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

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

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

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...

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

(2002) argument is based on his experiences as first a federal prosecutor, then a trial judge, and finally a California Superior C...

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...

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

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

plot. There is little else that constitutes the plot other than Henry and his brilliant ability to dominate every situation. The...

believe in absolutes. Much of what the philosopher contends seems to provide support for that view. Aristotle says, in line with t...

not make up an ethical life. Rather, he based his ideas on his own ideas concerning reason, but he did so within the context of hi...

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

woman, then she was free to take back her dowry and return to her fathers house (Brians, 1998). While this sounds quite humanistic...

and ones existence. To reach true happiness, Plato contended that people must strive for a contentment that only comes from being...

his position by specifying that only a certain kind of agent can qualify as a moral agent, and thus subject to the ascriptions of...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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,...

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

as an imitation of reality, "it holds a mirror up to nature" (Durant, 1961, p. 59). Aristotle notes that human beings find pleasur...

This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...

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