Philosophy

Philosophy

Introduction

Every human society consists of one basic idea tingeing every detail of the activity that is the general concept of status of the person in a group, consider different from any special preeminence. In these societies when people emerge into civilization, they recognize each other as person who exercises passions, emotions, discomfort or comfort, fears, hopes, purposes, and perceptions. It also involves the influence of rational understanding which involves distinction of details of characters, judgment of ugly or beautiful, good or bad, and true or false. Lives of people pass unclearly and flittingly entertaining groups of these types of experiences, and they attribute like way of existence to others.

The noble discontent developed ethics or morality in humankind by providing the rational thinking or intellectual behavior. This morality is fused by the human soul that is capable of differentiating between right and wrong, or good or bad. It has also given the rise to beauty of intellectualism, besides its power, and the duty which is dependent on it. The morality and ethics are attached with the soul of human kind that has been developed due to the cause of noble discontent.

Discussion

Noble Discontent

Alfred North Whitehead structured the term “noble discontent” in his book 'Adventures of Idea', by beauty, intelligence and duty. According to him noble discontent is drives a man to a higher rational thinking and that is why it is a key ingredient in the ethical and intellectual development of human society.

The human comes to know differences in thoughts, is directly related to the nobility of soul. The discontent used by Whitehead in his quote is related how humans become more aware of their moral choices that supports them to their maintain commitment and loyalty to longevity and greater mental capabilities. Human mind is able to use the rationality; these principles are fused by the soul which led to the evolutionary process from the lower animal. This is the reason that animal self becomes lesser through the initiation of significant differentiation between what is right and what is wrong, in the application of thought, especially when human mind comes up with breakthrough ideas that advances humanity to greater spheres of ideological coordination or implementation in reality. Thus, the 'noble discontent' has made the human mind distinctive and led towards the more sophisticated human mind.

Role Whitehead gives to 'Noble Discontent' in His Understanding of Human History

In human life, the factors that challenge the noble discontent is the gradual development into the eminence of a sense of criticism, which can be discovered due to the appreciation of beauty, intellectual distinction, and duty. Other factors of experience derive the moral element, as otherwise there is no content of duty to function upon. The morality cannot exist in mere vacuum. Hence, the essential factors in experience are the first animal passions for example ferocity, love, sympathy, satisfaction, others and secondly, the more particularly human experiences of beauty and of intellectual excellence, which is enjoyed ...