Positive And Negative Aspects Of The Human Condition

The human condition encompasses negative and positives aspects about being a human, but some do not realize that the positives and negatives come intertwined. You cannot speak of one aspect without involving the rest. Three aspects of the human condition include conflict, growth and death. Surprisingly they go hand in hand.

Choice makes us human. In “The Genealogy of Morals” Friedrich Nietzsche makes an interesting point when he attempts to explain why we use God as a coping mechanism. “Then this guilt-ridden man seized upon religion in order to exacerbate his self-torment to the utmost.” We, humans, stand below God but above animals that way we can blame our animal like instincts for our mistakes instead of ourselves. However, at some point in our life the guilt we carry around with us will become too much and according to Nietzsche the reason we practice religion. The light of religion dissipates the darkness of our animal like instincts. Friedrich Nietzsche says that “in this night of torment and absurdity the cry love ring out, the cry of rapt longing, or redemption in love, he must turn away with a shudder of invincible horror…”. Spiritual growth directly leads to the turning away from darkness and the attempting to make the right choices in life.

Charles Schultz used the most successful comic strip of all time, the Peanuts, to teach people lessons he could not teach himself. Schultz used the main character, Charlie Brown, to indirectly teach his audience that one