Essay On Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises

“Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?” -Ernest Hemingway (The Sun Also Rises) In this quote, Ernest proposes a questions that nearly all people have pondered at one time. We don't get to plan in advance for life, it is occurring right now, so how should we live it? The two common ideologies can be categorized into two basic schools; the successful experience, and the moral experience. The adversary between these two is found in a fundamental difference in the premises. How we should live ultimately comes down to why one believes we are here. Philosophers have divided on this issue for centuries from ancient thinkers such as Thrasymachus, who believed that one should take advantage of what they can to gain success over others, or Aristotle, who believed that without morality life is meaningless. It is

Morality sounds like excellent conceptually. But why do we all ideally believe we should conduct ourselves in a right and virtuous manner and expect others to do the same. One way of explaining this is though the successful experience and moral expirance’s concept of purpose. A shovel is a human made tool of steel and wood to upheave dirt and dig; that is its purpose and what makes it a good shovel. We can be described in the same way. Humans are to survive, procreated, succeed. This, under natural selection and a secular worldview, is the ideal way to live. There is no need for morality or virtue unless to achieve a means such as someone’s favor. Virtue becomes frivolous. Virtue for the sack of virtue is like a dog chasing after its own tail. This is how the successful experience has drawn their conclusion but the moral experience inserts a very different assumption. They suppose that God is real. If this is indeed true then that would change why we are here, thus our purpose, and finally how we should