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Elizabeth Costello's Views on Animal Rights

Despite her poor reception by those that disagree with her philosophically, Costello makes many valid points about animal rights. ...

Pre-Socratic Philosophers as Compared with Later Thinkers

of fire (The New York Times, 2008). He lived during the late fifth century BC (The New York Times, 2008). The Eleatic school for i...

The Mean and Experience in Aristotle

works are studied to this day. They are unusually clear; difficulty in understanding may come from inept translations. This paper ...

The Western Tradition of Psychology

Psychiatry is a relatively new discipline yet its roots can be traced back to philosophers such...

An Analysis of a Case Study Regarding a Life and Death Decision

Kamath (2007) goes through all the possible outcomes regarding this dilemma. He explains that if the operation goes forth, there a...

Plato's Contribution to Understanding Philosophy and Philosophers

academy the first university of its type, he was able to influence minds of the next generation and proliferate his ideas and meth...

Contemporary Drama/2 New Plays & Aristotle

working class (Brown). Modern playwrights have expanded the conception of tragedy to include all walks of people in all circumstan...

Ancient Greek Philosophers

Aristotles concrete, scientific theories are more relevant than Platos deductive and abstract ideology. Aristotle believed...

Aristotle, Mill and Anakin Skywalker

the same way it does to other phenomena is related to the freedom of the will, a controversy that is still unsettled (Mill, 2003)....

Aristotle’s and Plato’s Theories in Philip Sidney’s Apology for Poetry Also Known as A Defence of Poesie

major argument in favor of poetry; that it was an educational tool that could be used in the instruction of moral values. Sidne...

The Problem of Isolation as Evaluated by Existentialist Philosophers

is aligned with the fact that people are alone all of the time because no one can experience what they are experiencing exactly. I...

Questions on Aristotle and Hobbes

Hobbes believed that people, when left to their own governance, that is, without official laws and government, live in continual...

Theories of Tragedy from Aristotle to Freud

audience feel watching a tragedy" ("Greek Theory of Tragedy: Aristotles Poetics"). The audience has to feel something significant ...

Defense Management Ethics and Classic Philosophy

In five pages the perceptions of classical philosophers Machiavelli, Plato, and Aristotle are applied to defense management's ethi...

What is Law?

virtue by the wayside. Virtuous men and women are well behaved. Aristotle makes a good point. For this theorist, virtue is learned...

The Problem of Free Will and How It is Treated in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House

will is responsible for the subsequent chain of events. Therein is the problem of free will. If it in fact exists, how...

Comparative Analysis of Oedipus and Willy Loman as They Relate to Aristotle’s Definition of a Tragic Hero

plague wreaks death and despair onto the Theban people, Oedipus pride motivates him to make a deal whereby he reveals the identity...

Struggle Between Good and Evi

idea creates a "binary logic," in which evil is conceptualized as an "entity, a quality that is inherent in some people and not in...

Is There A Purpose In Human Existence?

with the heavens above have made astronomy the single most critical application with regard to his place in the universe. The ver...

The Relationship Between Technology And Human Freedom

minds and bodies has become somewhat of a hobby with the presence of such technology as mood-altering drugs and cosmetic surgery (...

Human Rights Violation: Gender

gender equality has come to reflect equity of human rights, as well. This Western ideology, however, has not infiltrated those gl...

HRIS Discussion

Since the 1990s, information systems have played a key role in managing the functions of this division. Today, human resource info...

Virtuous Action and Acting Virtuously in Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle

In five pages the question 'How does acting virtuously increase one's capacity to act virtuously?' is examined within the context ...

Virtue: A Comparison of the Views of Aristotle and Confucius

and Aristotle are philosophers who discuss virtue. Yet, Yu (1998) claims that when it comes to virtue, neither Aristotle or Confu...

Confucius and Aristotle Compared

and deficiency (McCartt, 2003). Moral virtue also follows this pattern, although in this regard Aristotle refers to it as the "Go...

Tom Morris's If Aristotle Ran General Motors

happens, people fail to achieve happiness and feel only increased levels of stress (Morris, 1997). If businesses incorporated Ar...

Nature and Biology According to Aristotle

Aristotle also proposed that the "idea of a perfect statue" is already in the marble and that the marble itself seeks to realize ...

Luck and Chance as Viewed by Aristotle

In five pages the concepts of luck and chance are defined, described, and then examined from an Aristotelian perspective with the ...

Contemplation and Calmness in Philosophy According to Sebastian de Grazia and Aristotle

who waste time believing or fearing that which is untrue could not possibly be calm or contemplative; as such, they could change t...

Comparative Philosophical Analysis of Niccolo Machiavelli, Plato, and Aristotle

have been utilized in both historical and contemporary politics: (a) The use of diplomacy and the formation of coalitions; (b) Vio...