One Determine What One Ought To Do Analysis

Jacqueline Pavis
Professor Yeo
PHIL 1115EL02
31 October 2010
How Does One Determine What He “Ought To Do”? Throughout the course of one’s whole lifetime, the constant question of what to do with one’s own life is brought up numerous times. How does one configure what he or she ought to do with their own life? What should an individual take into consideration while deciding what to do and also what other outside influences are also evident in helping the individual reach their decisions? There are so many choices that an individual could make and those choices could either be negative or positive. An individual must take into consideration how the choices he or she decides to make are going to affect the people around them and also how
Outside influences could range from anything such as family, friends, events, culture and perhaps social institutions. Family is a major component in any individual’s life. Family is where an individual first learns how to socially interact and where values and traditions are mainly instilled. Family is where you are first taught how to think, feel, and act within society. Family and culture tie into an individual’s identity in such depth that no matter where the individual may end up later in life, that he or she is able to come back and relate to them no matter what has occurred. An individual’s parents are the most influential within the family. Because they are older and have experienced life and what goes on within it, the individual is in a sense obligated to listen to what they have to say. And because parents did most of the decision making for you as a child, the individual may rely more on their input and opinions about what it is that he or she ought to do. In addition, siblings also play an important role. The way siblings may have treated the individual whilst growing up may also have an effect on what decisions are made by providing the most social interaction within the household. Siblings may also be able to provide insight on what the individual is
An event such as a tragic death of a person close to the individual may alter their views on certain areas of their own lives. The individual may give more thought about what he or she ought to do with their life after realizing how life is something not to be taken for granted. Also, depending on how highly thought the individual thought the deceased person was, the individual may want to adopt their life causes as his or her own and continue. Also an event can just inspire the individual to try new things and experiment to find out what he or she prefers to subjected