As a result of these two different beliefs, our cultures have been shaped and are continuing to be shaped based on what we believe about our origins. This paper will focus on comparing and contrasting the two competing views on our origins and how they have shaped our mindsets in regards to morality and value of life, and the purpose in life. ... The origin of human beings is a random, unplanned event that serves no special purpose other than to fill a spot in the ecological scheme of things. ... He believes in survival of fittest, which is built from an evolutionary foundation on the origi...

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For a while now I've been going through a long thought process wondering not "What is man? " but "What am I?- and where I belong in the garden maze known as life. My philosophy on all the topics that we've had in this course and those that I've experienced in my life are rather optimistic, hypocriti...

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Soul are in many respects sensitive to ways of speaking and thinking about the soul [psuchê] that are not specifically philosophical or theoretical. We therefore begin with what the word 'soul' meant to speakers of Classical Greek, and what it would have been natural to think about and assoc...

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