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Essays 961 - 990
dramatic action by the end of the play (cathartic release), and falls into two parts comprising a complication and a d?nouement(El...
is aligned with the fact that people are alone all of the time because no one can experience what they are experiencing exactly. I...
will is responsible for the subsequent chain of events. Therein is the problem of free will. If it in fact exists, how...
and it was on this that Plato based his philosophical oeuvre (1994). He was not only a disciple of Socrates but a diehard adversar...
plague wreaks death and despair onto the Theban people, Oedipus pride motivates him to make a deal whereby he reveals the identity...
(2002) argument is based on his experiences as first a federal prosecutor, then a trial judge, and finally a California Superior C...
and non-rational elements. Of the non-rational, the autonomic responses (breathing, sleeping, digesting, and reproducing) is commo...
support for the notion that people must obey the laws of the place in which they are born. How is this accomplished? Aristotle d...
wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves social needs. A number of philosophers have contributed to the debate which...
agree with Aristotles ideas, and see morality as a living concept, and something that should not be tampered with. What might Aris...
who think that they are worthy of great things, but they are really unworthy of them, and that is pure vanity (PG). He goes on t...
unchanging primary principles constitute the basis of all knowledge, and that knowledge of a thing is required in order to conduct...
the Sophoclean template, time should also be compressed and restricted, with the action of the play taking no more than one day. B...
is a case for communism at least for the lower classes. The supporting premises for that conclusion have already been noted and ge...
were to consider what is most important in society, most would point to causation. One tries to get to the cause of ones drinking,...
the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...
behind such behavior it simply cannot be condoned, inasmuch as society cannot be defined as a scientific expression when it routin...
tragedy; there may be without character" (Aristotle Poetics Part VI). At this point Aristotle indicates that more often than not p...
just that mapping of reality that corresponds to the way things are" (25). Of course, many great philosophers, such as Descartes, ...
rich this indicates why he sees a democracy as a deviant state as it is argued that the poor will be the dominant influence on the...
happens, people fail to achieve happiness and feel only increased levels of stress (Morris, 1997). If businesses incorporated Ar...
In five pages the concepts of luck and chance are defined, described, and then examined from an Aristotelian perspective with the ...
In twelve pages the poetic metaphor and its value is assessed within the works of these varied literary and philosophical icons. ...
In five pages these philosophers' views on the physical elements of fire, water, earth, and air are contrasted and compared. Five...
In eight pages this tutorial compares these philosophers' views on liberty and character within the context of their writings with...
In five pages this painting is analyzed in terms of three aspects of the subject's psychological mood, light, and shadow which is ...
men for the society in which they develop. Youngs concepts of justice and mans role in society appear to challenge those prese...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares how this trio of philosophers perceived the soul and reality in a consideration of...
In 10 pages this paper considers how these philosophers would view the contemporary problem of drug abuse. There are 7 sources ci...
In five pages this paper examines the contemporary social relevance of 'The Aim of Man.' There are no other sources listed....