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In fact, he suggests that work is done for the "sake of leisure" (267). More completely, Aristotle believed that it is important ...
as an imitation of reality, "it holds a mirror up to nature" (Durant, 1961, p. 59). Aristotle notes that human beings find pleasur...
is counterfeit and he gets into trouble for using the cash. He gives it away freely and frequently and makes himself appear quite ...
like the male philosophers of the day. She was the exception. While by and large, the people saw women as having a subservient pla...
role in eloquent speech. Another similarity is that Cicero, like Aristotle, believes that an effective orator is a person of high ...
the primary location where policy is derived. There are myriad ethical considerations in the daily world of business, and each on...
this sentiment and states that it is good when each individual realizes their talents and abilities to their fullest. Speaking in ...
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...
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...
what is not. Descartes method of systematic doubt is to "reject as if absolutely false anything as to which I could imagine t...
Olympic Games that the Greeks initiated. On the other hand, most of the Greek citizens were obliged to labor for the purpos...
to properly identify herself surely saved lives. In the hypothetical situation at hand, there is no heroism, so it would be diffic...
simple to Descartes, so simple it needs no argument. He basically says that as long as one is thinking, one exists. To Descartes, ...
the society and, subsequently, from the self. Sartres concept of alienation was certainly different from Marxs. Of course, Mar...
the same way it does to other phenomena is related to the freedom of the will, a controversy that is still unsettled (Mill, 2003)....
and it was on this that Plato based his philosophical oeuvre (1994). He was not only a disciple of Socrates but a diehard adversar...
hand, argued that people would be attracted to others and be willing to help others, if they are virtuous (Lorenz, 2003). Virtue i...
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...
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...
behind such behavior it simply cannot be condoned, inasmuch as society cannot be defined as a scientific expression when it routin...
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...
agree with Aristotles ideas, and see morality as a living concept, and something that should not be tampered with. What might Aris...
one is virtuous, and that their actions are virtuous, but that might be illusive. Can virtue be whittled down to intrinsic right o...
of that century, the French philosopher, Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) developed his metaphysical theories known as "occasionali...
of all, it establishes his character as a nobility in his own right, as he is descended from royalty. Furthermore, Othellos simple...
away in the most inaccessible part of the abbeys labyrinthine library, where it remained for decades" (Essay on The Name of the Ro...
in the right way. In order to do this, however, one must be able to determine, using ones reason, what those right ways and right ...
therefore the foundation for human behavior and motivation. Expressivism as a moral philosophy is however flawed, as are m...