Human Nature and Ultimate Good
There is the question on what is the ultimate good. The ultimate good is basically the core of human nature. The discovery of the ultimate good is not a process of defining what is good but rather rediscovering what is our original disposition¡Xto do which is right. There is an emerging perspective in which judgment of what is good is submerged in the culture and historicity of the person. However there is a need to consider that the pursuit of good is universal. Regardless of culture, humans know that to kill is not good and to steal property is not good. The main point is that the pursuit of ultimate good is human¡¦s natural predisposition. It is innate in humans to be good. Unconsciously, we perform actions, which are in pursuit of this ultimate good because it in our nature.
However, historicity and our submersion into cultures create some barriers in our discovery of this ultimate good. There are lots of environmental influences and institutional forces that would hinder people from rediscovering our human nature. The paradigm of people or the way people look at the environment is molded inside the family, the school, and the society in general. This paradigm however is culture-specific. This however does not mean that humans are bound to act according to these paradigms.
The problems of the search for the ultimate good remained as an important dilemma in the society today. This could be seen in the way corporate ethics failure has become prevalent in the corporate world. One would see here a basic failure, which is the kind of good that people are searching. The failure of ethics in the corporate world is a result of people unable to see things through the lens of humans¡¦ original beingness. This means that people in thei ...