possible but for the fact that the bourgeoisie will not sit back and allow the working class to continue to control the economy. Just as is impossible to introduce classless society is also impracticable to expect all man to think reasonably or rationally. Though Aristotle says man is a rational animal² but not all man with the prevalent level of intelligential amongst men one can not but doubt human faculty of reasoning this is not to doubt scholar that agree that man is indeed the most intelligent creature in the cosmic environment but to prove that there are certain unforeseen circumstances that affect our reasoning may be due to brain damage from birth or there are some disturbing infection in our deterministic potential that make one man to think reasonably and other unreasonably. But if indeed there some hidden circumstances that caused us (man) to think unreasonably then there is a metaphysical explanation to that view which will be discuss extensively in chapter two of this book but before that we should ask ourselves these question, is it our lack of metaphysic that makes us to think irrationally? Or are we born by nature perhaps to be daft or retarded? Definitely it has to be one of these two, by nature yes some are born blind, deaf, cripple and what have you. So is also possible that some are born to be absolutely irrational not by there own doing of course but beyond there own status that somehow makes such men not to notice that they are actually different from their fellow human being.

                    In the past it was reported that the German pope, pope Benedict the xvi claim that scientist cannot explain the world without God, if many agree with this statement and there is no attempt to refute it then the pope we can construe is right not on the bases of this universal statement but because scientist themselves are human being whose opinion and ideas and fact also differs. for instance some scientist erroneously believe that black people don’t have there own history some even went further to claim that black emanate from  gorilla and monkeys, other also wonder why is it only majority of blacks athlete win  long distance races some of the scientist attribute this to genes that is only found in black peoples blood, we all must agree that this is false believe on the part of the scientist, the African black athletes that win long distance races did so because of practice and long distance walk they are use to doing in there child days. So going by the words of the pope scientist indeed needs the help of religious people to explain the universe. We can then deduce that God undeniably is one of the numerous deterministic trend in man, since god create man he has the control over man and his environment, and how did God carry out this control, through religion, Karl Marx figuratively describe religion as the opium of the people, his absolutely right, metaphorically of course, human being now found hope in there various religion because that seem to bring them closer to God. How ever viewing it from another angle we can not wait until thy kingdom come for god to explain what transpire between him and the universe, what we can best do is to gather ourselves, the philosophers, scientist, archeologist, historians, black and white to form a team and unravel this mystery question, what determines a man?

References

1.   F.N. Ndubuisi, Man and State, Lagos, Foresight press, 2008. p,83

2.   J.I. Omoregbe, Ethics: a systematic and historical study, third edition    ikeja, joja press Ltd, 1993. P, 124.

Survive The Determinism in Man (Introduction)

SURVIVE

The Determinism in man

Foreword

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his book attempt to unravel what really makes a man also looks into what or who really determines a man. After many years of existence human being is still regarded to be the most perfect creation on earth though not entirely in perfection but more reasonable and accommodating than any other creature, however it is this perfection of human being that thrown us into doubt whether man in his own right determine what and what not to do at a particular point in time. Man in his empirical nature sometimes are incline to be spiritual in there doing it is for this reason that some are of the opinion that man differs from man if this assumption is true then what makes a man or determines what a man do also differs. For instance the idealist philosophers believe that there is some sort of intrinsic nature in man that is superior to their circumstance, and that is what idealist philosophers call the spiritual values or experience, not just experience but Absolute experience. This absolute experience for them is the material of our existence.

 

Introduction

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any notable scholars have described man as the most intelligent creature created by God. The acceptance of this claim is by no means under any threat of doubt. Man in his intelligent nature was able to make himself relevant in midst of unattainable object, resulting into making an alternative way of surviving. The entrusting attitude of man to any object also shows that indeed we can survive basically on anything not necessary harmful but productive object. Gone are the days when homosapiens lives like the anthropoids ape from the evolutionary theory man develop and equip himself with relevant things of life, even among the religious circle to be specific Christianity have it in there theory that God first created Adam and Eve both were naked, but as times goes on they found shelter somehow and survive, the intelligent nature in them gives them the utmost sensibility of survival, perhaps Charles Darwin most have realize this in his theory of natural selection as one thing replace another, even the Big Bang theory is close to this with the explosion of some organism millions of years ago that in turn create another species which is responsible for the survival of plant, animal, man etc.

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fade already sat down on her chair all alone but she must be an intense reader admit one of her admirer his the one fade always like quietly but keep her thought to her self, he sought after what she’s reading but already saw a image clad in pure white gown from the face with a hat holding a huge stick more like a staff swigging it from left to right, yes that’s the Eyo masquerade, possibly she is the type that study image very well, her dress slip from the shoulder reveals her upper chest a little he held her by the shoulder pull the dress back up fade must have felt something, the succulent hand that touch her, remarkably she did not say anything, only a smile come out from that face, still focus on the grey picture of the Adamo Orisha. So she like the Eyo masquerade very well he assume, he must have see the veil picture he have absolutely no idea what the veil picture is all about if he does then I doubt if he knows is part of our assignment what I’m saying he can never know they hardly read. Why does she read so much, don’t she know that’ eni to mo way lo mo iwe’ meaning the person that know the way is the one that is brilliant, that’s other student motto as well, those in that school of thought are the type that look up to the sky and down what do they see nothing but rain drops coming out from their eyes, what a failure generation of youth although the failure Henry Ford talked about is encouraging for ford failure is just a resting place. It is an opportunity to begin again more intelligently, for those of us that follow the Yoruba language way to know those who are intelligent failure is not in our way because we know the right pathway, for this smart reason their indirect failure that they call brilliant will make them successful yes people like that always succeed, they might be failure in school but excel in their business, nonetheless the ones that don’t have the opportunity to attend school are the hard working type they have no certificate to rely on but the hand of work, that is what fade felt when his hand touched her is not the hand that have the seriousness to read rather a hand of just work and work just like the famous maradona hand of God, where people careless how they achieve there means so far the end is justify, how it is achieve is not their concern this make fade feel peeve mostly not in conversation with her colleagues, how dare they do this and they say I am self center she said, many people say she only care about herself and always keep her thought and her personality only within her face.