HPHL011 : Introduction to Philosophy Assignment 2022

NAME AND SURNAME: TUMELO RAGOLANE
STUDENT NUMBER: 202152619
MODULE: INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY
MODULE CODE: HPHL011
LECTURER: MS BOITUMELO MOKALAPA
FACULTY: HUMANITIES
SCHOOL: SOCIAL SCIENCES
DUE DATE: 15 MAY 2021
TOPIC: PHILOSOPHY ASSIGNMENT 1

TABLE OF CONTENTS
CONTENT PAGE
1. Can humanity claim to be free? 1
2. Explain the Allegory of The Cave with
the South African governance. 2
3. Formulate your Philosophy definition
and explain it. 3
4. Is it possible for a finite being to love
infinitely? 3
5. How is Philosophy relevant in our
everyday life? 3
6. Differentiate Sophistry from
Philosophy.
7. List of references
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1. CAN HUMANITY CLAIM TO BE FREE?
Freewill is defined as the ability or capacity for human beings to act or change without
constraint. Something is “free” if it can change easily and is not constrained in its present
state.
To support my statement, I will be referring to the King James Version and New Living
Translation Holy Bible(s).
1. Galatians 5:13
“You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to
indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love.”
2. Joshua 24:15
“And if it seems evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will
serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the
flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my
house, we will serve the Lord.”
3. John 7:17
“If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or
whether I speak of myself.”
4. Galatians 5:16-17
“This I say then, walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. For the
flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the other: so that ye cannot do
the things that ye would.”
These verses state that we as humans have freewill; the ability to act or change (granted by
Him), however, the Spirit and God Himself are there to lead us in the right direction. In other
words, in as much as we’d like to believe that we are free, in reality everything around us, such
as the people we spend time with, the things we watch and listen to, believe in and so on all
influence the final decision that we make.
Therefore, humanity cannot claim to be free because we exist not to fulfill our own will but
God’s. He alone sets and knows our purpose until such a time when He allows us to discover
and act upon it. The lusts of the flesh that eventually lead us to sin distract us from being one
with the spirit and initially being truly free. Freewill then becomes a mere figment of our
imagination: we’d like to believe or think that we are free without understanding the true
essence of freedom or freewill which is separating the FLESH from the SPIRIT. Once we as
humans learn to let go of our earthly desires and accept that they are momentary, and start
being one with the spirit, only then can we be and claim to be truly free.
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