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Essays 211 - 240
directors. Because of the intimacy between stage performers and the audience, Shakespeares prose is able to serve as a feature pe...
one is virtuous, and that their actions are virtuous, but that might be illusive. Can virtue be whittled down to intrinsic right o...
Virtuous action was defined by Aristotle as what a person with practical wisdom would choose. The golden mean, as defined by Ari...
narrator restores the sight of the Greek love god Cupid, and he subsequently flees (Donaldson 154): "And (withal) I did untie / Ev...
and ones existence. To reach true happiness, Plato contended that people must strive for a contentment that only comes from being...
plot. There is little else that constitutes the plot other than Henry and his brilliant ability to dominate every situation. The...
when the Beowulf poet writes "Fate always goes as it must" (43) and "Fate often saves an undoomed man when his courage is good" (...
well as] hard physical work and unhealthy lifestyle" and most donors are sent home after only five days (Tomiuc, 2003). While the ...
what it is that you "can do," and then doing that for the good of the group - in this case the city. The unification of the virtu...
This paper considers whether or not virtue and vice are constructs of the human condition in five pages. Five sources are cited i...
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...
This paper discusses Richard Kraut's commentary on the intellectual elitism of Aristotle an defines virtue in this overview of Ari...
In six pages this paper discusses the strengths and weaknesses of various philosophical theories with the utilitarianism of John S...
In five pages this paper discusses happiness and virtue as these concepts relate to Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant. Three...
In an essay that consists of five pages Aristotle's lofty view of pride as the ultimate virtue is discussed within the context of ...
In six pages this paper discusses the 'new prosperity' as discussed by Dinesh D'souza in The Virtue of Prosperity. There is one s...
In eight pages this paper examines the Athenian doctrine or thesis in a consideration of Athens' and Sparta's motivations and virt...
then, where does one go? Which way is correct? Going back to ancient times, Aristotle had a lot to say about virtue. In the Nicoma...
In five pages this paper examines a moral life in a consideration of the significant cardinal virtues of justice and temperance. ...
self-destruction. Socrates proposes many people in the simple city would not be satisfied forever with a simple way of life (Pla...
having inherent familiarity and truth, and others as alien in the sense of irrevocably different, and tempting in the sense that o...
84). However, Socrates is willing to concede that an individual can desire an evil thing if he mistakenly first evaluates it as go...
into two intellectual worlds. Aristotle goes on to explain: " but with regard to what happiness is they differ, and the many do n...
chastity and humility. He listed them subjectively, in what he regarded as their order of importance. But out of all these lauda...
the buying and selling of human beings. How would a Kantian analyze the ethics of slavery? How might a utilitarian, a social con...
Still, most Americans see themselves as free and voice their opinions loudly. What does this mean exactly? Is it the same freedom ...
of women in medieval society, De Pizan wrote two of her most significant works, The Book of the City of Ladies and The Book of the...
was someone who, as Derek Walcott classified him, was ". . . the icon of Yankee values, the smell of wood smoke, the sparkle of de...
where a distinct division of power was responsible for the tapering affect that cascaded throughout each districts diversity of au...