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- 281: Virtue Based Ethical Systems
- ... of morality. Could a person who makes moral decisions unhappily be as moral as a person who makes them happily? One philosophy on that issue ranges as far back as Plato and Aristotle, this is the concept of virtue-based ethical systems. Pojman writes, Virtue ethics centers on the heart of the agent-in his or her character. Virtue ethics seeks ...
- 282: Aristotle- Thoughts And Philosophies
- ... 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 ...
- 283: Ancient Greece
- ... wanted explanations for the world and things around them . they made observations and came up with theories . These people were known as philosophers which means “the love of wisdom ” Socrates , Plato , and Aristotle were famous philosophers . Hippocrates is known as the father of medicines today doctors take the Hippocratic Oath , ”named after him , which requires them to act ethically and morally ...
- 284: Socrates
- Upon reading Plato, The Trial and Death of Socrates, Socrates strongly held views on the relationship between morality and laws become apparent to the reader. Equally, Socrates makes clear why laws should be ...
- 285: American Alligator
- ... 12. Anon. 1996. Good money from skins for US alligator farms. Fish Farming International, 23:[vp] Beck, Alan, Bob Gruen. 1994. Frequently asked questions about alligators and their kin. http://plato.phy.ohiou.edu/~mash/herp/alligator.html Congdon, JD, RU Fischer, RE Gatten Jr. Effects on temperatures on characteristics of hatchling American alligators. Herpetologica, 51:497-504. Foreyt, WJ, CW ...
- 286: History of Athens, Greece
- ... of the greatest Greek scientist is Aristarchus. He discovered the heliocentric theory - were the earth rotates around the sun. The first Olympic games were held in Athens in 1896. Socrates, Plato, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and many others were born. Military was a big aspect of their life. When a boy turned six or seven he was put into the military. Athens ...
- 287: Self-Reliance: Philosophies Of Transcendentalism And Individualism
- ... is genius.” (Emerson 222), and not from believing what another man thinks. He felt that these men were geniuses in their own time, “the heights merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they thought.” (Emerson 222), for looking to themselves for their own truth ...
- 288: Socrates
- ... never felt that he was wise for he was always in the pursuit of knowledge. Unfortunately, Socrates was put to death late in his life. One of his best students, Plato, however, recorded what had occurred on that last day of Socrates' life. On that last day of his life, Socrates made a quite powerful claim. He claimed that philosophy was ...
- 289: Cicero
- ... A distinction is evident between Cicero's philosophical works and his non-philosophical writings and oratories.11 On the matter of immortality of the soul, Cicero was in accordance with Plato rather than early stoics. The early stoics preached that the soul and body survive, yet not within a sense of capacity. By this they meant the soul was together with ...
- 290: David Hume 2
- ... to use any of your senses to experience things such as love. I have never seen, heard, felt, tasted, or smelled love but there is no denying its existence. If Plato is right and our senses deceive us. If the physical world were an illusion than everything we perceive from it would be a falsity. And if all we are is ...
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