Topic of
Paper 1
| The Sermon on the Mountain enunciates new social ideals where tolerance,
altruism, and meekness become the bedrock of a morality for human salvation
and a better society. However, individual and collective experiences convincingly
point to the admission that the enunciated radical ethic tests to the extreme
limits human potentials. It is commonsense to admit failures, shortcomings,
and even imperfections as inherent to human nature, relationships, organizations,
and beliefs. Examining Nietzsche's excerpt below, would you agree with
the suggestion that his (Nietzsche's) claim is nothing but a reinforcement
of this observation about human nature as essentially an attempt to feed
one's will to power and any assumption to the contrary as purely speculative
and non achievable?
To demand of strength that it should not express itself as strength,
that it should not be a desire to overcome, a desire to throw down, a desire
to become master, a thirst for enemies and resistances and triumphs, is
just as absurd as to demand of weakness that it should express itself as
strength. (45)
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