Essays 361 - 390
warning regarding change: "Changes in estate also issue from this, for if, to one who governs himself with caution and patience, t...
in human society, agreed with Carl Jung that certain myths appear to represent archetypal forms that are common to all peoples. Ca...
one is virtuous, and that their actions are virtuous, but that might be illusive. Can virtue be whittled down to intrinsic right o...
Virtuous action was defined by Aristotle as what a person with practical wisdom would choose. The golden mean, as defined by Ari...
so moved by the portrayal of Adam that he begins to identify with Adam. Like Adam at the beginning of creation, he, too, is lonely...
various formal, stated ethics codes of nursing associations; nurse education programs; health care organizations; and certainly he...
The allusion to Oscar Wildes epigram--What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities--...
a longer period of time, which serves to dilute the effectiveness of presence and the experiences intensity. With the sensation o...
eras and toward different genders. The slave narratives of Douglass and Jacobs Douglass Narrative is the best known first-hand a...
when the Beowulf poet writes "Fate always goes as it must" (43) and "Fate often saves an undoomed man when his courage is good" (...
Aristotle. The sky is of course something that perhaps is significant in esoteric matters. After all, the sky is quite provocativ...
forced to take responsibility for their own lives, they grow tremendously and are obviously happier. The setting for the narrativ...
such endeavors she discovers that this is not the case. She tries to escape through passion, but finds that she is still a woman i...
researcher Dr. Ian Stevenson to investigate the validity of past lives, or reincarnation, as it appears in very young children. Th...
having inherent familiarity and truth, and others as alien in the sense of irrevocably different, and tempting in the sense that o...
in her own tragedy. While Sethe is still enslaved, she is treated by Schoolteachers despicable nephews as if she were no more th...
of women in medieval society, De Pizan wrote two of her most significant works, The Book of the City of Ladies and The Book of the...
natural instinct, an awareness of divinity," that "God himself has implanted in all men a certain understanding of his divine maje...
self through the eyes of others, have become touchstones for thinking about race in America. In addition to these enduring concept...
he was seeking to just gain a small piece of ground for the African American, trying to play the white mans game so that the Afric...
84). However, Socrates is willing to concede that an individual can desire an evil thing if he mistakenly first evaluates it as go...
into two intellectual worlds. Aristotle goes on to explain: " but with regard to what happiness is they differ, and the many do n...
the soul. What the mind or soul once knew is raised to present awareness by a process of recollection aided by the technique of di...
chastity and humility. He listed them subjectively, in what he regarded as their order of importance. But out of all these lauda...
a body" (Aristotle), Plato illustrates his inability to see beyond mankinds mortal connection, opting instead to focus upon a deci...
Conceptions of Virtue). Furthermore, it was Plato who argued that love was the essential ingredient in the good life because love...
thesis entitled The Practical Character of Reality: "...The order of the natural world itself necessarily includes our interaction...
Kantian ethical system as an impartial viewpoint: however, when one considers virtue ethics, it is evident that these come from ev...
house, the meals, and my life. Fiona never seemed to bother much with my brothers but she seemed to take a particular interest in...
Durheim, now looks on the structural functionalism theory as being useful in illustrating why certain sociological phenomena unfol...