• What is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?

     

    Eseja1 Filosofija

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Publicēts: 06.11.2005.
Valoda: Angļu
Līmenis: Vidusskolas
Literatūras saraksts: Nav
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  • Eseja 'What is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?', 1.
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Since the beginning of time and the civilization of mankind, people have always had a thirst for knowledge and power. Throughout history, humanity tried to find how and why everything came to be, why we live and die and how it all started.
There are cases in which a given person would do anything in exchange for wisdom and absolute knowledge. Like the tragic doctor Faustus who, as the story says, sells his soul to the devil despite his great education in philosophy, law, physics and so on. What he has gained is the power to do magic, but what he has lost cannot be substituted by anything.…

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