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Essays 481 - 510

Art According to Plato and Aristotle

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...

Comparative Analysis of Virtue and Vice

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...

Comparing Poetry Attitudes of Aristotle and Plato

things that are not concrete, but ideas. This type of thinking, the student could state, however, really puts a hold on empirical ...

Gregg Toland's Contributions the Film Citizen Kane

a woman from his past perhaps. But, those familiar with the film know better. This opening scene is also one, instilled by the w...

Virtue Defined

hand, argued that people would be attracted to others and be willing to help others, if they are virtuous (Lorenz, 2003). Virtue i...

Organizational Design, Management Knowledge, and the Contributions of Contingency Thinking

the ability to consider the way things may be different and then to look at the way this will impact on the company and then solve...

Occidentalism Article by Margalit and Burma and Global Hatred of Western Culture

2002, p.PG). The author explains that the things Occidentalists hate about the West are not just the ones that inspire hatred ; so...

Cinematic Portrayal of Greek Virtue and Philosophers

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

History and Testing Measures of Intelligence Theory

is supplemented by innate elements of the intellect (DeLouth, 2002). This theory keyed into the nature-nurture debate. Skipping ...

Literature and Laughter

away in the most inaccessible part of the abbeys labyrinthine library, where it remained for decades" (Essay on The Name of the Ro...

Symbolism and Theme of Plato's Allegory of the Cave

attempt to free themselves. What he has realized is that what they had seen all along on the wall of the cave were mere representa...

Froebel's Contributions to Montessori Schools

much credence outside of his native country, but in the nineteenth century the first kindergarten units were opened in British pri...

The Government According to Aristotle

that when things were fully developed, and had naturally reached their conclusion - or ending - they were simply following their n...

Character Sketch of Othello

of all, it establishes his character as a nobility in his own right, as he is descended from royalty. Furthermore, Othellos simple...

Life History and Contributions of Paracelsus

which a metal has grown is such a concealment. Each one of the visible metals is a concealment of the other six metals" (The Coelu...

Philosophy Questions and Religion

for example, would exist even if there were no human beings there to see it, but not that colour was an independent spiritual form...

Good Political Leadership and the Differing Views of Aristotle and Plato

as the original Greek legal process aspired to achieve such status, it can readily be said that its integrity has been severely co...

Literature and Philosophical Themes

education is still substantially elevated in contemporary culture. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees virtue as choice and so mora...

Is There a Distinction Between the Soul and the Body?

a body" (Aristotle), Plato illustrates his inability to see beyond mankinds mortal connection, opting instead to focus upon a deci...

TV's History, Development, and Cultural Contributions

they have so come to believe that a meaningful life is tied to what and how many products they purchase (pp. 112). Furthermore, Co...

Legal Positivism and the Philosophical Contribution of Hart

the idea that there are reasons for implementing law beyond the idea of just maintaining law and order. Other supporters of positi...

Are Principles Chosen or Inherited?

the society and, subsequently, from the self. Sartres concept of alienation was certainly different from Marxs. Of course, Mar...

German History and the Contributions of Helmut Kohl

was Chancellor between 1949 and 1963 and has been viewed as strong-willed, and as someone who created a Germany that was in line ...

Sociology Contributions of Emile Durkheim

that views societies as moving, bit by bit, from "mechanically" governed societies, which are ruled by custom and religion, toward...

B.F. Skinner's Contributions

Law of Effect. In the Law of Effect positive effects serve to strengthen the stimulus/response connection while negative effects ...

The Bauhaus and Joost Schmidt's Contributions

desire of Gropius to make "modern artists familiar with science and economics," which he felt would "unite creative imagination wi...

Nature Concept

and the construction company wants to get on with their job of building whatever. Henry David Thoreau, in Walden Pond, written i...

Social Contributions of Philosophers

was changing in terms of philosophy. John Lockes The Second Treatise of Civil Government is rather compelling and in fact, free ch...

Ancient and Modern Learning Techniques

education (267). One might say that the stance is rather snobbish, but many do separate vocational and academic curriculums. They ...