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Essays 301 - 330
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...
has purpose and meaning. The second profession that Folly castigates as they weave "six hundred laws together" in order to contr...
one is virtuous, and that their actions are virtuous, but that might be illusive. Can virtue be whittled down to intrinsic right o...
Virtuous action was defined by Aristotle as what a person with practical wisdom would choose. The golden mean, as defined by Ari...
directors. Because of the intimacy between stage performers and the audience, Shakespeares prose is able to serve as a feature pe...
hand, argued that people would be attracted to others and be willing to help others, if they are virtuous (Lorenz, 2003). Virtue i...
this child is not identified in the book (Fairbanks, 2002). It seems as if in this book he doesnt necessarily chastise himself fo...
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...
and the construction of "local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained" (19...
Kantian ethical system as an impartial viewpoint: however, when one considers virtue ethics, it is evident that these come from ev...
top the list. The Catholic Church is often quoted as having said, "Give me a child until he is seven and he will always be Catholi...
Conceptions of Virtue). Furthermore, it was Plato who argued that love was the essential ingredient in the good life because love...
warning regarding change: "Changes in estate also issue from this, for if, to one who governs himself with caution and patience, t...
the King that the murderer of Laius (the previous King) must be brought to justice. Oedipus swears he will go on this quest to fin...
having inherent familiarity and truth, and others as alien in the sense of irrevocably different, and tempting in the sense that o...
In six pages this paper discusses the 'new prosperity' as discussed by Dinesh D'souza in The Virtue of Prosperity. There is one s...
In eight pages this paper examines the Athenian doctrine or thesis in a consideration of Athens' and Sparta's motivations and virt...
what it is that you "can do," and then doing that for the good of the group - in this case the city. The unification of the virtu...
In five pages Aristotle's contentions regarding overcoming self interests in human nature are examines within the context that acc...
This paper examines how the human concept of virtue and its pursuit influence human nature and society within the context of the t...
This paper discusses Richard Kraut's commentary on the intellectual elitism of Aristotle an defines virtue in this overview of Ari...
In six pages this paper discusses the strengths and weaknesses of various philosophical theories with the utilitarianism of John S...
In five pages this paper discusses happiness and virtue as these concepts relate to Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant. Three...
In ten pages this report discusses how moral theories address contemporary life issues with such ethical concepts as virtue, care,...
In a research paper consisting of 6 pages, what served as the Middle Ages' Christian dogma of seven cardinal virtues and seven dea...
This paper consists of five pages and contrasts and compares Baron's Kantian views, Pettit's consequentialist persperspectives, an...
In five pages this paper examines a hypothetical contemporary dialogue between these 3 philosophers on how daily life features vir...
This paper considers whether or not virtue and vice are constructs of the human condition in five pages. Five sources are cited i...
In five pages this paper contrasts the differences between these two philosophies as represented in the texts The Virtue of Selfis...