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Arthur Miller's Tragedy Death of a Salesman

dramatic action by the end of the play (cathartic release), and falls into two parts comprising a complication and a d?nouement(El...

Ancient Legal Codes

woman, then she was free to take back her dowry and return to her fathers house (Brians, 1998). While this sounds quite humanistic...

Happiness and Virtue According to Aristotle and Plato

and ones existence. To reach true happiness, Plato contended that people must strive for a contentment that only comes from being...

Shakespeare's Henry V as a Virtuous Hero

plot. There is little else that constitutes the plot other than Henry and his brilliant ability to dominate every situation. The...

Evaluation of an Article on Plato's Republic and Communist Concepts

is a case for communism at least for the lower classes. The supporting premises for that conclusion have already been noted and ge...

Aristotle and Telos

were to consider what is most important in society, most would point to causation. One tries to get to the cause of ones drinking,...

Ethics and Religion According to Augustine and Aristotle

not make up an ethical life. Rather, he based his ideas on his own ideas concerning reason, but he did so within the context of hi...

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, ...

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...

The Mean and Experience in Aristotle

works are studied to this day. They are unusually clear; difficulty in understanding may come from inept translations. This paper ...

Miller's Death of a Salesman

tumbles into despair. All the while, he treats his wife and sons quite negatively. This is not an uncommon scenario. A man has tro...

Elizabeth Costello's Views on Animal Rights

Despite her poor reception by those that disagree with her philosophically, Costello makes many valid points about animal rights. ...

Character and Good Reasoning

in the right way. In order to do this, however, one must be able to determine, using ones reason, what those right ways and right ...

Aristotle, Tragedy, and Oedipus Rex

serve as a compass for the character when facing great and insurmountable odds. Oedipus held staunchly to his moral codes, and whe...

Perspectives of Rene Descartes and Aristotle

believe in absolutes. Much of what the philosopher contends seems to provide support for that view. Aristotle says, in line with t...

Political Philosophy of Greece and Athens

much as they are in todays society. Therefore, the philosophies and laws created chaos, but democracy was enjoyed as a fact of ex...

Knowledge and the Views of Plato and Aristotle

In seven pages the philosophical arguments by Plato and Aristotle regarding knowledge involves discussion of its source, acquisiti...

Freedom of Choice and Evil According to Aristotle and Saint Augustine of Hippo

This paper contrasts and compares how choice and evil were conceptualized by Aristotle and Saint Augustine. Eight sources are cit...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Philosophical Similarities of Aristotle, Plato, and Socrates

(Saxonhouse, 1998). This is something thought not to lead to violence, but rather to a profound gentleness (Saxonhouse, 1998). In ...

Virtue: A Comparison of the Views of Aristotle and Confucius

and Aristotle are philosophers who discuss virtue. Yet, Yu (1998) claims that when it comes to virtue, neither Aristotle or Confu...

Comparing the Philosophies of Buddhism and Aristotle

by way of recognition toward such shortcomings that humanity could overcome this "profound error" (Nehamas, 1994, p. 40), diligent...

Plato and Aristotle on Good

idea that concepts and forms had to begin somewhere. How does one know that they are looking at a pink, or a red, or a blue item? ...