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A Historical Overview of Philosophy

This paper examines the history of philosophy and philosophers. The author discusses key figures in philosophy such as Aristotle,...

Kant v. Aristotle on Ethical Issues Involving Performing Surgery That is Unnecessary to Return an Unfit Soldier to Combat

the ability to reason about things within itself, and understand mathematics and other theoretical sciences. The other listens to ...

Astronomy and Greece

Since approximately 700 B. C., astronomy had a great deal to do with keeping time (PG). Natural periods of time were generated th...

Sophocles, Aristotle, and Socrates on Political Man and Sense of Duty

In seven pages this paper examines the conflict of man's struggles in accepting duties and responsibilities to the polis from the ...

Aristotelian Political Ethics Application

In five pages with a hypothetical situation of people who have been shipwrecked seeking to set up their own island government thei...

Differing Opinions of Aristotle and Plato

In eight pages this paper examines how the views of Aristotle and Plato on God's existence, poetics, and forms concepts differed. ...

Materialism, Hylemorphism, and Philosophy

The views of Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle are examined in this consideration of the preference for hylemorphism over materialism i...

Freedom of Choice and Evil According to Aristotle and Saint Augustine of Hippo

This paper contrasts and compares how choice and evil were conceptualized by Aristotle and Saint Augustine. Eight sources are cit...

The Comparative Contrasts of Augustine and Aristotle

In an analytical essay comprised of six pages the similarities and differences between Saint Augustine and Aristotle are examined ...

Consideration of Philosophical Moral Traditions

are the core of moral tradition as defined within the context of societal constraints. Most people associate moral tradition with...

Aristotle the Comedian?

is counterfeit and he gets into trouble for using the cash. He gives it away freely and frequently and makes himself appear quite ...

Aristotle and Plato on the Soul

human being for a short span of time. The cave allegory is quite well known and has been used by many to interpret Platos philosop...

Position Argument Structuring

Ulman, 2005, PG). In order to construct a successful argument for a particular position, therefore, one has to first amass th...

Politics and Imaginary Dialogues

In ten pages this tutorial paper imagines a lively dialogue between political philosophers including St. Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle...

Analysis of Tom Tykwer's 1999 Film Run Lola Run

as an imitation of reality, "it holds a mirror up to nature" (Durant, 1961, p. 59). Aristotle notes that human beings find pleasur...

Preemptive War and Moral Considerations

This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...

Aristotle and Sebastian de Grazia on Leisure

In fact, he suggests that work is done for the "sake of leisure" (267). More completely, Aristotle believed that it is important ...

The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

womens lives were a measurement in comparison to these male priorities and values. The life of a woman, in other words, was that ...

Scientific Knowledge Foundations

and bring the concept back to reality, most people know someone who gets wonderful grades in school, but does not have a lick of c...

Narrative Self Concepts of Paul Ricoeur

Marcel, Heidegger, Aristotle and Kant(Thompson 1981). Ricoeur believes that in order to get to the bottom line, which is to know o...

Ethics and Biogenetics

to heart disease and diabetes (Webster, 1999). Thanks to biogenetics, in fact, researchers can grow human cells in the laboratory ...

Comparative Analysis of Aristotle and Plato's Philosophies

that there is just one objective right way of doing things and on the other hand, there are many truths, is an enormous difference...

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...

Egoism, Altruism, and Moral Development

the personality traits by which he will be governed his whole life. Habits, then, can foster a good life by directing the person t...

Aristotle and Epicurus Debate on Pleasure and Politics

of politics, it is important to provide contemporary and recognizable examples. With that in mind, one can say that politics has n...

Aristotle and Plato on Knowledge

subject of forms. While Plato held a dual realms theory, Aristotle saw form and matter as existing in the same realm. In discussi...

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...

Aristotelian Tragedy of Oedipus Rex

of tragic flow Aristotle also stipulates that the plot of a tragedy should follow a logical tragic flow. Aristotle writes that "a...

Inability to Ever Justify Cheating

to properly identify herself surely saved lives. In the hypothetical situation at hand, there is no heroism, so it would be diffic...

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 ...