Some historians believe that the seed of the American culture could be traced back to the Puritan society. ... The Puritans had an obsession and an unbalanced fascination with the unseen world and the bad omens of witches. ... Some historians believe that Puritanism was a good cause that went bad. ... Puritanism is, in a sense, the seed of Americanism. ...
Caring only for the pursuit of profit, even with harm, a bad person only follows personal desire. ... What makes a person good or bad is much the same amongst the leading views, but the idea that man is born with an evil nature is not. ... While Hsun-Tzu believed that man was naturally evil, I believe that people are actually born with both the seed of good and evil. One's growth of the seeds depends very much on the environment surrounding him or her, especially when young. ... It is circumstance and upbringing that lead one to being good or bad. ...
This testament served as one of few written accounts of how bad slavery could be and why it shouldn't exist at all. "I began to raise my fear from man to him alone, and to call daily on his holy name with fear and reverence: and I trust he heard my supplications, and graciously condescended to answer me according to his holy word, and to implant the seeds of piety in me, even one of the meanest of his creatures" (Equiano, 88). ...
Confucianism took a humanistic approach in which an individual's action determined whether they were good or bad. ... He perceived benevolence as seeds, like apple seeds, which after being sown, will sprout and grow. " This renders the idea that an individual uses oneself as a role model to standardize one's behavior in relative to others around them. ...
To approach any text we must first have some understanding of what it is we hope to take away from it. In approaching a religious text this understanding becomes even more muddled due to the vast complexities and differences that exist between religion and contemporary thought. To accurately approach biblical thoughts we, as moderns, must learn to "unthink many thoughts" resulting from our present alienation of religion and spirituality. God in Search of Man, a text written almost half a century ago by Abraham Joshua Heschel, is the subject of our present inquiry. This text will, no doubt,...
