Since the beginning of the life of humanity, there has been vehement relevance of social interaction. For instance, these interactions are accompanied with specific believes that concern every situation. In this respect, people’s conditions are shaped by the kind of belief system that exists within their day-to-day lives (Gensler 4). As a result, religion plays a very fundamental part in uniting people together. Moreover, there have been certain norms and values that determine how people exist together. These norms dictate what is perceived to be good and bad, right and wrong. In fact, these values are passed from one generation to another through formal training, or sometimes-through organized social constructs. In other words, as religious seeks to establish the relationship between the human beings and the deity, it also seeks to determine the best ways of making this intended relationship more sustainable. According the universal believes among the religions of the world, the human person must live in peace and harmony with each other to collectively impress the deity. In reality, every religion has a definite, specific a comprehensive code of ethics that nurture their interaction.
However, there exist differences between different people in relation to how they respond to the deity. For instance, people worship God in different ways depending on their mode of revelation about him (Berys, and Lopes 24). This has led to different doctrines in different religious movements. The worst experience is the view that those people who prophesy the religion different from another group is perceived as an enemy. For example, Christians believed in the teachings of Jesus Christ, who remains the messiah that they believe Old Testament scriptures call the world savior. On the other hand, Muslims believe solely on the teachings of Prophet Mohammad, and perceive Jesus as a normal prophet rather than the promised messiah. With these contrary opinions, it is possible that without proper understanding about what informs these differences people easily get into war in the name of religion. In fact, the world has w itnesse4s several wars fought in the name of religion. For example the Holocaust of 1945 in Germany, even though was politically motivated, it was religiously instigated.
Besides, Michael Sandel establishes the pursuit of peace in human interactions, and tries to investigate the relevance of justice and the way it manifests itself. He believes that specific laws determine what an individual can do to another person and that that should he should guide the society or she should not do. The justice system has prohibitions about certain behaviors, which when breached then attract certain consequences. In his illustration, Sandel believes in the general care that the human person must across the board and in his own words maintains “Greed is a vice, a bad way of being, especially when it makes people oblivious to the suffering of others” (10). Meaning, every person should strive to do good, since it is morally right to do good. However, other people refute the claim of justice, claiming it is a pretence claim that other people use in order to manipulate others. Plato is against the concept of justice and its antidotes, since it is what led to the death of his teacher Socrates (Berys, and Lopes 32). He says that justice is served to the people with an expectation that the people themselves do not understand. He adds that serving justice to the populace is like feeding a cow, not with an interest of making it healthy, but with the total focus of making it fat for the slaughter.
In reality, the society would be good if people would understand the concept of peace and ethics in their usual interactions. Sometimes it becomes hard to tell whether establishing peace in the world has become a difficult challenge to humanity, or they are unwilling to make it real. For instance, human beings are from time to time coming up with new inventions. In fact human is the most innovative animal than any other existing living being in the face of the other living thing per say (Gensler 5). The biggest question is that does it mean that the human person has learnt the skills of lying with an aeroplane, yet cannot understand the simple chemistry of living in peace and harmony? This should remain a concern to every individual regardless of social affiliations and economic position. According to Aristotle, leaders have the mandate of leading people in a more articulate way, guided by the rule of law. On the contrary, it has been a common phenomenon that the leaders remain the most notorious lot that give less regard to the law. Therefore, it should be a common concern to everybody to sustain peace.
The rule of ethics determines the right and wrong in every sphere of human interaction. There is code of ethics in the work places that people must observe in their areas of jurisdiction. It is ironically sad that people are aware of what they should do but chose to do the wrong. In fact, people are good at making rules, and are good at breaking them. In studying religion, it is good that the concept of ethics is well understood so that it becomes an avenue of establishing peace and unity. Ethics maintain that an individual should know the relevance of and do it because he or she knows it is good, not because he is coerced to do it. According to Plato, reckoning on the words of Socrates, morality is virtue, and doing bad is due to the lack of knowledge (Berys, and Lopes 24). He believes that people do badly because they have frailty of knowledge on the benefits of doing well. In other words, if people would have the proper knowledge of the good then they would do nothing rather than that which is good. The only challenge remains at the point of making people realize the virtue of goodness. In fact, many people are aware that doing well is good but cannot refrain from it. Therefore, there are a lot to pursue in the concept if goodness.
Moreover, human reality deserves peace and comfort, but is bad those people only care about what makes them happy but do not mind about the welfares of others. In retrospect, the human psychology is so selfish in determining the trails of his or her happiness. That is why Freud maintained that Oedipus could kill his father, when he realized that he was an impediment to marrying his mother (Berys, and Lopes 42).. The act of looking at life at an egocentric grounds have distorted the concept of ethics, where someone decides to go against the norms, even with the in-depth understanding that doing so is against the ethical standards. The same human selfishness exists everywhere, even in places that people call sacred. For instance, there are frequent divisions in religious moves across the world. For example, Christianity has gone through different divisions with lots of anathemas, where many leaders are declared heretics. Not that alone, Islamic religion has also gone through the same, revolting around the caliphate position leading to the Sunni and the Shia Muslims. Even sadder, people fight each other after breakups, a phenomenon that has dominated the world with constant blood sheds and pains, where individuals aim to exterminate others who challenge their faiths.
It would be better for people to understand that people living in the world with individual differences, a reality that should be allowed to remain as such. Nobody should force another person to follow his belief system, unless the person is fully convinced to follow the same (Berys, and Lopes 33). According to the rules that control the society, there are normative values that state clearly that people need each other, while also acknowledging that people differ in their individual capacities. Therefore, it is good for the society to strive and live in peace in order to achieve the benefits that come with people’s interactions. In fact, individual differences among the people should attract positive impacts to help the societal growth.
In conclusions, people’s circumstances are fashioned by the kind of belief system that exists within their everyday lives. As an upshot, faith plays a very important part in uniting people together, but can also divide people as this work has demonstrated. Moreover, there have been certain norms and values that determine how people exist together. These norms dictate what is perceived to be good or bad, right or wrong. Human is the greatest advanced animal than any other existing living being in the face of the other living thing in the world. Due to the differences that have been the main threat to the world peace, many attempts have been made to explain the paradoxes that come along religion. There have been the scientific approach through psychological realms of reasoning, philosophical approaches and sociotechnical approaches.
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