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Essays 121 - 150
is to preserve the "state," that is the authority of the state, as opposed to having genuine feeling for the welfare of the people...
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...
happiness may not be found during our earthly lifetimes, rather, it is in our eternal life that our happiness will be gained. In ...
further examined by comparing the moral reasoning with the stages laid down by Piaget, with more complex and mature reasoning only...
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...
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, ...
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...
Categorical Imperative and states that before we act we consider what the effect of that action would be if it became a universal ...
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...
who live with us and present themselves in abundance, as far as is possible. Wherefore we must keep them before us1." Here, it see...
like knowledge itself, is secure. Indeed, according to Plato correct opinion is a guide to knowledge. To be correct, opinions th...
has purpose and meaning. The second profession that Folly castigates as they weave "six hundred laws together" in order to contr...
Aristotle manages to come up with a provisional definition (Book II, Ch. 6, 1107a): Aret? is a state or condition of soul that is ...
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...
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...
the morality Aristotle speaks of is relative. While it is not relative from one individual to another perhaps, and there is certai...
until the Cardinal spoke, indicating that he took Hythlodays suggests seriously. Then the entire company began to voice general ap...
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, ...
of his accomplishments, many of which are successful. One of the problems in the writings of a man outlining his own accomplishme...
of the marketplace by big business (Bittlingmayer, 2002). Catanzaro (2000) accuses President Richard Nixon of using antitrust law ...
physical body to be sold, for the enjoyment of others, is tantamount to transforming the human body into a physical object. Kant...
correct them by illustrating how values are an integral component of personhood. Indeed, it can readily be argued how the concept...
what one wants, and visualizing it, that one will eventually be free from the gnawing desire. This is true either through attainme...