Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Essay on Man
- Philosophical optimism
- the belief that everything was created at for a good purpose
- Nature is created perfect
- Clearly seen in Pope's essay
- Leibiz's Theodicty
- Justification of Imperfections in our world
- How did evil come into this world?
- God's creations are not wise/powerful
- Religion cannot contradict philosophy
- Faith cannot contradict reason
- God cannot contradict himself
- "Whatever is, is right"
- Demonstrates that pope believes that whatever exist has some form of truth in it
- Target of Pope's Satire
- Scientists
- Also against those that who attempted to use rationality to disprove god
- Aristocrats
- Diesm
- the belief that in observation and reason of the natural world exists
sufficient proof that God is Real
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deism
- accompanied with the rejection of revelation and authority as a source of religious knowledge
- Argument from design
- This suggests that God designed the world in such a way that it included the possibility of evil, but that if rightly
perceived, we would understand that all of it works together for a greater good.
- http://www3.dbu.edu/mitchell/popetheo.htm
- The Problem of Evil
- How can we reconcile the existence of evil with God?
- God created imperfect beings who can make mistakes
- Great Chain of Being
- Derived from Plato and Aristote
- Religious hierarchical system
- God
- Angels and Demons
- Stars and Moon
- Kings, Princes, Nobles, and Men
- Wild Animals and Domesticated Animals
- Trees and Plants
- Stones, Metals, and Minerals
- What methods does Pope use in his satire?
- He does not actively attack the pompousness of British aristocracy in his time, he just makes it easy to
see how ridiculous the aristocrats were
- http://www.studentpulse.com/articles/545/satire-in-18th-century-british-society-alexander-popes-the-rape-of-the-lock-and-jonathan-swifts-a-modest-proposal
- What kind of satire is this?
- It is Horatian it is due in large part to human failures. It is a formal form of satire because of the audience for
which it was written
- http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2428/2428-h/2428-h.htm
- Symmetry and artifice
- Balance in the world
- God had created enough good in the world to balance out the evil.
- Humans deception if something is real or not. And does it please us.
- Didactic
- Didatic is "intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive."
- Pope
- intends to teach us that humans need to think for ourselves
- believes that people will believe that God has created the
perfect world