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The Prodigal Son in Augustine's Confessions

tale was reduced to feeding pigs in order to survive. Augustine writes, "Where then, wast thou and how far from me? Far, indeed, w...

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 ...

Perspectives of Rene Descartes and Aristotle

believe in absolutes. Much of what the philosopher contends seems to provide support for that view. Aristotle says, in line with t...

Looking at Empiricism and Rationalism

also believed in one realm. Spinoza writes: "By God, I mean a Being absolutely infinite -- that is, a substance consisting in inf...

Krakauer's Into the Wild and London's To Build a Fire

to civilisation? Probably not. We can, therefore, only speculate as to whether or not McChandless might have seen his death as mer...

The Concept of Forms According to Plato and Aristotle

deep down, but on the surface they are essentially chained and shackled. They are in the dark about a lot of things because they c...

Christianity and Whether or not Belief in God Has Become Less Important Than Belief in Jesus Christ

Christ. The polytheistic society of ancient Greece was already moving toward belief in a single god by the time of Plato and his ...

Friendship According to Aristotle

me to the airport as an appropriate use of your resources (your time and your car), given our relationship and the circumstances i...

Unique Pride Concept of Aristotle

they tend to see the world with blinders on. They may not be as sympathetic to another individual if they embrace a particular per...

Nature's Importance

case where an assignment of value to something that man generally does not have to pay for occurs, there are always critics who ar...

A Polls' Analysis

or job prejudice against someone because he or she is gay) can end up really confusing the issue, rather than giving a clear-cut p...

Paul Shepard's Nature and Madness

on behalf of those who embrace the concept of "green," including clean air, food and water, nothing much has really changed, eve w...

Responsibility According to John Stuart Mill, Immanuel Kant, and Aristotle

his position by specifying that only a certain kind of agent can qualify as a moral agent, and thus subject to the ascriptions of...

Art According to Plato and Aristotle

However, Allen also makes the point that Platos attitude was at least partially due to his respect and fear of the powers of art o...

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and Anger

Aristotles contention is that we are all prone to anger - it is one of the "passions" that makes up our...

Both Modern and Ancient Views of Beruit and Cairo

is still regarded as sacred ground. "The citys long journey across history started more than four millenia ago. Throughout the ag...

Machiavelli's Beliefs on Truth as a Princely Duty

a leader? How should a prince behave? Although the motive for Machiavelli writing this piece, and the application of this work to ...

Civilization and Progress

Olympic Games that the Greeks initiated. On the other hand, most of the Greek citizens were obliged to labor for the purpos...

Ethics and Aristotle

The ethical theory of Aristotle is examined in this combination essay and research paper that consists of seven pages and includes...

Commonwealth of Cicero

In six pages Cicero's concepts of justice and political stability are compared with the views of Aristotle and Plato. Six sources...

Ethics According to Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle

In five pages these philosophers' views on ethics are contrasted and compared as represented by Aristotle in Nicomachean Ethics an...

Polis Rule According to Aristotle and Plato

In ten pages this paper considers how Plato and Aristotle viewed the polis rulership concept. Eight sources are cited in the bibl...

An Exploration of The Unities

it. A well constructed plot, therefore, must neither begin nor end at haphazard, but conform to these principles" (Aristotle 7-8)....

Nature of Dreams According to Sigmund Freud

In twenty pages this paper examines the nature of dreams in terms of Sigmund Freud's theoretical interpretations of them....

'What is Man?' and William Shakespeare's King Lear

In four pages the question regarding the nature of man is examined within the context of William Shakespeare's King Lear....

Differing Opinions of Aristotle and Plato

In eight pages this paper examines how the views of Aristotle and Plato on God's existence, poetics, and forms concepts differed. ...

Materialism, Hylemorphism, and Philosophy

The views of Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle are examined in this consideration of the preference for hylemorphism over materialism i...

Philosophies of Love and Friendship

This paper examines the philosophies of Aristotle as seen in the Nicomachean Ethics, and the views of C.S. Lewis in his work, The ...

Anger and Friendship in Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle

instrumental in acknowledging the fact that universal law of good will can only exist if what is right for one person is also exte...

The Golden Mean of Aristotle

In five pages the way in which Aristotle perceived the golden mean as described in Politics is discussed and also compared with Th...