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Essays 781 - 810
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 ...
However, Allen also makes the point that Platos attitude was at least partially due to his respect and fear of the powers of art o...
hand, argued that people would be attracted to others and be willing to help others, if they are virtuous (Lorenz, 2003). Virtue i...
is a case for communism at least for the lower classes. The supporting premises for that conclusion have already been noted and ge...
were to consider what is most important in society, most would point to causation. One tries to get to the cause of ones drinking,...
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...
behind such behavior it simply cannot be condoned, inasmuch as society cannot be defined as a scientific expression when it routin...
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...
one is virtuous, and that their actions are virtuous, but that might be illusive. Can virtue be whittled down to intrinsic right o...
his position by specifying that only a certain kind of agent can qualify as a moral agent, and thus subject to the ascriptions of...
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...
the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...
agree with Aristotles ideas, and see morality as a living concept, and something that should not be tampered with. What might Aris...
wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves social needs. A number of philosophers have contributed to the debate which...
support for the notion that people must obey the laws of the place in which they are born. How is this accomplished? Aristotle d...
and non-rational elements. Of the non-rational, the autonomic responses (breathing, sleeping, digesting, and reproducing) is commo...
who live with us and present themselves in abundance, as far as is possible. Wherefore we must keep them before us1." Here, it see...
like the male philosophers of the day. She was the exception. While by and large, the people saw women as having a subservient pla...
of science there are two branches which are epistemology and metaphysics (Honderich, 1995). Science makes up an important part of ...
of fate. In the process, our sympathy is aroused" (The tragic hero). Within this definition, tragedy also is included in that it ...
on which the man can stand (and is therefore the crown of the virtues) because Aristotle believed that a man who demonstrated prid...
when it is expressed as a love of virtue, and justice when it is considered as one of many virtues. For Hobbes, self-interest "ta...
they tend to see the world with blinders on. They may not be as sympathetic to another individual if they embrace a particular per...
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...
Christ. The polytheistic society of ancient Greece was already moving toward belief in a single god by the time of Plato and his ...
employee believes a child is abused, they must call the authorities. If a child has a fight in school, the latest trend is to file...
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...
"...no man will benefit from his profession unless he is paid as well" (Plato, 2003, p.28). One can easily see that Plato does not...