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Literary Analysis of 'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell

art is directed at a woman with whom he so desires to have a romantic affair. In his attempts to persuade her to consent, he pain...

Modern Life Issues and Theories of Morality

In ten pages this report discusses how moral theories address contemporary life issues with such ethical concepts as virtue, care,...

Justice Rules and David Hume

In five pages this report assesses David Hume's attitudes regarding jusice and examines why he labels it as an artificial virtue b...

Objectivism versus Spirituality in Works by Ayn Rand and Simone Weil

In five pages this paper contrasts the differences between these two philosophies as represented in the texts The Virtue of Selfis...

Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding

In three pages this paper examines how a good man's virtues are represented in the novel by Abraham Adams and Joseph Andrews. Two...

Pride and Prejudice and its Aristotelian Concepts

points out that because magnanimous people have a proper set of values they frequently appear to have a "lofty detachment" to the ...

Literature and Happiness Through Virtue

In five pages this paper discusses how happiness can be achieved through virtue as illustrated in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibil...

Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle on Virtue

subdivided into passions and reason (Yu 323). So, too, was his moral character, which explained how man could exist as both a soc...

Virtue, Justice, and the Common Good According to St. Thomas Aquinas

In seven pages this paper discusses how this preeminent religious philosopher defined virtue, justice, and the common good. One s...

Virtue and Meno by Plato

In six pages this paper discusses virtue and whether or not it is possible to teach in a consideration of the dialogue between Men...

'The Mean' Meaning According to Aristotle

In five pages Aristotle's concept of 'the mean' is discussed in terms of a balanced universe comprised fo form and matter and the ...

MacIntyre's Perspectives on Habermas, Foucault, Nietzsche, and Aristotle

In seven pages MacIntyre's perspectives on these men and their philosophies are discussed as presented in After Virtue. Four sour...

'The Sovereign Beauty' by Edmund Spenser

In six pages this explication of Spenser's poem argues that it serves as a celebration of Queen and country in terms of 'virtue' a...

Virtue and Vice According to Aristotle

code will represent, and who is to say that all cultures and all communities must follow it? Clearly, defining ethics is to defin...

Witness Film and Ethics

In seven pages this paper applies Christine Sommers' edited text Vice and Virtue to an analysis of the ethics represented in the f...

Philosophy of Good and Evil

In seven pages this research paper discusses how the philosophy of good and evil is analyzed in Christina Sommers' edited essay co...

Vice and Virtue Internal Debate in Tom Jones by Henry Fielding

agree that the most significant debate Jones had with himself concerning virtue and vice was when he decided to marry Sophia, one ...

Ancient Greece and Changing Attitudes Regarding Virtue

The ways in which male and female virtue changed in terms of the attitudes of Ancient Greece are examined in 6 pages in a consider...

Soul, Piety, Virtue, and Socrates' Philosophy

In seven pages this paper discuses Socrates' philosophy in an overview that includes his soul concept, what constitutes 'true' kno...

Examination of Courtly Love

where a distinct division of power was responsible for the tapering affect that cascaded throughout each districts diversity of au...

Moral Defects and Virtues

be beneficial in the long run. Do the ends justify the means? Can virtue be whittled down to intrinsic right or wrong, or what one...

2 Essays in Christina and Fred Sommers' Vice and Virtue in Everyday Life

women, including approved activities, mannerism, education, sexuality and religious pursuits, as well as the extent to which there...

Meno and Plato's Arguments

they have experienced the fact that the truth simply is and is not an "issue" or understanding that can be discovered. "Meno" As ...

Values, Virtues, and the Poetry of Robert Frost

was someone who, as Derek Walcott classified him, was ". . . the icon of Yankee values, the smell of wood smoke, the sparkle of de...

Sentiment and Reason According to Adam Smith and Aristotle

existing moral standard. This fact should be kept in mind in understanding that for Aristotle whether a certain kind of behavior w...

Origins of Moral Virtue

as it applies to moral virtue is attempting to successfully pinpoint a single yet comprehensive connotation to its concept; howeve...

Plato's Republic and Five Essay Questions

self-destruction. Socrates proposes many people in the simple city would not be satisfied forever with a simple way of life (Pla...

Moral Virtues of Benjamin Franklin

chastity and humility. He listed them subjectively, in what he regarded as their order of importance. But out of all these lauda...

Concepts of Contemporary Citizenship and Political Virtue as Viewed by Aristotle

the morality Aristotle speaks of is relative. While it is not relative from one individual to another perhaps, and there is certai...

Virtue in Utopia by Sir Thomas More

until the Cardinal spoke, indicating that he took Hythlodays suggests seriously. Then the entire company began to voice general ap...