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Essay Summaries

This essay summarizes several essays in the Longwood Reader. The paper provides the major points and support as well as the reader...

Ethos, Pathos, Logos, Mythos

One more type of proof has been added to Aristotle's three means of proof in a debate or argument. It is Mythos. All four are expl...

The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle

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

Rectificatory Justice: Voluntary and Involuntary

This 4 page paper gives an overview of rectificatory justice according to Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics. This paper includes dis...

Politics/Aristotle

This essay is on Aristotle's "Politics" and how he saw the role of the city in human life. The writer relates his political thinki...

The Importance of Good in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

mean happiness, and he endeavored to prove the good for man by first considering what is perceived as being good, discussing its c...

Friendship According to Aristotle and Sia

This paper utilizes Aristotle's text, Nicomachean Ethics, as well as M.S. Sia's novel, The Fountain Arethuse to convey various iss...

Ethics and Aristotle

The ethical theory of Aristotle is examined in this combination essay and research paper that consists of seven pages and includes...

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 ...

Mahatma Gandhi's 'Goodl Life' According to Aristotle

In eight pages this paper examines Mahatma Gandhi's life in an application of Aristotle's 'good life' concepts. Two sources are c...

Forms According to the Theories of Aristotle and Plato

perfect, despite what we observe. Forms are beyond this material world, for nothing that we can grasp in this world is perfect."3 ...

The Ideal Constitution According to Aristotle

of the two or the rule of the inferior is always hurtful" (NA). In this we see an incredibly humane approach, as well as a humane ...

Aristotle and John Stuart Mill on Happiness

In six pages this paper contrasts the utilitarian concept of John Stuart Mill with the true happiness theory of Aristotle. Five s...

Aristotle, Rational Freedom, and Causal Necessitation

In five pages causal necessitation is considered in relationship to moral responsibility and fate and includes Aristotle's work's ...

Contemporary Science and its Origins

In six pages this paper considers modern science's origins in an overview of how it has evolved since Aristotle's logic concept. ...

The Christian Church and Aristotle's Science and Philosophy

In ten pages this report assesses Aristotle's philosophy in terms of the impact it had on the Christian religion. Five sources ar...

Rhetoric Perspectives of Aristotle and Richard Weaver

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares past and present rhetoric perspectives of Aristotle's pathos, logos, and ethos and...

Pride According to Aristotle

In an essay that consists of five pages Aristotle's lofty view of pride as the ultimate virtue is discussed within the context of ...

Moral Education According to Aristotle

the right objects, towards the right people, with the right motive and in the right way. He states in Book II, "The moral virtues,...

Aristotle and Plato

theory of "seeing is believing" and that something must be touched in order to be a reality. According to Goellnitz, one s...

Adam Smith and Aristotle on Social Relations and Economics

as acceptable. If the issue in question happens to be acceptable to two-thirds of the population (upper class elitists), it is hi...

Aristotle's Legal Defense of a Guilty Man

and then define the perfect solution to problems that might arise. Aristotle claimed that: "I have gained this from philosophy: I ...

Historically Accurate Staging of William Shakespeare's Comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream

Athens and the Amazon Queen Hippolyta. Although the setting is Athens, Shakespeare originally staged the production at the Globe ...

Aristotle's Concepts of Excellence and Happiness

being within society: "the proper excellence or virtue of man will be the habit or trained faculty that makes a man good and makes...

Posterior Analytics by Aristotle and Rationalism

According to Aristotle (1997), "Reasoning is demonstration when it proceeds from premises which are true and primary or of such a ...

Happiness, Stoics, Epicureans, and Aristotle

not likely to live a pleasant life unless you practice moderation; the Epicurean philosophy was an argument for a traditionally mo...

Self Love According to Aristotle

we love ourselves, we fill ourselves with love that we then are able to give away (Is Self-Love Justifiable? 2004). If we do not...

Concepts of Contemporary Citizenship and Political Virtue as Viewed by Aristotle

the morality Aristotle speaks of is relative. While it is not relative from one individual to another perhaps, and there is certai...

Aristotle's Definition of a 'Tragic Hero' and the Deviation of William Shakespeare in His Play Othello

not apply. First, the tragic hero is supposed to be a combination of good and bad traits. Othello is a Moorish commander who has...

The Influence of Ancient Literature on Dante's Writing

under them split asunder; and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and all the men that belonge...