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An Ethical Argument on the Abortion Issue

that school. He points out that the insight that Aristotle provides in "On the Soul" and "On the Generation of Animals" serves as...

Is Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman a Tragedy?

In six pages this essay evaluates Miller's play based upon Aristotle's tragic components to conclude that Death of a Salesman is i...

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...

Not So Tragic Death of a Salesman

("Introduction"). An example of this might be the concept of the senseless murder. Some suggest that this is an oxymoron. After al...

Tragic Form of Aristotle and Contemporary Cinema

had erred so completely, even though he did so unknowingly, his only recourse was to take his own life. In Fight Club, then, th...

Happiness Concept of Aristotle

explains that most men identify good, or happiness, with mere pleasure and that is the first type of life. Many are familiar with ...

Happiness According to Aristotle

wisdom is real. Hence, there exists an objective, intrinsic morality. There is a right and wrong after all. Of course, determining...

How Aristotle Opposes Plato's Attack on Poetry

the lyrics in modern songs, and in essence, the poets of today are Eminem and Jay Zee and Beyonce. Lyrics to emanate from these ar...

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...

Virtue Ethics Case Analysis

half weeks pay. Sheila leaves a message on Wandas machine saying that she will pick up the dolls that evening, and a check for her...

Hamlet According to Aristotle

In three pages this essay provides an analysis of Hamlet based upon the principles contained within Aristotle's Poetics and discus...

Tragedy Concepts

the audience; and finally, it must be complex (McManus, 1999). Complex here means the plot contains a "reversal of intention (peri...

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...

Source Credibility and Communications

(2005) notes, if the audience considers that the source is speaking from an objective standpoint or from motives of altruism, then...

History of Rasselas by Samuel Johnson

only one who is not happy. It is not as if the reader has to identify with him in order to understand the point, which is that no ...

Physical World View of Dante

Aristotle. The sky is of course something that perhaps is significant in esoteric matters. After all, the sky is quite provocativ...

Aristotle and Plato Critiquing Education

as people do want to know things and understand (1995). Both theorists do view education as important and place a particular empha...

Developing a Position Argument for an Academic Audience A position argument for an academic audience

should also be noted that persuasion is not synonymous with dogmatism: the speaker must acknowledge that opposing viewpoints exist...

Happiness As Defined by Aristotle, Is It Still Relevant?

achieve this level of human excellence by adhering to the fourteen axioms acts of Nicomachean Ethics, which included gentility, ho...

Aristotle, Avenue Q, Joe Turner's Come and Gone

Thought is Aristotles third category. McManus (1999) speculates that this category can be associated with what modern critics woul...

The Metaphysics of Aristotle

essence (Honderich, 1995). Aristotles theory is something that focuses on the idea that something is one thing in and of itself a...

Aristotle's 'Tragic Hero' and Sophocles' Oedipus Rex

individual would grow up, kill his father, and marry his mother. In reality, few people would ever find themselves in such a circu...

The Man Who Turned Into a Stick by Kobo Abe

within the play. CHARACTER - the personality or the part an actor represents in a play; a role played by an actor in a play" (Aris...

Aristotle and the Role of Moral Education

Aristotle manages to come up with a provisional definition (Book II, Ch. 6, 1107a): Aret? is a state or condition of soul that is ...

A Look at Aristotle's View on the Educated Mind

weight, how to raise children properly and so forth. The majority of people are not much interested in deeper issues. One may rel...

Happiness as found in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

make rash judgments. Also, there could very well be exceptions to this happiness rule. Why did Aristotle believe that reason is eq...

Work Relationships From an Aristotelian View

When examining ethical theory and philosophies of hope, happiness is often at the forefront. It seems that the goal of most people...

A Civic Project

in membership in many different kinds of social and civil organizations over the last two generations (Putnam, 1995). The decline ...

Willy Loman, Not a Tragic Hero

of Willys character shows him to be a highly flawed man, who makes innumerable mistakes and brings about his own tragic demise by ...

Miller’s Death of a Salesman/A Greek Tragedy

of the play supports the concept of Willy as someone who is "stuck" emotionally at an immature level. Conclusion : As this indica...