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- 241: Existentialism in the Early 19th Century
- ... can, however, be identified. The term itself suggests one major theme: the stress on concrete individual existence and, consequently, on subjectivity, individual freedom, and choice. Moral Individualism Most philosophers since Plato have held that the highest ethical good is the same for everyone; insofar as one approaches moral perfection, one resembles other morally perfect individuals. The 19th-century Danish philosopher Søren ...
- 242: The Olympic Athlete
- ... that developing the body was equally important as improving the mind for overall health. Also, regular exercise was important in a society where men were always needed for military service. Plato's Laws specifically mentions how athletics greatly improved military skills. Greek youth therefore worked out in the palaestra (wrestling-school) whether they were serious Olympic contenders or not. Ancient competitors ...
- 243: Aristotle- Thoughts And Philos
- ... follow. The point is the physical aspect of the soul, the body, must first be satisfied, for self-actualization (or self-realization as Aristotle states it). Aristotle, unlike his teacher, Plato, did not believe that the soul could survive the body. I strongly disagree with this; however from this I deduce that Aristotle did not leave a religious life. Many of ...
- 244: The Question of an Answer: What It Is To Be Human
- ... death mean that the body comes to exist by itself, separated from the soul, and that the soul exists by herself, separated from the body? What is death but that?" (Plato 1995, 68) Of all the type of dualism, value dualism is the most evident form found all around us. For example, here at The University of the Pacific, the course ...
- 245: What is Piety
- ... question unanswered in the end. The first definition that Euthyphro provides to Socrates is that "the pious is to do what I am doing now to prosecute the wrong doer" (Plato, Euthyphro, Grube trans., p. 9). This is merely an example of piety, and Socrates is seeking a definition, not one or two pious actions. Socrates says "you did not teach ...
- 246: Two Brands of Nihilism
- ... of an Error”, for it supposes to give a short rendering of how the “true world” is lost in the histories of disfiguring philosophies that posit otherworldly dualistic metaphysics. First, Plato's vision of the realm of forms. “The true world - attainable for the sage, the pious, the virtuous man…”, a feasible world, achievable through piety and wisdom. A world a ...
- 247: Comparitive Essay Between Perc
- ... beauties of life, and learning the good of living. The riddle of existence is the college curriculum that was laid before the Pharaohs, that was taught in the groves by Plato, that formed the trivium and quadrivium, and is to-day laid before the freemens’s sons by Atlanta University. And this course will not change...(Du Bois, 235). Because they ...
- 248: Multiculturalism
- ... the "Stanford-style multicultural curriculum" which aimed to familiarize students with traditions, philosophy, literature and history of the West. The program consisted of fifteen required books by writers such as Plato, Aristotle, Homer, Aquinas, Marx and Freud. By 1987, a group called the Rainbow Coalition argued the fact that the books were all written by DWEM's or Dead White European ...
- 249: Media And Culture
- ... His Kingdom on Earth". BIBLIOGRAPHY Hughes, Elizabeth M.B.G. The Logical Choice, How Political Commercials Use Logic to Win Votes. Lanham: University Press of America, 1994. O’Neill, John. Plato’s Cave: Desire, Power, and the Specular Functions of the Media. New Jersey: Ablex Publishing, 1991. Roach, Colleen. Communication and Culture in War and Peace. Newburry Park: Sage Publications, 1993 ...
- 250: Kurt Godel's Theory Of Unprovable Statements
- ... Kurt Godel may have been a philosopher in some sense of nature. All philosophers have their own unique way of solving things. One of the greater and more popular philosophers, Plato, used a method that was much similar with the proof that Kurt Godel introduced. His way of getting the point across was to ask questions and from there examine the ...
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