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In eight pages this paper examines Mahatma Gandhi's life in an application of Aristotle's 'good life' concepts. Two sources are c...

here, but Platos position that it is necessary to experience a thing in order to have knowledge of it informs the reading of The R...

did not invent the principle of utility (which goes back to Plato) however, he was the first to devise a comprehensive theory base...

made up of fundamental interactions between individuals and that the unification of men has led to social laws that further define...

influential thinkers of the ancient age. Despite their obvious inter-related lives, they still had significantly differing opinio...

theory is brought forth numerous times throughout Aristotles well-read and well-quoted Nichomachean Ethics. Aristotles vie...

a bad man or above humanity; he is like the Tribeless, lawless, hearthless one,whom Homer denounces- the natural outcast is forthw...

trial for treason and his thoughts prior to his execution. These are the Apology, the Crito and the Phaedo, which is an account of...

these theories are placed in, they are all based on the "proposition that the advanced cognitive processes of primates are primari...

keep order and lock up criminals and investigate injustices, but it is not governments job to tell the people how to live their li...

they established themselves in a small house in London. Pampinea then relates how the brothers scrimped and saved and started rebu...

or good enough. This individual does not say they have gone out of their way for another, nor have they claimed that they have sto...

close relationships over great distances and for a long period of time, indefinitely, even with separations and loss of contact" (...

He asserted that evidence that God exists in a singular or plural context because it has become universally accepted as truth (135...

of the two or the rule of the inferior is always hurtful" (NA). In this we see an incredibly humane approach, as well as a humane ...

examine carefully Descartes famous "cogito ergo sum" statement, which was the original Latin for "I think, therefore I exist" - or...

the right objects, towards the right people, with the right motive and in the right way. He states in Book II, "The moral virtues,...

Augustine, himself, mentions his own difficulties in struggling to overcome his own lustful desires in Book III of Confessions. Du...

it is (L) that connects human behavior with the environment via "desires and beliefs" that the environment fosters in us (Rosenbe...

conceived of without thought. Therefore, it was necessary to transform reality into an object or thought, which further distingui...

surface is quietly polite and cheerful as convention calls for, yet below the surface she is seething. She hates the fact that the...

existing moral standard. This fact should be kept in mind in understanding that for Aristotle whether a certain kind of behavior w...

past times are given (or as he put it more cautiously, "presupposed") in the present time. It is possible, according to Kant, tha...

core of humanitys lack of individualism and blind willingness to be part of what he referred to as "the herd." In Nietzsches opini...

force themselves upon their wives for sexual favors, and they are not allowed by faith to molest them. The Torah and Talmud both ...

shared roles and rules to make ourselves intelligible. In this sense self is a performance, and consciously or unconsciously we pr...

receive a portion of the financial gains that result from their ideas (OToole, 1995). Also, at Herman Miller, 100 percent of all f...

the sense of with aristocratic soul" (Nietzsche, 2002). This development occurred simultaneously with its polar opposite, by whic...

In particular, Wikholm (2002) cites the work of Karl Ulrichs and his descriptions of "men with an inborn attraction to other men."...

Due to this orientation, not surprisingly, Locke saw education as extremely important. He felt that education should, ideally, be ...