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Virtue, the Soul, and the Philosophical Processes of Inquiry by Plato and Aristotle

VI of "Nicomachean Ethics", goodness under the concept presented by Plato suggests almost an unattainable element, and it was Aris...

Virtue as Perceived by Epictetus and Aristotle

In five pages this essay contrasts and compares the views of these ancient philosophers regarding the patience virtue. There are ...

Friendship and Marriage According to Barbara Whitehead and Aristotle

In a paper consisting of seven pages the concept of marriage rooted in friendship is a view shared by Barbara Whitehead and Aristo...

Virtue and the Political Thinking of Niccolo Machiavelli

In five pages this paper examines the leadership construct and the idea of virtue as it is featured in The Prince by Niccolo Machi...

The State and Individuals in the Politics of Aristotle

In four pages this research paper considers the relationship between individuals and the state as conceived by Aristotle in Politi...

Rules of Investing

In six pages with an outline of one page also included the traditional rules of wise investment are considered with the argument p...

Origins of Moral Virtue

as it applies to moral virtue is attempting to successfully pinpoint a single yet comprehensive connotation to its concept; howeve...

Virtue Defined

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

Sentiment and Reason According to Adam Smith and Aristotle

existing moral standard. This fact should be kept in mind in understanding that for Aristotle whether a certain kind of behavior w...

2 Essays in Christina and Fred Sommers' Vice and Virtue in Everyday Life

women, including approved activities, mannerism, education, sexuality and religious pursuits, as well as the extent to which there...

Meno and Plato's Arguments

they have experienced the fact that the truth simply is and is not an "issue" or understanding that can be discovered. "Meno" As ...

Examination of Courtly Love

where a distinct division of power was responsible for the tapering affect that cascaded throughout each districts diversity of au...

Values, Virtues, and the Poetry of Robert Frost

was someone who, as Derek Walcott classified him, was ". . . the icon of Yankee values, the smell of wood smoke, the sparkle of de...

Moral Defects and Virtues

be beneficial in the long run. Do the ends justify the means? Can virtue be whittled down to intrinsic right or wrong, or what one...

Morality and Cardinal Virtues

In five pages this paper examines a moral life in a consideration of the significant cardinal virtues of justice and temperance. ...

Ongoing Debate on Stem Cell Research

they could utilize embryos that are not in use. Tens of thousands of embryos are stored in clinics in the United States and some a...

Overview of Healthcare Economics

In ten pages healthcare economics is discussed in an overview that includes planning, rational planning, costs, efficiency, equity...

The Happiness Key According to Aristotle

it" (Aristotle, 350 B.C.E., p. PG). Here he brings up the subject of lying, a principle in society that seems to be upheld. Certai...

The Positions of Katie Cannon and Alasdair MacIntyre

and the construction of "local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained" (19...

Shakespeare's Henry V as a Virtuous Hero

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

English Literature and Virtue

when the Beowulf poet writes "Fate always goes as it must" (43) and "Fate often saves an undoomed man when his courage is good" (...

Happiness and Virtue According to Aristotle and Plato

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

Ben Jonson's 'A Celebration of Charis in Ten Lyric Pieces' Explicated

narrator restores the sight of the Greek love god Cupid, and he subsequently flees (Donaldson 154): "And (withal) I did untie / Ev...

Ethics and the Practice of Organ Trafficking

well as] hard physical work and unhealthy lifestyle" and most donors are sent home after only five days (Tomiuc, 2003). While the ...

Elenchos According to Socrates

always employs the dialogue not only as a didactic device, but as a technique for the actual discovery of opinions amongst men, th...

Humanity's Virtue in The Puppet Masters by Robert Heinlein

In five pages this paper examines this novel within the context of humanity's virtue as it emerges from conflicts of freedom v. co...

'Sleeping Beauty' Fairytale and Psychoanalysis

reach the real world, they are rudely awakened to the fact that life is nothing like it had been portrayed in the well-worn fairy ...

'The Sovereign Beauty' by Edmund Spenser

In six pages this explication of Spenser's poem argues that it serves as a celebration of Queen and country in terms of 'virtue' a...

MacIntyre's Perspectives on Habermas, Foucault, Nietzsche, and Aristotle

In seven pages MacIntyre's perspectives on these men and their philosophies are discussed as presented in After Virtue. Four sour...

Pride and Prejudice and its Aristotelian Concepts

points out that because magnanimous people have a proper set of values they frequently appear to have a "lofty detachment" to the ...