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

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

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...

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

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,...

the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...

behind such behavior it simply cannot be condoned, inasmuch as society cannot be defined as a scientific expression when it routin...

the Sophoclean template, time should also be compressed and restricted, with the action of the play taking no more than one day. B...

unchanging primary principles constitute the basis of all knowledge, and that knowledge of a thing is required in order to conduct...

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...

what is not. Descartes method of systematic doubt is to "reject as if absolutely false anything as to which I could imagine t...

that is permanent and immutable. It is this world that is more real; the world of change is merely an imperfect image of this worl...

"...no man will benefit from his profession unless he is paid as well" (Plato, 2003, p.28). One can easily see that Plato does not...

they tend to see the world with blinders on. They may not be as sympathetic to another individual if they embrace a particular per...

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...

of science there are two branches which are epistemology and metaphysics (Honderich, 1995). Science makes up an important part of ...

who live with us and present themselves in abundance, as far as is possible. Wherefore we must keep them before us1." Here, it see...

like the male philosophers of the day. She was the exception. While by and large, the people saw women as having a subservient pla...

Christ. The polytheistic society of ancient Greece was already moving toward belief in a single god by the time of Plato and his ...

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...

a larger than life figure. He is perfect. He is a leader as well as a handsome and delightful mate for Desdemona. Because Othello ...

and other shows have introduced a world of learning to toddlers and the preschool set. There are educational shows for adults and ...

for, but for which there were certainly problems. People too easily give up on it. In his work entitled The History of the Pelopon...

end. The tragic nature of the story does rely on the supposition that Othello is indeed propelled to do something because he is ...