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5 pages. In Freud's book The Future of an Illusion, Freud points out that there are definite arguments between science and religion and that the two could never complement one another. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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FREUD While Freuds The Future of an Illusion represents the age-old argument between science and religion, he does it in such a way that makes it adamant there is no
compromise between the two. According to Freud, there is little good in the world that arises naturally and without coercion of one form or another, of one person to
another. Mans existence is rooted in aggression, and all individual concepts he had originated through his study of the mind Freud found he could apply to social theory.
As he ultimately ascribed guilt to nearly every concept he defined through case studies and in the process of refining his theories of personality, so he applied the same concepts
to civilization as a whole. After all, what is it but a collection of individuals? For Freud, the extrapolation of concepts derived for the individual was wholly right
and fair for application to society overall. Freud maintains that it is necessary to have laws to contain aggression, that without those laws anarchy would be the rule of the
day and there would be no hope of redemption or of change. The "eye for an eye" mentality fits better the realm of human reality than does the commandment
to love a neighbor as yourself. Freud is adamant that property and aggression have little to connect them aside from property being a scapegoat means to yield to the
aggression that is so natural for us. He points to its virtual reign in earliest history when there was little property over which to fight and its presence in
the youngest of children as his proof that aggression is a natural force in human nature and one that few of us are willing to contain. From the authors
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