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Pope Essay on Man_ Human Prospect

Pope Essay on Man_ Human Prospect

Q After many readings, I am still stung by this masterpiece. I only ask you to read and ponder enough of it to spur a key idea about which you would like to write in a one-page response. Again, these are your thoughts I wish to read, provoked by Pope's writing. You don't have to agree with him, nor do you have to speak a position of which I agree. Personally, I find this piece intriguing because of all the ways he describes human nature as a tension between two opposites--sometimes every couplet introduces yet another dual aspect of the human spirit that creates a struggle in our understanding of life. This essay will be read only by me (unless you choose to distribute it to your classmates).

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After reading Alexander Pope’s “Essay on Man” I feel that it is too idealistic. There are few ideas presented by him that I don’t agree with him not because he is wrong but because the relevance of his ideas cannot be traced in today’s world. Fe of the ideas presented by him in this essay are—firstly, that there is a God of infinite wisdom; second idea is that God created a world that is best possible world; third idea is the plenum which means this whole universe is real and hierarchical; fourthly, the good can happen when it happens for everyone and not for isolated ones; fifth idea would be that human behaviour is motivated by self love and social love; sixth idea would be attainability of virtue and lastly whatever is, is right.