Reflection On Human Life

Final paper

Life is a learning process and during our life journey we will face challenges in forms of obstacles. Also, living on the earth, surrounded by selfish people whose objectives are self-satisfaction and self-preserved, it is important to acknowledge that the term “human nature” can refer to many things in humans, such as their biological needs or their tendency to age (Estlund,2011). Man’s nature is the sum of his natural faculties and powers… For these powers we do unanimously call natural and are contained in the definition of man under these words, animal and rational” (Hobbes & Tönnies, n.d.). we will get to face difficulties in trying to act for our self-interest, we will cry, fight and enter competitions with others and all this at the end will strengthen us and help us to build our personality.

Growing up in the African environment and in a Christian family, I learned how to strengthen my personality, I learned how to develop the good within me. At some point in time I was just living life without caring much about people around me and I adjusted to situations accordingly as they came. But the fundamental fact of human life is that people produce the means of their subsistence by adding the values to natural conditions. In the process, human beings distinguish themselves from animals. So, as time went on I learned how to stand for my moral values while being ethical and fair. Ethics, also called moral philosophy, the discipline concerned with what is