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Essays 151 - 180
it" (Aristotle, 350 B.C.E., p. PG). Here he brings up the subject of lying, a principle in society that seems to be upheld. Certai...
and the construction of "local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained" (19...
Kantian ethical system as an impartial viewpoint: however, when one considers virtue ethics, it is evident that these come from ev...
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...
the King that the murderer of Laius (the previous King) must be brought to justice. Oedipus swears he will go on this quest to fin...
Conceptions of Virtue). Furthermore, it was Plato who argued that love was the essential ingredient in the good life because love...
84). However, Socrates is willing to concede that an individual can desire an evil thing if he mistakenly first evaluates it as go...
into two intellectual worlds. Aristotle goes on to explain: " but with regard to what happiness is they differ, and the many do n...
self-destruction. Socrates proposes many people in the simple city would not be satisfied forever with a simple way of life (Pla...
having inherent familiarity and truth, and others as alien in the sense of irrevocably different, and tempting in the sense that o...
warning regarding change: "Changes in estate also issue from this, for if, to one who governs himself with caution and patience, t...
was someone who, as Derek Walcott classified him, was ". . . the icon of Yankee values, the smell of wood smoke, the sparkle of de...
where a distinct division of power was responsible for the tapering affect that cascaded throughout each districts diversity of au...
they could utilize embryos that are not in use. Tens of thousands of embryos are stored in clinics in the United States and some a...
existing moral standard. This fact should be kept in mind in understanding that for Aristotle whether a certain kind of behavior w...
women, including approved activities, mannerism, education, sexuality and religious pursuits, as well as the extent to which there...
they have experienced the fact that the truth simply is and is not an "issue" or understanding that can be discovered. "Meno" As ...
the buying and selling of human beings. How would a Kantian analyze the ethics of slavery? How might a utilitarian, a social con...
Still, most Americans see themselves as free and voice their opinions loudly. What does this mean exactly? Is it the same freedom ...
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...
like knowledge itself, is secure. Indeed, according to Plato correct opinion is a guide to knowledge. To be correct, opinions th...
has purpose and meaning. The second profession that Folly castigates as they weave "six hundred laws together" in order to contr...
navy of the Confederate States of America. Roughly one-fifth of US naval officers resigned and joined the Southern rebels. In hi...
correct them by illustrating how values are an integral component of personhood. Indeed, it can readily be argued how the concept...
importance and children were to be guarded from superfluous information to come from for example poetry and literature. Rather, th...
2003). Restating that: sentiment is beauty and virtue; and if the sentiment we feel when we see beauty is instinctive approval, ...
commandment "thou shalt not kill", for example, are forced to re-examine their views in the light of military service in wartime, ...
who live with us and present themselves in abundance, as far as is possible. Wherefore we must keep them before us1." Here, it see...
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...
the morality Aristotle speaks of is relative. While it is not relative from one individual to another perhaps, and there is certai...