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Essays 241 - 270
like the male philosophers of the day. She was the exception. While by and large, the people saw women as having a subservient pla...
of science there are two branches which are epistemology and metaphysics (Honderich, 1995). Science makes up an important part of ...
when it is expressed as a love of virtue, and justice when it is considered as one of many virtues. For Hobbes, self-interest "ta...
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...
employee believes a child is abused, they must call the authorities. If a child has a fight in school, the latest trend is to file...
Christ. The polytheistic society of ancient Greece was already moving toward belief in a single god by the time of Plato and his ...
will is responsible for the subsequent chain of events. Therein is the problem of free will. If it in fact exists, how...
is aligned with the fact that people are alone all of the time because no one can experience what they are experiencing exactly. I...
on which the man can stand (and is therefore the crown of the virtues) because Aristotle believed that a man who demonstrated prid...
academy the first university of its type, he was able to influence minds of the next generation and proliferate his ideas and meth...
working class (Brown). Modern playwrights have expanded the conception of tragedy to include all walks of people in all circumstan...
behind such behavior it simply cannot be condoned, inasmuch as society cannot be defined as a scientific expression when it routin...
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...
the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...
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...
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...
his position by specifying that only a certain kind of agent can qualify as a moral agent, and thus subject to the ascriptions of...
agree with Aristotles ideas, and see morality as a living concept, and something that should not be tampered with. What might Aris...
support for the notion that people must obey the laws of the place in which they are born. How is this accomplished? Aristotle d...
and non-rational elements. Of the non-rational, the autonomic responses (breathing, sleeping, digesting, and reproducing) is commo...
hand, argued that people would be attracted to others and be willing to help others, if they are virtuous (Lorenz, 2003). Virtue i...
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...
and ones existence. To reach true happiness, Plato contended that people must strive for a contentment that only comes from being...
plot. There is little else that constitutes the plot other than Henry and his brilliant ability to dominate every situation. The...
serve as a compass for the character when facing great and insurmountable odds. Oedipus held staunchly to his moral codes, and whe...
believe in absolutes. Much of what the philosopher contends seems to provide support for that view. Aristotle says, in line with t...
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,...