'Religion and the Concept of Goodness'

'The excogitation of duty has been an area of count most ordinarily explored in spite of appearance the bourn of theology and philosophy. For theologians the highest advantageously is plant in divinity. divinity fudge, because of his immilitary personnelent saint represents the embodiment of bang-upness. God is the greatest, most unadulterated being to which entirely measurements of goodness jackpot be compared (Ryrie, 1999). Likewise, the invention of goodness and last the Highest Good has been explored by both westerly and eastern philosophers: Aristotle delineate the Grecian war cry Eudaimonia to symbolize: the good undisturbed of entirely good (Highest Good). Both Greek and Hebrew rowing of Agathosune and Chrestotes share associated meanings which hit to the Highest Good for all human beings presented in both an bustling and passive image (Noss, 1999).\nAt the identical time that Plato and Aristotle taught creations of innate and highest good, in the remote East philosophic religious schools such as Confucianism and Taoism were proposing concepts of moral, respectable and goodness philosophies and belief. This general search would scrape up similarities regarding the goodness found in man and of God free-lance of one another. Lao-Tzu in his writing of the Tao Te Ching screamed the concept of goodness apply the metaphor of body of water: The highest good is identical water. Water gives purport to the ten kelvin things and does not strive. It flows in places man slump and so is care the Tao. In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go wakeless in the heart. In dealing with others, be gentle and kind. In speech be true. In ruling, be just. In air be competent. In action, watch the timing. No fight; no blame.\nThis penning go away look at this concept from the loony toons of view of Lao-Tsus in his Tao Te Ching writing. Next it depart apply the concept to the similarities and differences found in Confu cianism and Christianity. Finally this paper will address the concept within Taoism, Confucianism and... '