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Essays 271 - 300
self-destruction. Socrates proposes many people in the simple city would not be satisfied forever with a simple way of life (Pla...
having inherent familiarity and truth, and others as alien in the sense of irrevocably different, and tempting in the sense that o...
of his accomplishments, many of which are successful. One of the problems in the writings of a man outlining his own accomplishme...
of the marketplace by big business (Bittlingmayer, 2002). Catanzaro (2000) accuses President Richard Nixon of using antitrust law ...
what one wants, and visualizing it, that one will eventually be free from the gnawing desire. This is true either through attainme...
- he refuses to take nourishment or leave his place of business. Instead of taking a sympathetic view of his employee, the narrat...
philosopher, would aid in curtailing discord while broadening the trust that must exist between peoples. Using the Myth of ...
importance and children were to be guarded from superfluous information to come from for example poetry and literature. Rather, th...
also indicates that he would much rather be known as a man who may have been ridiculous at times perhaps, or misunderstood, but th...
2004). John Stuart Mills, in his book Utilitarianism, further stated that not all forms of pleasure were of equal value (Free-Defi...
spoke of virtue as something equated with wisdom. Yet he also "spoke more expansively of justice, courage, temperance, magnificenc...
commandment "thou shalt not kill", for example, are forced to re-examine their views in the light of military service in wartime, ...
2003). Restating that: sentiment is beauty and virtue; and if the sentiment we feel when we see beauty is instinctive approval, ...
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...
the morality Aristotle speaks of is relative. While it is not relative from one individual to another perhaps, and there is certai...
correct them by illustrating how values are an integral component of personhood. Indeed, it can readily be argued how the concept...
reversals of fortune, illness, accidents and other events which contribute to their unhappiness. At the same time, the "evil m...
physical body to be sold, for the enjoyment of others, is tantamount to transforming the human body into a physical object. Kant...
shocked when driving a short distance from the slums of inner cities to the world of wealthy suburbs?" But it is not...
like knowledge itself, is secure. Indeed, according to Plato correct opinion is a guide to knowledge. To be correct, opinions th...
allow the young Emperor, age 8, to fall into the hands of Genji warriors, a "Nun of the Second Rank," instructs the boy to make h...
until the Cardinal spoke, indicating that he took Hythlodays suggests seriously. Then the entire company began to voice general ap...
who live with us and present themselves in abundance, as far as is possible. Wherefore we must keep them before us1." Here, it see...
Aristotle manages to come up with a provisional definition (Book II, Ch. 6, 1107a): Aret? is a state or condition of soul that is ...
has purpose and meaning. The second profession that Folly castigates as they weave "six hundred laws together" in order to contr...
suggest that both love and hate can be taught (Plato). We can further extrapolate from that to conclude that if a nation is in har...
In five pages this paper contrasts the differences between these two philosophies as represented in the texts The Virtue of Selfis...
In five pages this report assesses David Hume's attitudes regarding jusice and examines why he labels it as an artificial virtue b...
The ways in which male and female virtue changed in terms of the attitudes of Ancient Greece are examined in 6 pages in a consider...
code will represent, and who is to say that all cultures and all communities must follow it? Clearly, defining ethics is to defin...