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believe in absolutes. Much of what the philosopher contends seems to provide support for that view. Aristotle says, in line with t...

woman, then she was free to take back her dowry and return to her fathers house (Brians, 1998). While this sounds quite humanistic...

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 ...

behind such behavior it simply cannot be condoned, inasmuch as society cannot be defined as a scientific expression when it routin...

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,...

the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

(2002) argument is based on his experiences as first a federal prosecutor, then a trial judge, and finally a California Superior C...

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...

a body" (Aristotle), Plato illustrates his inability to see beyond mankinds mortal connection, opting instead to focus upon a deci...

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 supplemented by innate elements of the intellect (DeLouth, 2002). This theory keyed into the nature-nurture debate. Skipping ...

84). However, Socrates is willing to concede that an individual can desire an evil thing if he mistakenly first evaluates it as go...

2002, p.PG). The author explains that the things Occidentalists hate about the West are not just the ones that inspire hatred ; so...

away in the most inaccessible part of the abbeys labyrinthine library, where it remained for decades" (Essay on The Name of the Ro...

and it was on this that Plato based his philosophical oeuvre (1994). He was not only a disciple of Socrates but a diehard adversar...

education is still substantially elevated in contemporary culture. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees virtue as choice and so mora...

attempt to free themselves. What he has realized is that what they had seen all along on the wall of the cave were mere representa...

of all, it establishes his character as a nobility in his own right, as he is descended from royalty. Furthermore, Othellos simple...

instrumental in acknowledging the fact that universal law of good will can only exist if what is right for one person is also exte...