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The Western Tradition of Psychology

Psychiatry is a relatively new discipline yet its roots can be traced back to philosophers such...

Theories of Tragedy from Aristotle to Freud

audience feel watching a tragedy" ("Greek Theory of Tragedy: Aristotles Poetics"). The audience has to feel something significant ...

Pre-Socratic Philosophers as Compared with Later Thinkers

of fire (The New York Times, 2008). He lived during the late fifth century BC (The New York Times, 2008). The Eleatic school for i...

Questions on Aristotle and Hobbes

Hobbes believed that people, when left to their own governance, that is, without official laws and government, live in continual...

An Analysis of a Case Study Regarding a Life and Death Decision

Kamath (2007) goes through all the possible outcomes regarding this dilemma. He explains that if the operation goes forth, there a...

Civilization and Progress

Olympic Games that the Greeks initiated. On the other hand, most of the Greek citizens were obliged to labor for the purpos...

The Self Sufficient Man According to Aristotle

a bad man or above humanity; he is like the Tribeless, lawless, hearthless one,whom Homer denounces- the natural outcast is forthw...

Are Principles Chosen or Inherited?

the society and, subsequently, from the self. Sartres concept of alienation was certainly different from Marxs. Of course, Mar...

Inability to Ever Justify Cheating

to properly identify herself surely saved lives. In the hypothetical situation at hand, there is no heroism, so it would be diffic...

Aristotle and Plato on Human Nature and Love

Plato emphasizes the importance of maintaining self control in the face of eros, the importance of purging the passions of the fle...

Aristotle and Plato

theory of "seeing is believing" and that something must be touched in order to be a reality. According to Goellnitz, one s...

The Existence Of God and Descartes' Argument

simple to Descartes, so simple it needs no argument. He basically says that as long as one is thinking, one exists. To Descartes, ...

Position Argument Structuring

Ulman, 2005, PG). In order to construct a successful argument for a particular position, therefore, one has to first amass th...

Aristotle and Plato on the Soul

human being for a short span of time. The cave allegory is quite well known and has been used by many to interpret Platos philosop...

Philosophers on Religious Ethics

right or correct, or is there something about that action itself that God recognizes, and for this reason declares the action corr...

Philosophy and the Relationship Between the Body and the Mind

of that century, the French philosopher, Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) developed his metaphysical theories known as "occasionali...

Analysis of Tom Tykwer's 1999 Film Run Lola Run

as an imitation of reality, "it holds a mirror up to nature" (Durant, 1961, p. 59). Aristotle notes that human beings find pleasur...

Aristotelian Tragedy of Oedipus Rex

of tragic flow Aristotle also stipulates that the plot of a tragedy should follow a logical tragic flow. Aristotle writes that "a...

Preemptive War and Moral Considerations

This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...

Greek Orthodox Church and Philosophy

In twenty five pages this paper examines the philosophies of Aristotle, Socrates, and Plato as they influenced the origins of the...

An Exploration of The Unities

it. A well constructed plot, therefore, must neither begin nor end at haphazard, but conform to these principles" (Aristotle 7-8)....

A Sovereign Philosophical View

In twenty pages the relationship that exists between natural law ans sovereignty is examined through such philosophical perspectiv...

Political and Social Concepts of Aristotle, Thomas More, and Niccolo Machiavelli

between both extremes. The fundamental theme of "Utopia" is the determination of the best state for a commonwealth, the b...

Past and Present Political Tradition Principles

In ten pages this paper refers to the writings of Thucydides, Aristotle, and Plato in a consideration of past and present politica...

Democratic Government and Aristotle

In a paper consisting of eight pages writings such as Politics by Aristotle are used to examine the Athenian Constitution and its ...

Acquiring Virtue According to Aristotle

In four pages the ways in which Aristotle believes virtue is acquired within the perspective of prudence as discussed in his treat...

Materialism is Not Preferred Over Hylemorphism

Hylemorphism's preference over materialism in philosophy is examined from the metaphysical perspectives of Thomas Aquinas and Aris...

Character Concept According to Aristotle and J.S. Mill

In five pages this research paper discusses character as perceived by Aristotle in Nicomachean Ethics and Politics and by John Stu...

The King as Seen by Aristotle and Aquinas

The duties of a king to his subjects and their duties to him were viewed somewhat differently by St. Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle....

Do Matter, Time, and Space Coexist?

In fourteen pages this essay examines the perspectives of theorists and philosophers including Albert Einstein, Aristotle, and Ren...