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

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

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

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

also believed in one realm. Spinoza writes: "By God, I mean a Being absolutely infinite -- that is, a substance consisting in inf...

with pleasure, which is why they "love the life of enjoyment" (Aristotle). Considering this stance, the next development in the m...

any era. Certainly today there is ordinary life and political life. One can see the difference in lives between politicians?whose ...

deep down, but on the surface they are essentially chained and shackled. They are in the dark about a lot of things because they c...

What comes out of a courtroom is not necessarily truth, but which side argues best. The Sophists prided themselves on the use of p...

can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees it as symbolic of humans o...

parallels between the relationship of the monarch to his people and the statesmen to the free citizen. Similarly, Aristotle also...

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

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

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

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

who will eventually hold office and decide what to pursue in respect to issues like abortion, stem cell research and capital punis...

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...

and non-rational elements. Of the non-rational, the autonomic responses (breathing, sleeping, digesting, and reproducing) is commo...

support for the notion that people must obey the laws of the place in which they are born. How is this accomplished? Aristotle d...

agree with Aristotles ideas, and see morality as a living concept, and something that should not be tampered with. What might Aris...

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...

of fate. In the process, our sympathy is aroused" (The tragic hero). Within this definition, tragedy also is included in that it ...

on which the man can stand (and is therefore the crown of the virtues) because Aristotle believed that a man who demonstrated prid...

dramatic action by the end of the play (cathartic release), and falls into two parts comprising a complication and a d?nouement(El...

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...