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There are lots of question in our minds that cannot be answered by human reason alone, our mind is not capable of answering and knowing these uncertainties not because of our lack of willingness to know things but through the minds limitations, it’s a fact that there are things that we know and things that we don’t know, to support this statement, The critique of pure reason according to Immanuel Kant is that to point out a knowledge based on experience according to him as posteriori knowledge and that of the universal knowledge we individually experience in turn is the Priori knowledge, my point is that we cannot stop wondering of things since we are imperfect human beings who were not fed with all the mysteries …show more content…
Hegel’s notion on the concept of right is that first, we must try to understand within ourselves human behavior as to the actions of other people. Individual, for Hegel, are aware of freedom. We express it from our own acts of our will. He said that “only as thinking intelligence, will is free will.” For according to him, there is more to “goodness” than merely obeying the laws of our countries and keeping contracts. Morality for him has to do with those acts for which human beings can be held responsible, for Hegel, the essence of morality is located within a person’s purpose. Moral responsibility, then, begins with the acts that can be designated to a free will, a will that intends the act. Also the stoic philosopher Epictetus said that moral Philosophy was a form of an act, where each person is an actor/ actress in a drama, he means that an actor does not chose a role, it is the author or the director who does the picking. In the drama of the world it is God who is the author or the director, who will pick out whom the person will be portraying and what to portray and or how he or she will be situated in the story, people have no choice because it is God who is responsible for the

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