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to heart disease and diabetes (Webster, 1999). Thanks to biogenetics, in fact, researchers can grow human cells in the laboratory ...
In five pages the concepts of luck and chance are defined, described, and then examined from an Aristotelian perspective with the ...
hand, argued that people would be attracted to others and be willing to help others, if they are virtuous (Lorenz, 2003). Virtue i...
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...
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...
one is virtuous, and that their actions are virtuous, but that might be illusive. Can virtue be whittled down to intrinsic right o...
(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...
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...
education is still substantially elevated in contemporary culture. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees virtue as choice and so mora...
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...
and it was on this that Plato based his philosophical oeuvre (1994). He was not only a disciple of Socrates but a diehard adversar...
just that mapping of reality that corresponds to the way things are" (25). Of course, many great philosophers, such as Descartes, ...
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...
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,...
behind such behavior it simply cannot be condoned, inasmuch as society cannot be defined as a scientific expression when it routin...
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...
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...
the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal 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...
woman, then she was free to take back her dowry and return to her fathers house (Brians, 1998). While this sounds quite humanistic...
dramatic action by the end of the play (cathartic release), and falls into two parts comprising a complication and a d?nouement(El...
in the right way. In order to do this, however, one must be able to determine, using ones reason, what those right ways and right ...
plot. There is little else that constitutes the plot other than Henry and his brilliant ability to dominate every situation. The...