Analysis: The Human Condition

The human condition, the ongoing balance between good and evil inside people and their environment. This balance and struggle between the three areas affect personal, emotional, spiritual and mental growth. Similarly, humans illustrate a balance between aggression, selfishness, and lust mixed with compassion, love, trust, and hope. Humans allow for this equilibrium of an imperfect balance between good and evil. Similarly, No one’s inherently good nor inherently evil, instead attitude, purpose, and thought often determine whether people respond negatively or positively to both celebrations and/or tragedies. Therefore, The Human Condition balances both good and evil, while good and evil both exist on their own. Similarly, the inability to accept …show more content…
A Conflict which can be defined as, any type of difficulty or issue that a person comes across, can be interpersonal, intrapersonal or environmental. In Frankl’s “The Case for a Tragic Optimism”, He discusses how the current and past circumstances affect how people evolve and grow. He believed that how people perceive a situation will affect what they learn and how they use it in the future. A person who believes that the world has bullied them their entire life and becomes a victim will always be a victim. However, People who acknowledge their pain and accept that some things cannot be changed can always rise above their circumstances. Frankl stated, “if, on the other hand, one cannot change a situation that causes his suffering, he can still choose his attitude” (Viktor Frankl, The Case for a Tragic Optimism). Conflict allows for a person to either fight against the issue or just accept it. In connection to this, Frankl believed that pain offers the most amount of room for growth. In correlation, he also believed and illustrated that pain and conflict help lead to independence, love, acceptance, and hope. In his life, he stated that no matter how much pain he endured, he never lost hope. This hope for a better future almost made the pain hurt less. Finding a meaning or a lesson for the pain or conflict leads to …show more content…
The human condition illustrates how good and evil finds a balance that can impact people’s lives in so many ways. Cornel West’s “The Examined Life”, The Buddha’s “Thirst” from the Dhammapada, and Victor Frankl’s “The Case of a Tragic Optimism” all illustrate the pain, growth, courage, lust, and temptations that humanity faces. Thus, through humanity, one has the capability to see a conflict leading to growth. Frankl stated that “Since Auschwitz, we know what men are capable of. And since Hiroshima, we know what is at stake”(The Case of a Tragic Optimism). Because of Auschwitz, society has learned about how evil people can become, yet it illustrated the beauty of human compassion, love, and trust. Because of Auschwitz, families torn apart and destroyed, forged “new families” out of survival. The harshness and brutality forged something beautiful, growth and courage, so that one may have control over their own circumstance. Humanity has always struggled to find a balance between love and hate. Thus, no one’s born good or evil, just like no one’s born with hate. Overall, the human condition is finding the balance between good, evil and all of the grey area in