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Responsibility According to John Stuart Mill, Immanuel Kant, and Aristotle

his position by specifying that only a certain kind of agent can qualify as a moral agent, and thus subject to the ascriptions of...

Art According to Plato and Aristotle

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...

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and Anger

Aristotles contention is that we are all prone to anger - it is one of the "passions" that makes up our...

Civilization and Progress

Olympic Games that the Greeks initiated. On the other hand, most of the Greek citizens were obliged to labor for the purpos...

Philosophies of Love and Friendship

This paper examines the philosophies of Aristotle as seen in the Nicomachean Ethics, and the views of C.S. Lewis in his work, The ...

The Golden Mean of Aristotle

In five pages the way in which Aristotle perceived the golden mean as described in Politics is discussed and also compared with Th...

Machiavelli's Beliefs on Truth as a Princely Duty

a leader? How should a prince behave? Although the motive for Machiavelli writing this piece, and the application of this work to ...

Ethics and Aristotle

The ethical theory of Aristotle is examined in this combination essay and research paper that consists of seven pages and includes...

Friendship According to Aristotle

me to the airport as an appropriate use of your resources (your time and your car), given our relationship and the circumstances i...

'Good Life' According to Socrates

interaction with the world, ourselves, and others. Our perceptual capacities are not fixed; they are not static or one-dimensiona...

Aristotle & Hume On Ethics

this sentiment and states that it is good when each individual realizes their talents and abilities to their fullest. Speaking in ...

Unique Pride Concept of Aristotle

they tend to see the world with blinders on. They may not be as sympathetic to another individual if they embrace a particular per...

Christianity and Whether or not Belief in God Has Become Less Important Than Belief in Jesus Christ

Christ. The polytheistic society of ancient Greece was already moving toward belief in a single god by the time of Plato and his ...

Perspectives of Rene Descartes and Aristotle

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

Ethics and Religion According to Augustine and Aristotle

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...

The 'Political Animal' Known as Man According to Aristotle

parallels between the relationship of the monarch to his people and the statesmen to the free citizen. Similarly, Aristotle also...

Looking at Empiricism and Rationalism

also believed in one realm. Spinoza writes: "By God, I mean a Being absolutely infinite -- that is, a substance consisting in inf...

The Concept of Forms According to Plato and Aristotle

deep down, but on the surface they are essentially chained and shackled. They are in the dark about a lot of things because they c...

Aristotle, Mill and Anakin Skywalker

the same way it does to other phenomena is related to the freedom of the will, a controversy that is still unsettled (Mill, 2003)....

Cicero & Rhetoric

role in eloquent speech. Another similarity is that Cicero, like Aristotle, believes that an effective orator is a person of high ...

Muslim Women - Oppressed

injustice" (Cudd, 2006, p. 23). This means that oppression is perpetuated through some sort of social institution or through the p...

Issues For Salespersons - Persuasion, Manipulation, Ethics

the person to do what is right for themselves (Sager, 2009). With persuasion, the decision is clearly left to the consumer and the...

An Analysis of Causation

When it comes to the beginning of the world, scientists have different theories. Yet, in order to answer questions about beginning...

Would Aristotle Label Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman as a Tragedy?

audience" (66). The reversal refers to a reversal in fortune, which Aristotle believed was classically represented in a fall from...

Is “Death of a Salesman” an Aristotelian Tragedy?

achieved little even though they are in their 30s when the play opens. Linda, Willys wife, desperately tries to hold the family ...

Human Nature as it Relates to Education and Justice According to Aristotle

In a research paper consisting of eight pages Aristotle's concept of human nature is examined along with the roles education and j...

An Application of the Politics of Aristotle

In six pages Aristotle's concepts as described in Politics are considered in terms of their contemporary applicability. Five sour...

Naturalistic Realism as Defended by Aristotle

In four pages Book I of Aristotle's Politics is used as the philosopher's 'natural' realism defense especially pertaining to the n...

The Rhetoric of Aristotle

pursuit of knowledge based on truth, Aristotles argument is that rhetoric is both persuasive and credible, and that it can be an e...

Nature as Analyzed by the Philosophy of Aristotle

In a research paper that consists of six pages Aristotle's nature philosophy as described in Physics and Metaphysics is considered...