The Ontological Limitation of Being in Existential World: A Study of Tewfik, Al-Hakim’s Fate of a Cockroach

Abstract

The Scientific and technological innovations are obviously designed to unravel the mystery and secret of nature for human being to live in harmony. Unfortunately, science and technology are still far behind in this attainment. They are seeing, only promoting material wealth and failed to promote spiritual wealth necessary to guarantee such harmonious living. There have been climatic changes that promote global warming in the universe. The effect of this global warming can be found in incessant global pandemics that ravage the world from time to time. The current issue of corona virus (Covid-19) is a pointer to this issue as scientist and technologist still fail to provide solution to curb the effect of the pandemic world over. In as much that science and technology cannot provide solution to climatic changes which led to global warming and of which the product is the global epidemic that we are witnessing from time to time, it is, therefore, imperative that man should design various means to exist amidst the pandemics which, as a result of scientific and technological activities are posing threat to the harmonious living to beings in the universe. This study is designed to observe the reactions of beings to the problems of nature as well as the problems created by the scientists and technologists, one of which is the “corona virus” (covid-19), the world is still battling with in this world of the existence. An in-depth analysis of Tewfik, Al-Hakim’s Fate of a Cockroach is done to seeing how man is able to live and adapt at the period of anguish and to suggesting the ways forward despite man’s limitation in the existential world. Carl Marx “Existentialism” is used as a mode of analysis to make suggestions to man on how he could exist and move forward in the existential world. The study revealed that man needs to keep on struggling against all life’s vicissitudes pose on beings by nature, science and technological activities in the universe.