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Poor Richard Benjamin Franklin
2,079 words
Although 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 words
In 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 words
Nietzsche: 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
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... 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 words
The 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 words
In 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 words
An 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 words
Cherubim: 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 words
Philosophy 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 words
Rivers 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 words
Socrates 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 words
Edmund 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 words
Henry 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 words
One 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
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As 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 words
Assignment # 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 words
Friedrich 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 words
Symbolism 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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