Short Essay Example

Like the essay, the short essay It is a writing where the author expresses his personal point of view on a certain topic, and exposes the documents and publications that he relies on or contradicts. Four-part coast: summary, development or approach, conclusion and bibliography.

Unlike the essay, which is a writing of 4 or more pages (7,500 characters or more, including spaces), the short essay It has an extension of less than four pages, and may even consist of one paragraph for each section.

Short test example:

 Why do we have religion?

By Yotor911

Resume

The religious phenomenon has been considered and explained from many points of view. Some have explained it from the religious nuance itself, as the necessity product of a divine mandate, and therefore, without the need for justification. Meanwhile, other people, in opposition to that point, have explained it as a product and symbol of ignorance, even as a reflection of mental weakness and fragility.

Approach

Religion has been explained in many ways. It is spoken of from its historical origins, as an anthropological phenomenon, as a social phenomenon. Generally these points of view are not exempt from passions: from the theologians who take biblical revelation as their starting point and from there justify the existence of the world, to radically opposite points such as positivism, which considers religion as the most primitive intellectual state to explain itself the world.

But beyond these controversies, we have before us a much deeper question: Why do we have religion?

That "why" we can elucidate through the knowledge that psychology provides us. The human being is a limited being. If we suppose man (as a species, that is, as man and woman) in his most primitive state, when he has satisfied his vital needs and He is not in any danger, one night observing the immensity of the celestial vault, he becomes aware of how small he is in relation to the infinite. He thinks of the clan members who died during a hunt, from disease, or from some disease or cataclysm. He thinks about the strong animals that he chases or that chase him. He becomes aware that he is limited and weak. This feeling is the cosmic anguish: the anguish before the infinite.

In this state of anguish, the human being seeks an explanation for his limitation, to understand why, being such a weak animal, so at a disadvantage, he finds himself in this world. He wants to know what its purpose is. Faced with his finitude and doubts about the meaning of his life, another need arises: transcendence. Transcendence is the idea that the human being will have a continuity in his existence, that everything he does is not lost and ends with death.

Children are, among human beings, the most fragile and helpless. The child has the need to be cared for and understood by those around them, by adults. And at the same time, the child clings to those higher entities, his parents and the clan elders, from whom he receives protection and knowledge. The adult human being understands that just as the child has in his parents a superior and protective entity, he too requires the protection of a superior entity. In many cases these entities were thought of with the same structure and hierarchy of the family relationship: A great warrior of the tribe, and the matron of the clan, after his death, remain and They transcend: they protect the clan, encourage hunting, defend them from other clans... and their passions also continue to be the object: they feel anger, which is manifested in the lightning, the tremor or the storm; they also rejoice and give rain and fertility. They are deities of each clan, each group, each nation.

This need to cling to a higher and exclusive entity is what originates the religious phenomenon. This phenomenon has had different nuances in each epoch and geographical area, each one has had its own cosmology, its belief system, its hierarchy of gods and its rituals; and before the diversity of gods, it is also thought that their own, that of each group is superior or unique, and has dictated a system of truths that must be recognized by the rest of humanity. Today's man has that same need to cling to a superior and exclusive entity, which gives meaning to his life and the world around him. That is why we are faced with the absolutist meaning that is given to religions, the horoscope, witchcraft or science itself, each one of them as a system of absolute and irrefutable truths, to which the rest of beliefs must be bowed until their disappearance.

Conclution

Religion is a human need that arises from the moment he becomes aware of his finitude and his weakness. This need for a higher entity to explain the world around him and the meaning of his life and its significance is not unique to ancient man. Modern man still has the need to cling to a belief system and a higher entity that provides you with a system of beliefs and absolute truths that give meaning to the world and its transcendence. Religion, horoscope, ufology and science are some of the belief systems that contemporary man clings to.

Bibliography.

Antaki, Ikram. Religion. Editorial Joaquín Mortiz. Mexico, 2007.
James, William. The varieties of religious experience. Ed. Peninsula. 2ª. Ed., Madrid, 1994.