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be regarded as involuntary because it is not externally rooted in another person; but it is irrational and therefore not represent...

it mean for a person to be functioning well-or in this case, to be functioning to his highest capability? Its more than acquiring...

In five pages this essay contrasts and compares the views of these ancient philosophers regarding the patience virtue. There are ...

Aristotles concrete, scientific theories are more relevant than Platos deductive and abstract ideology. Aristotle believed...

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

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the philosophies of Socrates and Aristotle with virtue concepts being the primary ...

and we would be thinking about the idea of "why" something is the way it is. Another way to look at the thoughts of Aristotle is t...

distinguishes between the activities of the practical and intellectual virtues, with the activities of political virtue having a s...

Aristotle. The sky is of course something that perhaps is significant in esoteric matters. After all, the sky is quite provocativ...

the physical in a dramatic and practical way. While Aristotle saw the heart as just a physical organ, he had an idea that seemed t...

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

In six pages this research paper considers how the death concept was applied to the scheme of life through the classical Greek phi...

it is not necessary that everybody feel compelled or obligated to do so. Moral Communitarianism The philosophy and scholarship of...

what one wants, and visualizing it, that one will eventually be free from the gnawing desire. This is true either through attainme...

going to use A to determine B. He has caught himself in a direct contradiction. Al-Ghazali wandered for ten years, meditating a...

one else, ever); that he has the strength of character to keep the trust placed in him; and that he will deal kindly and justly wi...

This paper examines the philosophies of friendship as portrayed by Epicurus and Aristotle. The author compares and contrasts the ...

This paper discusses Richard Kraut's commentary on the intellectual elitism of Aristotle an defines virtue in this overview of Ari...

In six pages this report considers the concept of justice as perceived by philosophers John Stuart Mill and Aristotle. Four sourc...

First, is that the play should be of serious magnitude, and have an impact on many, many people (McClelland, 2001). The second fac...

and subvert purpose in ways deemed dysfunctional. The nature of the slave is slavish and subservience the natural consequence. A...

In a paper consisting of seven pages the concept of marriage rooted in friendship is a view shared by Barbara Whitehead and Aristo...

was also Aristotle who determined that in a beehive there was a particular leader, though he called it a "king" (Aristotle, 2006)....

possibly think?" (I.3). As this indicates, Aristotles perspective is grounded in observation and reality. He sees the mind as intr...

84). However, Socrates is willing to concede that an individual can desire an evil thing if he mistakenly first evaluates it as go...

This essay addresses issues in Aristotle's "The Nicomachean Ethics" and how he perceives what is good and virtuous and the relatio...

define it. Is it the ability to express ones opinion without fear of reprisals? Or is it the freedom to avoid expressing an opinio...

or values. It is by understanding leadership and its influences that the way leadership may be encouraged and developed in the con...

investment may be assessed to determine which would have the highest and the lowest opportunity cost, so that Guillermo may maximi...

This essay pertains to FDR's "Four Freedoms" speech, which was delivered as the State of the Union address in January of 1941. The...