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Essays 301 - 330
who live with us and present themselves in abundance, as far as is possible. Wherefore we must keep them before us1." Here, it see...
commandment "thou shalt not kill", for example, are forced to re-examine their views in the light of military service in wartime, ...
2003). Restating that: sentiment is beauty and virtue; and if the sentiment we feel when we see beauty is instinctive approval, ...
correct them by illustrating how values are an integral component of personhood. Indeed, it can readily be argued how the concept...
lock of her hair, the background to the event imbues it with a completely disproportionate quality of the melodramatic. Clarissa, ...
in Pojmans work he illustrates how people behave a particular way. "If someone treats us to dinner, gives us a present, teaches us...
way to be part of the community.3 Each person had a role - the host would extend a graceful welcome to the guest and the guest wou...
reversals of fortune, illness, accidents and other events which contribute to their unhappiness. At the same time, the "evil m...
shocked when driving a short distance from the slums of inner cities to the world of wealthy suburbs?" But it is not...
what one wants, and visualizing it, that one will eventually be free from the gnawing desire. This is true either through attainme...
importance and children were to be guarded from superfluous information to come from for example poetry and literature. Rather, th...
- he refuses to take nourishment or leave his place of business. Instead of taking a sympathetic view of his employee, the narrat...
philosopher, would aid in curtailing discord while broadening the trust that must exist between peoples. Using the Myth of ...
physical body to be sold, for the enjoyment of others, is tantamount to transforming the human body into a physical object. Kant...
also indicates that he would much rather be known as a man who may have been ridiculous at times perhaps, or misunderstood, but th...
of his accomplishments, many of which are successful. One of the problems in the writings of a man outlining his own accomplishme...
of the marketplace by big business (Bittlingmayer, 2002). Catanzaro (2000) accuses President Richard Nixon of using antitrust law ...
well as] hard physical work and unhealthy lifestyle" and most donors are sent home after only five days (Tomiuc, 2003). While the ...
narrator restores the sight of the Greek love god Cupid, and he subsequently flees (Donaldson 154): "And (withal) I did untie / Ev...
and ones existence. To reach true happiness, Plato contended that people must strive for a contentment that only comes from being...
plot. There is little else that constitutes the plot other than Henry and his brilliant ability to dominate every situation. The...
it" (Aristotle, 350 B.C.E., p. PG). Here he brings up the subject of lying, a principle in society that seems to be upheld. Certai...
and the construction of "local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained" (19...
both politically as well as personally. For Brutus, virtue was a trait that could never be compromised for it was synonymous with...
are eventually reintroduced to the "regular" world and everyone finds out that John was born of Linda (his mother) and they become...
2004). John Stuart Mills, in his book Utilitarianism, further stated that not all forms of pleasure were of equal value (Free-Defi...
spoke of virtue as something equated with wisdom. Yet he also "spoke more expansively of justice, courage, temperance, magnificenc...
and deficiency (McCartt, 2003). Moral virtue also follows this pattern, although in this regard Aristotle refers to it as the "Go...
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...