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Pursuit Of Happiness Good And Evil
1,309 wordsMarquis de Sade and the Enlightenment We are no guiltier in following the primitive impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her flood or the sea for her waves" - La Mettrie The eighteenth century embraced a secularized France in which the idea of utility, and not of salvation, were the principles by which one lived. Nature and reason in many ways replaced God. What this change left however, was a vacuum for the motive of morality in society. What would compel men to behave if not an omnipre...
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Nicomachean Ethics Mother Theresa
1,911 wordsIn Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle starts by explaining why people do what they do. Every action is the means to a greater end. Each end in turn can be seen as a means to an even greater end. A man makes horse shoes, the means, so he can shoe his horse, the end. He shoes his horse, the means, so he can ride into town, the end. So it goes until the ultimate end is reached, happiness. He is careful to explain that not all of these acts are good and just, saying we must examine them. To fall short of...
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Pain And Pleasure Make Choices
861 wordsAristotle's Notion of Virtue According to Aristotle, virtue primarily involves rationality and the use of a person's rationality. Rationality and happiness are activities of the soul, and virtue is the excellence of these activities. Humans are the only life forms that have a soul, the source of rationality. Thus, humans have a duty to always use their intellect. Three things are found in the soul: emotions, capacities, and characteristics. Emotions are things humans feel, like anguish or happin...
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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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Cardinal Virtues Four Cardinal
1,620 wordsIn our study of the four cardinal virtues we have been learning many ideas and theories on how to live the good life. It was very difficult in the beginning of this semester to define what the good life means. After studying the virtues and their theories it became very clear to us what the good life is all about. Josef Pieper, the author of the book we have been studying, has made it very simple to understand how to be a good human being. Christian thinking and morality has played a major role ...
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Four Foot First Place
1,746 wordsTo research Plato's paradox in the Meno, we can first consult the definition of what platonism is. Websters defines platonism as "actual things are copies of transcendent ideas and that these ideas are the objects of true knowledge apprehended by reminiscence. " For this essay, we will assume that transcendency is- "that which is beyond comprehension", and reminiscence as "past experience." The Meno is a dialogue between Socrates, a scholar and Meno, who eventually became an explorer. For this e...
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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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Good And Bad Good Examples
1,023 wordsBefore reading the Meno I thought I had a clear definition of exactly what virtue meant. Once I read the dialogue I realized that I only have an idea of what virtue and being virtuous means. I definitely think that it has many aspects to it, including moderation, justice, effort, patience, knowledge and being able to live peacefully with others. I believe that virtue is something that everyone has their own meaning for, yet everyones meanings go along the same lines. Since virtue is more complex...
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Teach His Son Virtue Cannot Be Taught Socrates
1,027 wordsIn Plato's Meno, Socrates discusses ways in which virtue can be acquired with Meno. Menos original question of whether virtue can be taught along with the more fundamental question of what virtue is occupies the entire text as Sophocles tries to bring about ways to answer. Three possibilities are confronted; first, that virtue is natural within the human soul; second, that virtue can be taught; and third, that virtue is a gift from the gods. These ways are debated by Socrates and Meno to a very ...
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Hold True Holds True
1,718 wordsLate in his life Socrates went around the market place having discussions with the countrymen. He believed that if someone claimed to know what X was then they should be able to define it. So he would usually ask a question such as, what is X? Socrates would not be pleased by just any answer; it had to be a solid definition. According to Socrates a solid definition consists of three conditions. The first is that the definition of X must hold true for all things that are X, but not for those thin...
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Order To Live Order To Find
2,580 wordsThis nine page paper on Aristotle Vs. Confucius compares and contrasts the ideas of Aristotle with that of Confucius. This paper also outlines where the ideas of both of these men differed from each other. This paper also proves that no matter how old the teachings of the philosophers may be, they still are in relevance today. Aristotle Vs. Confucius Aristotle and Confucius have been regarded as great philosophers of their times. While Aristotle was born in Stagira in North Greece, Confucius was...
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Theory Of Knowledge Point Of View
1,690 wordsThe challenges of relativism and skepticism This paper is dedicated to several questions such as the nature of virtue, relativism, and skepticism. While providing a research of Socrates and the Sophists Ill try to represent my point of view on current topic. Using various materials from academic websites and encyclopedias Ill discuss how Socrates responds to the challenges of relativism and skepticism. Also some necessary definitions will be made. First of all, on the very beginning of this pape...
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Things Socrates Taught Socrates Was Teaching Meno Virtue
1,060 wordsIs Socrates a teacher? During the dialogue between Socrates and Meno one of the questions raised is can Socrates be a teacher of virtue. This question, however, becomes more complicated when the matter concerns virtue itself. For teaching virtue Socrates first must identify its meaning and nature and then argue if he can teach it or not. Further on, Socrates comes to discuss his own capability of teaching and his defence here is that he, as a philosopher, has his own students, or its better to s...
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Virtue Is Acquired Definition Of Virtue Socrates
316 wordsSummary of Meno In the Meno dialogue, Meno asks Socrates if he knows how virtue is acquired: by nature, or by teaching. Socrates replies that one cannot know how virtue is acquired unless one has a solid definition of virtue. Socrates then charges Meno with the task of offering him a sufficient and whole definition of what virtue really is. However, Socrates has already created a foundation upon which a whole and unbroken definition of virtue cannot logically be made: First, he claims that Meno ...
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Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics
4,338 wordsESSAY CATEGORY: Philosophy Human nature Grade Language: English System: Country: Taiwan Authors Comments: Teachers Comments 11 / 6 / 96 Our life is full of problems. Reasoning is a usual way to response to problems which we concern about. We reason in response to everyday problems. For instance, asked by friends to go out dinner at a time when we have planned something else, we must decide which one is more important for us at that moment of time, and whether to decline or to adjust our schedule...
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Good Or Evil Pursuit Of Happiness
2,593 wordsInto the Abyss Marquis de Sade and the Enlightenment We are no guiltier in following the primitive impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her flood or the sea for her waves La Mettrie The eighteenth century embraced a secularized France in which the idea of utility, and not of salvation, were the principles by which one lived. Nature and reason in many ways replaced God. What this change left however, was a vacuum for the motive of morality in society. What would compel men to behave if no...
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19 Th Century 18 Th Century
5,856 wordsThe Jan Ifversen Jan Ifversen The Meaning of European Civilization A Historical-Conceptual Approach My interest in the concept of civilization was triggered by Samuel Huntington's now famous article The Clash of Civilizations from 1993. I have been working on different discursive settings of European self-consciousness for some times. The idea of Europe as an entity or even a quality has a rather long history in Europe. In the 15 th century the concept of Europe (which, previously, mainly had be...
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