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In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the philosophies of Socrates and Aristotle with virtue concepts being the primary ...
distinguishes between the activities of the practical and intellectual virtues, with the activities of political virtue having a s...
will is responsible for the subsequent chain of events. Therein is the problem of free will. If it in fact exists, how...
academy the first university of its type, he was able to influence minds of the next generation and proliferate his ideas and meth...
Aristotles concrete, scientific theories are more relevant than Platos deductive and abstract ideology. Aristotle believed...
major argument in favor of poetry; that it was an educational tool that could be used in the instruction of moral values. Sidne...
This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...
of science there are two branches which are epistemology and metaphysics (Honderich, 1995). Science makes up an important part of ...
In ten pages this tutorial paper imagines a lively dialogue between political philosophers including St. Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle...
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...
Ulman, 2005, PG). In order to construct a successful argument for a particular position, therefore, one has to first amass th...
who will eventually hold office and decide what to pursue in respect to issues like abortion, stem cell research and capital punis...
that is permanent and immutable. It is this world that is more real; the world of change is merely an imperfect image of this worl...
and ones existence. To reach true happiness, Plato contended that people must strive for a contentment that only comes from being...
for, but for which there were certainly problems. People too easily give up on it. In his work entitled The History of the Pelopon...
can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees it as symbolic of humans o...
subject of forms. While Plato held a dual realms theory, Aristotle saw form and matter as existing in the same realm. In discussi...
(2002) argument is based on his experiences as first a federal prosecutor, then a trial judge, and finally a California Superior C...
top the list. The Catholic Church is often quoted as having said, "Give me a child until he is seven and he will always be Catholi...
things that are not concrete, but ideas. This type of thinking, the student could state, however, really puts a hold on empirical ...
the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...
wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves social needs. A number of philosophers have contributed to the debate which...
right or correct, or is there something about that action itself that God recognizes, and for this reason declares the action corr...
Plato emphasizes the importance of maintaining self control in the face of eros, the importance of purging the passions of the fle...
theory of "seeing is believing" and that something must be touched in order to be a reality. According to Goellnitz, one s...
education is still substantially elevated in contemporary culture. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees virtue as choice and so mora...
for example, would exist even if there were no human beings there to see it, but not that colour was an independent spiritual form...
a body" (Aristotle), Plato illustrates his inability to see beyond mankinds mortal connection, opting instead to focus upon a deci...
84). However, Socrates is willing to concede that an individual can desire an evil thing if he mistakenly first evaluates it as go...
is supplemented by innate elements of the intellect (DeLouth, 2002). This theory keyed into the nature-nurture debate. Skipping ...