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Essays 151 - 180
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...
In eight pages the issues considered in Vice and Virtue in Everyday Life by Sommers and Sommers are discussed as they relate to al...
art is directed at a woman with whom he so desires to have a romantic affair. In his attempts to persuade her to consent, he pain...
In five pages this report assesses David Hume's attitudes regarding jusice and examines why he labels it as an artificial virtue b...
In five pages this paper contrasts the differences between these two philosophies as represented in the texts The Virtue of Selfis...
the foot of power!/Nothing care I for Zeus" (Aeschylus). In other words, Prometheus will not succumb to tyranny and a power that r...
see past all the trappings. We see the essence of the other person. We see their potential. We practice what St. Paul wrote: "Love...
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...
Categorical Imperative and states that before we act we consider what the effect of that action would be if it became a universal ...
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...
in Pojmans work he illustrates how people behave a particular way. "If someone treats us to dinner, gives us a present, teaches us...
lock of her hair, the background to the event imbues it with a completely disproportionate quality of the melodramatic. Clarissa, ...
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...
dew that falls at night as weeping for the demise of day, "For thou must die" (Herbert line 4). The second stanza focuses on the...
may be argued as being a general term it incorporates a number of different theories and approaches. When considering virtue, and ...
in order to insure passage to the underworld. The Underworld in this mythology was not a particularly happy place; it was a gloomy...
has probably viewed this film, this writer/tutor has not. Also, the Paper Store charges a considerable fee for watching a film in ...
adherence to well-established procedures. Within that framework is room for individual development and performance, but always wit...
way in which the under nourished may be fed. The issue for the communities in which poverty causes under nourishment it not an eco...
In seven pages this paper discuses Socrates' philosophy in an overview that includes his soul concept, what constitutes 'true' kno...
The ways in which male and female virtue changed in terms of the attitudes of Ancient Greece are examined in 6 pages in a consider...
code will represent, and who is to say that all cultures and all communities must follow it? Clearly, defining ethics is to defin...
In seven pages this paper applies Christine Sommers' edited text Vice and Virtue to an analysis of the ethics represented in the f...
In seven pages this research paper discusses how the philosophy of good and evil is analyzed in Christina Sommers' edited essay co...
agree that the most significant debate Jones had with himself concerning virtue and vice was when he decided to marry Sophia, one ...
In five pages this paper discusses how happiness can be achieved through virtue as illustrated in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibil...
subdivided into passions and reason (Yu 323). So, too, was his moral character, which explained how man could exist as both a soc...