In this essay I will explore Ren and the Human Ethical Condition. Speciffically I will be looking at what makes human being individual beings, in that part I will be discussing how humans are social creatures in the sense of what social, relational and inter-rational creatures actually mean. In part two I will be looking at my above answer and will be explaining the role of traditions in the human condition. In my conclusion I will be summarizing all of the above discussed topics from part one and part two.
Part One Confucius like most of mankind believed that humans were made to be apart of the greater society, meaning that we as humans should not be made into isolated creatures that we were made to be social, and that we are also made to have relationships and that we are inter-relational beings. Now what does that mean? When it comes to being social, the dictionary definition according Merriam-Webster, one of the many definitions of being social is relating to human society, the interaction of the individual and the group, or the welfare of human beings as members of society, So in …show more content…
Next, Confucius believes that us as humans were made to be relational and have relationships with others, according to Merriam-Webster the meaning of relational means the relation connecting or binding participants in a relationship, this could be referring to a multitude of relationships such as a relationship with a God, or a lover, or maybe even a relationship with a coworker or boss. Finally, he believed that humans were made to be interrelational meaning that humans were made to have mutual relationships with each other. What then comes up is the question, to what extent are human beings actually individual-beings. The line that is crossed that makes us individual beings but also social being is that we are