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Essays 181 - 210
make rash judgments. Also, there could very well be exceptions to this happiness rule. Why did Aristotle believe that reason is eq...
suggest that both love and hate can be taught (Plato). We can further extrapolate from that to conclude that if a nation is in har...
this one from the Chief Medical Health Officer of Vancouver Island (Canada), relates low income to significant health problems: "....
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...
navy of the Confederate States of America. Roughly one-fifth of US naval officers resigned and joined the Southern rebels. In hi...
has purpose and meaning. The second profession that Folly castigates as they weave "six hundred laws together" in order to contr...
way to be part of the community.3 Each person had a role - the host would extend a graceful welcome to the guest and the guest wou...
see past all the trappings. We see the essence of the other person. We see their potential. We practice what St. Paul wrote: "Love...
lock of her hair, the background to the event imbues it with a completely disproportionate quality of the melodramatic. Clarissa, ...
Categorical Imperative and states that before we act we consider what the effect of that action would be if it became a universal ...
in Pojmans work he illustrates how people behave a particular way. "If someone treats us to dinner, gives us a present, teaches us...
has probably viewed this film, this writer/tutor has not. Also, the Paper Store charges a considerable fee for watching a film in ...
virtue is something that people can live with on a daily basis. Virtue is equated with doing the right thing in the present. Ideal...
tries to tell the girl that her physical problems are minor and not noticeable-when the girl has her leg in a brace (Williams). Th...
adherence to well-established procedures. Within that framework is room for individual development and performance, but always wit...
in order to insure passage to the underworld. The Underworld in this mythology was not a particularly happy place; it was a gloomy...
is to preserve the "state," that is the authority of the state, as opposed to having genuine feeling for the welfare of the people...
happiness may not be found during our earthly lifetimes, rather, it is in our eternal life that our happiness will be gained. In ...
the foot of power!/Nothing care I for Zeus" (Aeschylus). In other words, Prometheus will not succumb to tyranny and a power that r...
also something that is easily masked. Bad people can appear good and vice versa. Making a determination about an individuals tru...
and Aristotle are philosophers who discuss virtue. Yet, Yu (1998) claims that when it comes to virtue, neither Aristotle or Confu...
who live with us and present themselves in abundance, as far as is possible. Wherefore we must keep them before us1." Here, it see...
when the Beowulf poet writes "Fate always goes as it must" (43) and "Fate often saves an undoomed man when his courage is good" (...
is not that everyone just does what they think is right or what society tells them is right, but they sense that something good co...
2003). Restating that: sentiment is beauty and virtue; and if the sentiment we feel when we see beauty is instinctive approval, ...
commandment "thou shalt not kill", for example, are forced to re-examine their views in the light of military service in wartime, ...
correct them by illustrating how values are an integral component of personhood. Indeed, it can readily be argued how the concept...
shocked when driving a short distance from the slums of inner cities to the world of wealthy suburbs?" But it is not...
importance and children were to be guarded from superfluous information to come from for example poetry and literature. Rather, th...