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Sense Of Guilt Christian Faith
3,495 wordsSeen Able Kierkegaard (b. 1813, d. 1855) was a profound and prolific writer in the Danish "golden age" of intellectual and artistic activity. His work crosses the boundaries of philosophy, theology, psychology, literary criticism, devotional literature and fiction. Kierkegaard brought this potent mixture of discourses to bear as social critique and for the purpose of renewing Christian faith within Christendom. At the same time he made many original conceptual contributions to each of the discip...
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Moral Judgments Plato Believed
1,368 wordsPassion as the Criterion for Moral Judgment Ethics is the study of human conduct or in other words the study of moral behavior. All humans use ethics in their daily actions and decisions, but not many have the opportunity to probe into the core of ethics. Ethics not only aims to discover the rules that should govern a moral life, but the goods one should aim to acquire in their life time. Ethics aims to explain why and how man acts the way he does and to shape the way man lives and acts, . Some ...
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Wrong Hands Present Time
450 wordsSocrates believes that the spoken words can be brought forth with great knowledge from the credibility of the speaker. The speaker would be able to dictate using his genuine knowledge to pass on his own beliefs. Socrates thinks that speaking is a more noble than writing because, the speaker can defend his own words. As for written words, they can only read by the reader and if the reader were to question the words, the written language can only say "the same thing, over, and over forever." The w...
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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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Thing Will Happen Virtue Can Be Taught Knowledge
612 wordster> "If that area is such that when one has applied it as a rectangle to the given straight line in the circle it is deficient by a figure similar to the very figure which is applied, then I think one alternative results, whereas another results if it is impossible for this to happen. " Although today's society includes much technology and new things are supposedly being discovered every day, many age old questions still remain unanswered; questions such as: "Can virtue be taught?" Th...
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Dead Poets Society Miss Jean
454 wordsDeath of Socrates' Paul B. Company These three works share numerous similarities. The most obvious of these is their character's desire and commitment to instructing and teaching youth. Miss Jean Brodie dedicated a major part of her life to 'her girls'. She would have done anything to help them. As time went along, she grew too close to them. As we saw, she was eventually betrayed by one of her own girls. She had her heart in the right place. She never did anything maliciously toward the girls. ...
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Religious Matters Greek City
1,020 wordsRoyal Stoa The ancient times it is a really times of mystery, strangeness and unknown. Now well try to look up to such times from nowadays. Agora originally meant "gathering place" but came to mean the market place and Public Square in an ancient Greek city. It was the political, civic, and commercial center of the city. Socrates spent most of his time at the agora in Athens discussing the serious issues of the day with anyone who was willing. Sited between 3 hills and a creek, along Panathenic ...
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Political Actors Plato Republic
2,689 wordsDescribe the goals and uses of political science (citizenship and democracy) and political actors. An elitist Plato, opposed to democracy and hostile to the masses, fills the literature. In the midst of an extensive philological and grammatical commentary on Plato's Republic, James Adam (1902, 2. 24, ad loc. 494 a) includes the following brief but telling observation: "The theory of Ideas is not a democratic philosophy. " He writes this in response to an interchange between Socrates and Adeimant...
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Oxford Oxford University Part Of The Soul
2,196 wordsPlato's View of Justice There is a natural progression from Plato's theory of Forms to his philosophy of ethics. If one can be deceived by appearances in the natural physical world, one can be equally deceived by appearances in the moral realm. The kind of knowledge that helps one to distinguish between shadows, reflections, and real objects in the visible world is just the kind of knowledge that we need to discriminate between the shadows and reflections of the genuinely good life. Plato believ...
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Money Aristophanes 33 Comic Poet Lysistrata
1,048 wordsPlato on Aristophanes "The Age of Heroes was passed and the Age of Iron was come. " (Lord 31) This age was the time when Aristophanes, the great Greek comic-poet, had lived and produced his fine works of literature. Aristophanes was "born an Athenian citizen some time in the decade following 450 BC" (Lord 21) "The Peloponnesian War began in 431 BC and dragged its weary course till 404 BC" (Lord 22 - 23) Aristophanes lived to see his city shorn of all her power, her fleets scattered and dismantle...
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20 Th Century Male And Female
1,952 words... is no distinction between strangers and citizens (563 a) - calling into question the very structure of a polis that cannot identify its own citizens. Everything (one) blends into the other. We can no more tell moderation from cowardice than we can tell a father from a son, a teacher from a student, or a citizen from a noncitizen. In contemporary understandings, the absence of hierarchy translates into equality, but that is too simple a translation for what occurs in the Republic; equality en...
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Killed His Father Oedipus Rex
3,266 wordsOedipus Rex By: Jason Smith E-mail: In Sophocles? s play? Oedipus Rex? Oedipus Even though " fate" seems to determine Oedipus life, . he does infact have a free will. His choices brought the prophecy to life. Only his decisions (not influenced by anybody) he made. Of course those decisions were in side of the limits set by fate. When Oedipus heard a prophesy that his going to kill his father and sleep with his mother he ran away, even when he new there were suspicions of him being the ...
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Peloponnesian War Political Life
422 wordsPlato's Life There is an ancient story (very likely a true one) that Plato was originally named Aristocles, but acquired the nickname Plato (broad or wide in Greek) on account of his broad shoulders. Both of Plato's parents were from distinguished aristocratic families. Plato himself, because of family connections and expectations as well as personal interest, looked forward to a life of political leadership. Besides being born into an illustrious family, Plato was born into an illustrious city....
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Ten Commandments True Knowledge
1,600 wordsWith the development of each individuals personal belief system, the development of a cult, or body of thought, there may be be the birth of a new concept of creation, morality, and life. Religions and belief systems traditionally have focused on the same basic rules of morality to guide the followers of those religions to heaven, another stage toward nirvana, or in some cases another mortal body. My research focuses on attempting to uncover the origin of morality and identify and define the rol...
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Believed That People Act Differently
1,507 wordsWhile reading The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton I had mixed feelings whether philosophy is relevant in todays society and if it had any affect on my life in particular. However after thinking about it I have come to the conclusion that philosophy is relevant and can be used to help peoples outlook on life. While some of the ideas the philosophers in this book had did not appeal to me, I thought it is good to have these ideas for the good of the society. Some of these ideas are cr...
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Good And Evil Garden Of Eden
1,400 wordsWe only choose what we think is good and if anyone chooses evil it must be through ignorance. Ignorance is not an excuse Molly Schweiger Philosophy 110, Section 07 01 David Turpin, 4 - 23 - 01 Plato believes that we always choose good unless we are ignorant. Plato claims being ignorant would be the only excuse for choosing evil. His views of this are apparent in the Meno. As I read up on whether or not we deliberately choose evil I realized there are many sides, many ways to answer this question...
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11 Th Century 16 Th Century
2,840 wordsIf you can Scholasticism Scholasticism If you can conceive of a God, does it prove one must exist? If we cannot see a moral truth does that mean it cant be? Are we one universal humanity or are we differentiated individuals? These are some of the questions that caused the development of Scholasticism, the intellectual discipline which sought to bridge the gap between religion and reason. Scholastic Philosophy is the love, desire and pursuit of wisdom. Taken in its broadest sense it includes the ...
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Knowledge And Truth Jesus Preached Philosophy
941 wordsWhat does one think when they hear the word Philosophy? Before I began this class, I really had no idea what the word Philosophy meant. I use to think it dealt with a bunch of really smart people trying to figure out the answers to lifes most basic and essential questions. For example: Why are we here? Is there a God? Is their life after death? Etc. What I failed to realize was that not only does Philosophy answers these questions but it also gets us to question things that we never once thought...
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Makes It Clear Helped To Shape
1,940 wordsSuicide has always been common throughout history, reaching back as far as the beginning of civilization. Reasons for taking ones life could range from preserving personal honor, physical decline, and love for a dead spouse, to spiritual reasons like the search for truth, becoming closer to virtue, or the belief their death could advance a cause. The religious and philosophical outlook of the period in which a person lived helped to shape their view and society's view on suicide. This outlook al...
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Big Picture Isn T
706 wordsThe argument of principality is a deep issue discussed in The Crito. Socrates was a solid and true believer in morality and the role that it plays in discovering principle. The argument put forth is that principle creates an honorable, or in more plain terms, an incorruptible life. We as human beings are most enlightened when we are first introduced into this massive collection of land and water known as earth. One might question this truth with the doubts that a newborn has no knowledge or even...
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