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Essays 211 - 240
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, ...
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...
is not that everyone just does what they think is right or what society tells them is right, but they sense that something good co...
who live with us and present themselves in abundance, as far as is possible. Wherefore we must keep them before us1." Here, it see...
has probably viewed this film, this writer/tutor has not. Also, the Paper Store charges a considerable fee for watching a film in ...
in order to insure passage to the underworld. The Underworld in this mythology was not a particularly happy place; it was a gloomy...
adherence to well-established procedures. Within that framework is room for individual development and performance, but always wit...
virtue is something that people can live with on a daily basis. Virtue is equated with doing the right thing in the present. Ideal...
tries to tell the girl that her physical problems are minor and not noticeable-when the girl has her leg in a brace (Williams). Th...
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...
importance and children were to be guarded from superfluous information to come from for example poetry and literature. Rather, th...
what one wants, and visualizing it, that one will eventually be free from the gnawing desire. This is true either through attainme...
- 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 ...
also indicates that he would much rather be known as a man who may have been ridiculous at times perhaps, or misunderstood, but th...
physical body to be sold, for the enjoyment of others, is tantamount to transforming the human body into a physical object. Kant...
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 ...
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...
suggest that both love and hate can be taught (Plato). We can further extrapolate from that to conclude that if a nation is in har...
Aristotle manages to come up with a provisional definition (Book II, Ch. 6, 1107a): Aret? is a state or condition of soul that is ...
has purpose and meaning. The second profession that Folly castigates as they weave "six hundred laws together" in order to contr...
like knowledge itself, is secure. Indeed, according to Plato correct opinion is a guide to knowledge. To be correct, opinions th...
allow the young Emperor, age 8, to fall into the hands of Genji warriors, a "Nun of the Second Rank," instructs the boy to make h...
the morality Aristotle speaks of is relative. While it is not relative from one individual to another perhaps, and there is certai...