"Living in a fast paced society denies us the time we need to take a step back and discover who we are. Do you think that the people who struggle to keep up are the ones who have the time to get to know themselves better?"
Society is very fast paced and not everyone moves at the same pace to follow it. Maybe our mind can and our body cant, or vice versa. The people who can follow the fast pace are not necessarily the ones who are better off either. Just because they are moving along with the rest of society does not mean they know themselves fully and understand what they are trying to achieve. To tie this in with the reading from Pojman, Aristotle believed the body and soul were one together and that people who use their body are superior to those who dont and are natural slaves. The rational people who use their bodies supposedly will rule over the inferior people but will be kind to them. Is this a right way of thinking? That there can be inferior and superior people. We all have a life to live in which to grow and function and to discover our purpose of nature. I dont know if its really possible for someone to fall behind in discovering themselves and getting to know themselves better because life moves at its own pace aside from society and everyone is different.
If we as humans are the only animals with the ability to reason, why is it that we have the right to decide what animals' purposes in life are? Cant they just live their lives the way they want to?
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