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Essays 541 - 570
away in the most inaccessible part of the abbeys labyrinthine library, where it remained for decades" (Essay on The Name of the Ro...
a body" (Aristotle), Plato illustrates his inability to see beyond mankinds mortal connection, opting instead to focus upon a deci...
is supplemented by innate elements of the intellect (DeLouth, 2002). This theory keyed into the nature-nurture debate. Skipping ...
theory is brought forth numerous times throughout Aristotles well-read and well-quoted Nichomachean Ethics. Aristotles vie...
a bad man or above humanity; he is like the Tribeless, lawless, hearthless one,whom Homer denounces- the natural outcast is forthw...
the society and, subsequently, from the self. Sartres concept of alienation was certainly different from Marxs. Of course, Mar...
to properly identify herself surely saved lives. In the hypothetical situation at hand, there is no heroism, so it would be diffic...
Olympic Games that the Greeks initiated. On the other hand, most of the Greek citizens were obliged to labor for the purpos...
Plato emphasizes the importance of maintaining self control in the face of eros, the importance of purging the passions of the fle...
theory of "seeing is believing" and that something must be touched in order to be a reality. According to Goellnitz, one s...
simple to Descartes, so simple it needs no argument. He basically says that as long as one is thinking, one exists. To Descartes, ...
right or correct, or is there something about that action itself that God recognizes, and for this reason declares the action corr...
of that century, the French philosopher, Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) developed his metaphysical theories known as "occasionali...
audience feel watching a tragedy" ("Greek Theory of Tragedy: Aristotles Poetics"). The audience has to feel something significant ...
of fire (The New York Times, 2008). He lived during the late fifth century BC (The New York Times, 2008). The Eleatic school for i...
Despite her poor reception by those that disagree with her philosophically, Costello makes many valid points about animal rights. ...
tumbles into despair. All the while, he treats his wife and sons quite negatively. This is not an uncommon scenario. A man has tro...
"...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...
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...
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...
what is not. Descartes method of systematic doubt is to "reject as if absolutely false anything as to which I could imagine t...
me to the airport as an appropriate use of your resources (your time and your car), given our relationship and the circumstances i...
like the male philosophers of the day. She was the exception. While by and large, the people saw women as having a subservient pla...
Christ. The polytheistic society of ancient Greece was already moving toward belief in a single god by the time of Plato and his ...
This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...
In fact, he suggests that work is done for the "sake of leisure" (267). More completely, Aristotle believed that it is important ...
of tragic flow Aristotle also stipulates that the plot of a tragedy should follow a logical tragic flow. Aristotle writes that "a...
as an imitation of reality, "it holds a mirror up to nature" (Durant, 1961, p. 59). Aristotle notes that human beings find pleasur...
major argument in favor of poetry; that it was an educational tool that could be used in the instruction of moral values. Sidne...
plague wreaks death and despair onto the Theban people, Oedipus pride motivates him to make a deal whereby he reveals the identity...