The Meaning Of Life And Deontology

The meaning of life and deontology

Introduction

Deontology is a branch of ethics occupied to regulate the fundamentals of duty and moral norms that are required for a professional group, that is, for people who work in any field. Deontology is related to the meaning of life because people can make sense of their lives in the place they work, this is because work occupies a large part of the time of the human being, so finding the truepersonal vocation is of the utmost importance. 

Remembering history, you can offer us a lot of cases in which a decision has committed millions of lives. Moral and ethics should be part of every human being and even more for the professional, the difference between ethics and morals is based on the fact that ethics is the theoretical study of morals, that is, reflection on free acts andThe argumentation of the reasons for the action, while morality are the actions of the subjects and answers the question. What should be done? The work is always human, although you are talking about the technical work, the scientific work, of the investigator’s work, it will always be the work of a person, and as such he has a moral and personal responsibility of what he is doing.

The following document discusses issues such as: the importance of vocation, professional responsibility, duties and principles, the meaning of life from a psychological approach, the ethical perspectives of the meaning of life according to some thinkers and some philosophical doctrines, betweenothers.

The perspectives that are presented do not deepen them because they are very extensive, but the essence of such views is shown so that the person knows and can consider which one that adjusts for themselves according to their experiences and theirway of thinking.

Developing.

Horacio Bernardo in his research on what life is? Concludes the following: “We talk about life as if we knew what it means, but as soon as we try to define its meaning, the concept of life vanishes us. What do we do to solve the paradox? Alternative roads can, in great traits, be four. The first one is the one that leads us to skepticism / immobility, but this would imply falling into a linguistic fallacy by which, based on linguistic impossibility, we conclude the factual impossibility. 

The second of them is to resort to empiricism, calling life to what we observe as alive. But how can you observe something that cannot be clearly identified? In the case of life, how can we rely our conception of life based on what we observe as live if it is impossible for us to find criteria to identify living objects? Thirdly, we can opt for conventionalism / pragmatism, that is, find an arbitrary definition that convinces us and, if possible, it is useful to us. However, defining an inexplicable term based on explainable terms destroys the concept, which is not saved even if we all participate in a kind of universal agreement.

 I insist, even if all men and women agree on a definition, we could find it, because what we would have defined would no longer be life. Finally, their room (to which we adhere), is to understand the concept ‘life’ within the inexplicable terms and overcome the stumbling block. And this implies abandoning the question What is life?, abandoning the differentiation between ‘being’ and ‘being alive’ and focusing our analysis on the concept of being. And this does not imply a mere ‘flight’ to the problem, but a change in our way of addressing the subject, considering all beings as belonging to a single class, whether they are as disparate as a monkey, a river, a stone, a stone,A clock, a flower or a car.

 And this arises from all the previous analysis, since the distinction between living and not alive, only makes sense in a non -explanatory language, because we admit our ignorance and we do not intend to lift it. For the purpose of moving forward in the sciences that seek. More than ‘life’, we can only pretend to know and create ‘beings’, therefore, notice, that overcoming this stumbling block will not only save us ink and time, but will allow us to direct our research towards deeper and more richer elements;towards the structures.

Personal fulfillment

Personal fulfillment is understood as the yearning for every human being to achieve happiness, even if it is not clear where you will find it, this desire is in the deepest. This realization is directly related to the personal vocation, because when the person is being what it really is, when he is displaying the abilities that he has within himself;When he feels living and vibrating with everything his being in everything encounter with life, with truth, with beauty and, above all, with love, it can be said that he has reached the realization.

The vocation is that inclination or interior called to carry out an trade or profession with an active and enthusiastic performance. Identifying the vocation or guide of human work from an early age is a great advantage for the personal growth of the individual, contrary, the lack of such a guide, generates the uncertainty of the future and lack of goals, causes of many of the psychological traumas of beinghuman.

Life’s sense

The question for the meaning of life is a fairly recent question. The question appears in the second half of the nineteenth century, around 1875. Before there was the equivalent of that question, but it was raised with other terms or with other formulations, but, it is very important to be clear about the meaning of life. The purpose is related to the meaning of life because if one is clear, any will help the human being overcome himself and move on despite the difficulties that arise, leaving behind mistakes of the past that can stop him. 

This question for the meaning of life is usually considered as the deepest question of philosophy, mundane or academic: even man is defined as being able to interrogate by the sense of being, of his existence, of his life;Thus, Heidegger. The question is usually asked in this way: what is the meaning of life? There are no lack: religious, moral, policies: life is the execution of a comedy, or a tragedy, written by an idiot. But neither are those who do not find such answers satisfactory and get to doubt the consistency of the questions: «Does it make life felt? Is not meaningless life, even a contradiction, since it ends inevitably with death? .

Sense of life from the psychological approach

The meaning of life can also be studied from psychology because when studying on human behavior, it allows to better understand the subjective conditions of the acts of the subjects, where the professionals experts in this profession will be of great help so that thehuman being find your own meaning. Why does psychology contribute to the understanding of the meaning of life? Because it has a better understanding of morals, because it is responsible for studying the different internal motivations that arise in human beings and influence their behavior, character, temperament and personality, helps examine volunteer acts, formation of certain habits,Start of moral consciousness and moral judgments.

According to Pérez, people who come to consultation with loss of personal meaning have characteristics such as: hopelessness and lack of a present or future life project, as well as the impoverishment of their prosocial values and the existence of various irrational ideas, especiallyof personal disability and finally a great apathy and a certain feeling of helplessness.

 The person who has lost its meaning and feels that nothing makes sense, can develop an attitude that leads to bitterness to despair and therefore seek solution through drug use, suicide or other inappropriate actions. And to solve this problem, solutions such as: work on the restructuring of life philosophy, develop the feeling of community establishing new goals and objectives and finally the coping of their irrational ideas can be addressed.

Ethical perspectives of the meaning of life according to some thinkers and some philosophical doctrines:

• Albert Camus

Human existence makes no sense to seek it is useless. The fact that the existence is absurd means that it does not matter what we do or choose, because anyway we remain indifferent to a world and a reality that does not have any meaning, despite this we must not interpret the absurdism of Camus as Camus asA pessimistic and rejection philosophy of life, on the contrary, affirms that despite the absurd nature of existence, life acquires incalculable value and that with all possible sufferings that the same existence implies, it is valuable and worthy of living it butTo live it with passion of that hero who, despite being aware that his task is useless, he performs it with dignity and without fainting .Erich Fromm

According to Fromm, man cannot live as a simple object, he suffers seriously when he is reduced to the level of a feeding machine, that is, only to meet his material needs, even if he has all the assurances he wants. And if you fail to find satisfaction at a higher level, create the drama of destruction for itself.

• Kant

Kant’s point of view states that morality is not based on emotion, compassion, consciousness, intuition, tradition, but in pure reason, that is, the human being is free, can resist desire andact according to the objective that is marked. According to Kant “you must act on all occasions so that I always want my conduct to become universal law.

• Ludwig Feuerbach

Man should not be good to be happy, no!, Rather, he must be happy to be good, because man cannot be good if, before, he is not happy or happy. Being good depends on well -being. Feuerbach considers happiness as the content and principle of moral.

• Schopenhauer

From Schopenhauer’s perspective, the suffering of each individual comes from their tireless and vain search to satisfy all their interests, desires and hopes and the consequent imbalance between what we want and expect and what is effectively given us.

• Nietzsche

If the meaning of life is imposed by a religion, the person is comfortably with that sense that imposed him, he will not be necessary to take a risk because people are already being given a goal that, when imposed over time, will stopHaving meaning, the meaning of life should be understood as something of one’s own, should not be of another for me. In other words, Nietzsche not only annihilates God and all its manifestations, it also tries to take a turn, to invent a new world, a task that corresponds to the creative superman. The creative superman assumes the plurality of forces of the will to power and organizes them according to their goals.

• Viktor Frankl

The sense of life based from Víctor Frankl’s logotherapy, affirms that in life there is an unconditional sense that needs to be discovered by the human being, that is, to find a purpose and assume a responsibility for himself and with others. This sense is varying from one moment to another and from one person to another, without depending on internal or external conditions. The meaning is in the world, therefore, man needs to transcend himself for something or someone to create a more friendly environment. 

Conclusions.

By identifying the vocation or guide of human work from an early age it is a great advantage for the personal growth of the individual, contrary, the lack of such a guide, generates the uncertainty of the future and lack of goals, causes of many of the psychological traumasof the human being, it is essential to keep in mind ethics in all professions, because he has the main role for the progress of a country, the professional must be prepared and apply the ethical principles that have instilled in his family, school or society, helping society develop correctly and the individual achieves its existential purposes. 

The meaning of life can also be studied from psychology because when studying on human behavior, it allows to better understand the subjective conditions of the acts of the subjects, where the professionals experts in this profession will be of great help so that thehuman being find your own meaning. The professional must be able to develop their activities in a responsible manner, forcing him to assume his actions or to respond to something of his profession, the responsibility deals with where the person must account for the result of their actions.