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Overview of the Honesty Concept

examine the answer before given. Will the effects of the honesty truly hurt the other individual? Before answering such a question...

Slave Narratives and Virtue in the Works of Harriet Ann Jacobs and Harriet Wilson

In 10 pages this paper discusses how virtue is depicted in the slave narratives Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet A...

Virtuous Act of Disobedience

In six pages the virtues of disobedience are celebrated with an incorporation of the essay 'Disobedience as a Psychological and Mo...

Elenchos According to Socrates

always employs the dialogue not only as a didactic device, but as a technique for the actual discovery of opinions amongst men, th...

Argumentative Essay on Actions Motivated by Virtue Ethics

In five pages the motivating force represented by virtue ethics regarding actions is the focus of this argumentative essay. Five ...

Virtue in Plato's Protagoras and Meno

In five pages Plato considers whether or not virtue is a concept that can be taught in Protagoras and Meno. Twelve sources are ci...

'Sleeping Beauty' Fairytale and Psychoanalysis

reach the real world, they are rudely awakened to the fact that life is nothing like it had been portrayed in the well-worn fairy ...

Humanity's Virtue in The Puppet Masters by Robert Heinlein

In five pages this paper examines this novel within the context of humanity's virtue as it emerges from conflicts of freedom v. co...

Soul, Piety, Virtue, and Socrates' Philosophy

In seven pages this paper discuses Socrates' philosophy in an overview that includes his soul concept, what constitutes 'true' kno...

Virtue and Vice According to Aristotle

code will represent, and who is to say that all cultures and all communities must follow it? Clearly, defining ethics is to defin...

Witness Film and Ethics

In seven pages this paper applies Christine Sommers' edited text Vice and Virtue to an analysis of the ethics represented in the f...

Philosophy of Good and Evil

In seven pages this research paper discusses how the philosophy of good and evil is analyzed in Christina Sommers' edited essay co...

Vice and Virtue Internal Debate in Tom Jones by Henry Fielding

agree that the most significant debate Jones had with himself concerning virtue and vice was when he decided to marry Sophia, one ...

MacIntyre's Perspectives on Habermas, Foucault, Nietzsche, and Aristotle

In seven pages MacIntyre's perspectives on these men and their philosophies are discussed as presented in After Virtue. Four sour...

'The Sovereign Beauty' by Edmund Spenser

In six pages this explication of Spenser's poem argues that it serves as a celebration of Queen and country in terms of 'virtue' a...

Virtue, Justice, and the Common Good According to St. Thomas Aquinas

In seven pages this paper discusses how this preeminent religious philosopher defined virtue, justice, and the common good. One s...

Literature and Happiness Through Virtue

In five pages this paper discusses how happiness can be achieved through virtue as illustrated in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibil...

Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle on Virtue

subdivided into passions and reason (Yu 323). So, too, was his moral character, which explained how man could exist as both a soc...

Pride and Prejudice and its Aristotelian Concepts

points out that because magnanimous people have a proper set of values they frequently appear to have a "lofty detachment" to the ...

Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding

In three pages this paper examines how a good man's virtues are represented in the novel by Abraham Adams and Joseph Andrews. Two...

'The Mean' Meaning According to Aristotle

In five pages Aristotle's concept of 'the mean' is discussed in terms of a balanced universe comprised fo form and matter and the ...

God, Knowledge, Wisdom, and Virtue According to Descartes and Aristotle

In nine pages specific questions are answered regarding Aristotle's position on happiness, virtue, knowledge, and wisdom, and then...

US Moral Crisis According to William Bennett, Bob Avakian, and Jim Wallis

the "processes" or causes of moral decay in the United States. Jim Wallis "The Soul of Politics" presents his view that the signs...

Virtue and Meno by Plato

In six pages this paper discusses virtue and whether or not it is possible to teach in a consideration of the dialogue between Men...

Civil War Naval History

navy of the Confederate States of America. Roughly one-fifth of US naval officers resigned and joined the Southern rebels. In hi...

Erasmus/Praise of Folly

has purpose and meaning. The second profession that Folly castigates as they weave "six hundred laws together" in order to contr...

Plato: Law, War, Peace and Virtue in the "Laws"

suggest that both love and hate can be taught (Plato). We can further extrapolate from that to conclude that if a nation is in har...

Aristotle and the Role of Moral Education

Aristotle manages to come up with a provisional definition (Book II, Ch. 6, 1107a): Aret? is a state or condition of soul that is ...

Education, Arete or Virtue, and Plato

like knowledge itself, is secure. Indeed, according to Plato correct opinion is a guide to knowledge. To be correct, opinions th...

Gaman/A Japanese Cultural Concept

allow the young Emperor, age 8, to fall into the hands of Genji warriors, a "Nun of the Second Rank," instructs the boy to make h...