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Poor Richard Benjamin Franklin
2,079 wordsAlthough in his Autobiography Benjamin Franklin claims that at a young age he "became a thorough Deist" (1359), Franklin saw God as much more than a blind watchmaker. Among his frequent references to practicality, reason, and the value of experimental science, Franklin's metaphysical beliefs [ 2 ] easily get lost, especially as he distances himself theologically from colonial Christian doctrines. It becomes convenient but incorrect to let Franklin's "virtue" stand apart from his religious belief...
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Dead Letter Office Dull And Lifeless Bartleby
734 wordsIn the working community there is no time to do anything that isnt work related. There is nothing more required from you other than to be obedient to your boss and to work efficiently so the company can do well. According to one of Benjamin Franklins thirteen virtues of industry, he said that one should: Lose no time. Be always employed in something useful. Cut of all unnecessary actions. Hard work and dedication pays off when you are trying to advance to a higher level. However, there are some ...
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Categorical Imperative Conventional Morality
1,105 wordsNietzsche: morality; How ought I to be? Nietzsche abhorred all morality; he felt it is fodder for the mindless masses (the herd). It deadens and destroys the individual, condemns creativity, and gives man no credit to make choices. It assumes man can not know what to do, so it lays down pre-made decisions for him to mindlessly follow. It ignores the nature of human instinct and stifles the growth of mankind. Moralists and philosophers both sought an order for the universe and a basis on which to...
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Knights Of The Round Table Legend Of King Arthur
1,905 words... genes of King Arthur of Britain and his Knights of the Round Table, among the most popular and beloved of all time, originated in the Middle Ages. As they do today, medieval people listened to the accounts of Arthur with fascination and awe. It is certain that popular folktales were told about a hero named Arthur throughout the Celtic parts of the British Isles and France, especially in Wales, Cornwall, and Brittany (Lunt 76). Other stories of chivalry that did not include Arthur existed in ...
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Ethical Analysis Of First Central Bank
1,177 words... unite with his employees is firmly established and cannot be infringed by a union or by the NLRB, and section 8 (c) merely implements the First Amendment by requiring that the expression of "any views, argument or opinion" shall not be "evidence of an unfair labor practice, " so long as such expression contains "no threat of reprisal or force or promise of benefit" in violation of section 8 (a) (1). The bank's letter to employees dated 6 / 7 / 86 stated in part that if the employees voted in...
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Plato And Good Life
1,377 wordsThe good life is a condition in which a person will be the most happy. Both Plato and Aristotle see the good life as the state in which a person exhibits total virtue. Plato reasons that a person will exhibit total virtue when his desires have been extinguished, while Aristotle believes the perfect state will bring forth the virtue in men. Plato argues that the good life springs from love because through love, men can rid themselves of desires. That is not to say that every loving relationship c...
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Medieval Thinkers Believed Traditional Medieval Thinkers Machiavelli
677 wordsIn The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli, Machiavelli goes against the traditional mindset that a prince derived his power from God. Machiavelli believed that the rulers were given no divine right. He said that a ruler achieved his power through hid own efforts and skills. The traditional thinkers believed that the ruler had to abide by Christian morals like the virtues. On the other hand, Machiavelli said that they did not have to abide by these Christian standards. Machiavelli was in contradiction...
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Prime Mover Moral Virtue
2,213 words... hod and its relevance to education, literary criticism, the analysis of human action, and political analysis Aristotle, like Eudoxus and Callippus before him, believed that each planet followed the path laid out by a certain number of spheres. Callippus had postulated 33 spheres in all, 4 each for Saturn and Jupiter, 5 each for Mars, Venus, Mercury, the sun and the moon. The problem with this model, however, was that, according to Aristotle; it did not explain how the motion of the outer sph...
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Epic Hero Trojan War
1,287 wordsAn epic is a poetic account of the deeds of an exulted and grand hero. In Homer's Odyssey, the great protagonist is Odysseus, a man who departed from his home to fight the Trojan War and who comes back after twenty years to find his household overtaken by lofty and contemptuous suitors courting his wife Penelope against her will. Throughout his journey, this rich and complex character battles life's temptations towards purification, since he must overcome his sins and flaws in order to obtain re...
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Order Of Angels Powerful Angelic Cherubim
701 wordsCherubim: the Cherubim are the second mightiest order of angels. Unlike the common depiction of these angels in art, their 'actual' appearance is not anything like it. The Cherubim have four wings and four heads. The four heads point out in the four cardinal directions. So much for child likeness! Cherubim is plural for the word Cherub, and derives from the Hebrew word Kerry meaning knowledge or one who intercedes. They are the next closest to God in Christian mythology and are also the bearers ...
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John Stuart Mill Pain And Pleasure
2,803 wordsPhilosophy Of three philosophical structures that have been proposed for examination, namely virtue based ethics, utilitarianism and deontology, virtue based ethics appears to be the most relevant. To prove correctness of my proposition, Ill give a brief account of the history of philosophy concerning the concept of ethics as being viewed by various philosophers, and examine all three trends by juxtaposing them and indicating their strengths and weaknesses. Likewise, I will try to focus on some ...
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Henry Ford Assembly Line
1,835 wordsRivers and man can be controlled but not trusted Niccolo Machiavelli wrote his famous dissertation on power The Prince in 1517. His thoughts on the rules of power encompass the struggles for every level of power, from the proletariat struggling in the corporate world to strategies performed by the world leader in the sixteenth century to now. Talking about the very statement Rivers and man can be controlled but not trusted, we can find many objective arguments which, however, lead us to the very...
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Sentenced To Death Society
1,874 wordsSocrates Socrates has thoroughly justified his own decision to obey the opinions of the majority and serve out the sentence that his own city has deemed appropriate for his crimes. At the beginning of this piece, Socrates has presented a period of questions and answers through dialogue with Crito. Throughout the dialogue Socrates is explaining his reasoning for not running from the government. Crito does not understand the madness of Socrates, Crito will do whatever it takes help his friend to f...
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University Of Toronto Edmund Spenser
2,022 wordsEdmund Spenser vs. Virgil and Ariosto Some scholars believe Spenser did not have sufficient education to compose a work with as much complexity as The Faerie Queene, while others are still extolling him as one of the most learned men of his time (587). Scholar Douglas Bush agrees, scholars now speak less certainly that they once did of his familiarity with ancient literature (587). In contrast, Merit Hughes finds no evidence that Spenser derived any element of his poetry from any Greek Romance (...
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Men And Women Don Quixote
1,875 wordsHenry Fielding: Joseph Andrews The title page of Henry Fieldings first novel reads as follows: The history of the adventures of Joseph Andrews and of his friend Mr. Abraham Adams. Written in imitation of the Manner of Cervantes, Author of Don Quixote. The allusion to Cervantes and his masterpiece Don Quixote as well as the explicit definition of his own writing later in the preface as a comic epic poem in prose, shows Fielding deeply aware of being the originator of a new genre which, as he wrot...
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State Of Nature State Of War
2,773 wordsOne of the main concepts in both Plato's Republic and Hobbes Leviathan is justice. For Plato, the goal of his Republic is to discover what justice is and to demonstrate that it is better than injustice. Plato does this by explaining justice in two different ways: through a city or polis and through an individual human beings soul. He uses justice in a city to reveal justice in an individual. For Hobbes, the term justice is used to explain the relationship between morality and self-interest. Hobb...
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3 Rd Century Neo Confucianism
2,581 wordsAs used originally by the ancient Greeks, the term philosophy meant the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake. The term philosophy is often used popularly to mean a set of basic values and attitudes toward life, nature, and society-thus the phrase philosophy of life. Western philosophy is considered generally to have begun in ancient Greece as speculation about the underlying nature of the physical world. In its earliest form it was indistinguishable from natural science. The writings of the ear...
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Foreign Governments Medici Family
701 wordsAssignment # 7 Nicole Machiavelli was the first great political philosopher of the Renaissance. He was born in 1469 and died in 1527. He was born in Florence, Italy. At the time he was born, the country was in political upheaval. It was divided between four dominant city-states, although each was always at the mercy of the stronger, more unified surrounding foreign governments. The Medici family+s reign, which had ruled Florence since 1434, was temporarily interrupted by a reform movement that b...
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Slave Morality Master Morality
358 wordsFriedrich Nietzsche, a unique philosopher had some very interesting ideas about peoples human values and personality types. In this essay I will explain what I like and dislike about his Master Morality &# 038; his antithesis to this, Slave Morality. According to Nietzsche, all morality is a manifestation of the will to power. The other is driven by the will to power but attempts to deny this. The term master morality refers to all the values of the psychologically strong willed people. They str...
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Years Of His Life Place In Society
1,536 wordsSymbolism dominates literature. Without it, the author is handcuffed and is left without a highly effective tool to convey his or her message. By using symbolism, an author can still maintain an objective appearance by letting the literary device do its work in expressing views, relaying opinions or simply stating the facts. We encounter a great deal of symbolism in Herman Melville's Moby Dick. The book itself is a clear representation of the American society, its values, goals and inhabitants, ...
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