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Essays 511 - 540
for example, would exist even if there were no human beings there to see it, but not that colour was an independent spiritual form...
as the original Greek legal process aspired to achieve such status, it can readily be said that its integrity has been severely co...
education is still substantially elevated in contemporary culture. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees virtue as choice and so mora...
and non-rational elements. Of the non-rational, the autonomic responses (breathing, sleeping, digesting, and reproducing) is commo...
support for the notion that people must obey the laws of the place in which they are born. How is this accomplished? Aristotle d...
wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves social needs. A number of philosophers have contributed to the debate which...
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...
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 ...
(2002) argument is based on his experiences as first a federal prosecutor, then a trial judge, and finally a California Superior C...
tragedy; there may be without character" (Aristotle Poetics Part VI). At this point Aristotle indicates that more often than not p...
rich this indicates why he sees a democracy as a deviant state as it is argued that the poor will be the dominant influence on the...
idea that concepts and forms had to begin somewhere. How does one know that they are looking at a pink, or a red, or a blue item? ...
just that mapping of reality that corresponds to the way things are" (25). Of course, many great philosophers, such as Descartes, ...
discover) the truth or falsity of propositions about past and present events, propositions about the future seem problematic. If a...
happens, people fail to achieve happiness and feel only increased levels of stress (Morris, 1997). If businesses incorporated Ar...
Aristotle also proposed that the "idea of a perfect statue" is already in the marble and that the marble itself seeks to realize ...
and deficiency (McCartt, 2003). Moral virtue also follows this pattern, although in this regard Aristotle refers to it as the "Go...
(Saxonhouse, 1998). This is something thought not to lead to violence, but rather to a profound gentleness (Saxonhouse, 1998). In ...
correct them by illustrating how values are an integral component of personhood. Indeed, it can readily be argued how the concept...
by way of recognition toward such shortcomings that humanity could overcome this "profound error" (Nehamas, 1994, p. 40), diligent...
in which truth is believed to derive chiefly from experience" (Nichols, 2003, p. 20). In order to explore his general theory, it p...
who waste time believing or fearing that which is untrue could not possibly be calm or contemplative; as such, they could change t...
In five pages the concepts of luck and chance are defined, described, and then examined from an Aristotelian perspective with the ...
have been utilized in both historical and contemporary politics: (a) The use of diplomacy and the formation of coalitions; (b) Vio...
In five pages virtues and their relativity are debated by Aristotelian philosophy and an argument by Martha Nussbaum featured in ...
In eight pages the philosophies of these great ancient Greek thinkers on these topics are examined with terms including peitho, ag...
of the United States. Without the philosophies of those that lived in the centuries prior to the U.S. Declaration of Independence...
influential thinkers of the ancient age. Despite their obvious inter-related lives, they still had significantly differing opinio...