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a larger than life figure. He is perfect. He is a leader as well as a handsome and delightful mate for Desdemona. Because Othello ...

parallels between the relationship of the monarch to his people and the statesmen to the free citizen. Similarly, Aristotle also...

with pleasure, which is why they "love the life of enjoyment" (Aristotle). Considering this stance, the next development in the m...

character of the leader nor of his ability to lead. The book is essentially about how a leader can be at his best. While it is tru...

to heart disease and diabetes (Webster, 1999). Thanks to biogenetics, in fact, researchers can grow human cells in the laboratory ...

the personality traits by which he will be governed his whole life. Habits, then, can foster a good life by directing the person t...

and bring the concept back to reality, most people know someone who gets wonderful grades in school, but does not have a lick of c...

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

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

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

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

and non-rational elements. Of the non-rational, the autonomic responses (breathing, sleeping, digesting, and reproducing) is commo...

hand, argued that people would be attracted to others and be willing to help others, if they are virtuous (Lorenz, 2003). Virtue i...

one is virtuous, and that their actions are virtuous, but that might be illusive. Can virtue be whittled down to intrinsic right o...

unchanging primary principles constitute the basis of all knowledge, and that knowledge of a thing is required in order to conduct...

the Sophoclean template, time should also be compressed and restricted, with the action of the play taking no more than one day. B...

agree with Aristotles ideas, and see morality as a living concept, and something that should not be tampered with. What might Aris...

who think that they are worthy of great things, but they are really unworthy of them, and that is pure vanity (PG). He goes on t...

and it was on this that Plato based his philosophical oeuvre (1994). He was not only a disciple of Socrates but a diehard adversar...

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

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

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

his position by specifying that only a certain kind of agent can qualify as a moral agent, and thus subject to the ascriptions of...

behind such behavior it simply cannot be condoned, inasmuch as society cannot be defined as a scientific expression when it routin...

on which the man can stand (and is therefore the crown of the virtues) because Aristotle believed that a man who demonstrated prid...

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...

of fate. In the process, our sympathy is aroused" (The tragic hero). Within this definition, tragedy also is included in that it ...

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 ...

therefore the foundation for human behavior and motivation. Expressivism as a moral philosophy is however flawed, as are m...

an imaginary podium, and is steadily building volume when Socrates interrupts.) Socrates: Oh, I see. Then the nude statuary that s...