and unbaptized pagans who are punished with eternity in an inferior form of Heaven. They live in a castle with seven gates which symbolize the seven virtues. Here‚ Dante sees many prominent people from classical antiquity such as Homer‚ Socrates‚ Aristotle‚ Cicero‚ Hippocrates and Julius Caesar. Circle 2: Lust In the Second Circle of Hell‚ Dante and his companion Virgil find people who were overcome by lust. They are punished by being blown violently back and forth by strong winds‚ preventing them
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ARISTOTLE Aristotle was Plato’s greatest student. One of his big contributions to philosophy was the theory of the four kinds of causes. Aristotle’s ideal state would be ruled by the virtuous citizens. Aristotle thinks that a state is an association for allowing each citizen to live well. What was Aristotle’s notion of friendship? It was broader than our modern notion of friendship. It was closer to the idea of people helping each other be virtuous. Aristotle thought the state had a duty to morally
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a. Outline the Key Concepts of the Design Argument [21 marks] The design argument is also referred to at the Teleological Argument stemmed from the Greek work ‘Telos’ meaning end or purpose. It is an ‘A posterior’ argument (from experience) based on our empirical senses and it is synthetic meaning that it is from observation. The argument is also inductive meaning there a number of possible conclusions. The main basis of the Teleological argument is based on a designer commonly known as ‘the
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Epicurean Paradox The problem of evil‚ also known as the Riddle of Epicurus‚ states: If God is willing to prevent evil‚ but is not able to Then He is not omnipotent. If He is able‚ but not willing Then He is malevolent. If He is both able and willing Then whence cometh evil. If He is neither able nor willing Then why call Him God? I can give my opinion as a Christian‚ and can’t speak for other religions. But for us‚ God’s “will” revolves around Who He is. In short‚ God IS Love. We believe
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So claimed Lucretius: Roman poet‚ philosopher and Epicurean. In prolific verse from The Way Things Are‚ Lucretius denied that death was an evil and suggested that death should not be feared at all. Lucretius’ beliefs put him in the same camp as Epicurus‚ whom he mentions in his verse‚ making him known as an Epicurean‚ which I shall define for the purposes of this paper as someone who believes that death is not something to be feared. The opposing camp to this view comprises‚ among others‚ Nagel
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malnourished people. His reddish face is also a result of his hedonistic lifestyle‚ for he loves to drink wine everyday. Chaucer goes on to emphasize the Franklin‘ hedonistic lifestyle: “Always to pleasure would his custom run‚ for he was Epicurus’ own son”(315). Epicurus is a Greek philosopher who taught that happiness is the goal of life; Chaucer’s use of allusion makes it clear that the Franklin has inherited his love of overindulgence from his “father”‚ who thinks that
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terms of itself…not by invocation of the super natural.”(Foster et al. 2008‚ p. 19) The idea that nature is caused by natural events and removal of God from the scientific equation was introduced in the third century BCE by Greek scholars including Epicurus. This foundation was the spring board for the age of Enlightenment. In this period Sir Isaac Newton‚ in spite of his own belief system‚ furthered the cause of naturalism. (p. 67) In later years‚ this lead to presentation of the Theory of Evolution
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history knows of; Leucippus‚ Democritus‚ Epicurus‚ and Lucretius. Almost nothing is known of Leucippus‚ and from what is known it is impossible to distinguish his ideas from those of his predecessors. For Democritus‚ almost all of his work is fragmented cited from another person‚ though it is clear that his ideas differed from Epicurus and Lucretius. Lucretius‚ on the other hand‚ was not even a Greek‚ but a Roman poet who was so enthralled by the ideas of Epicurus that he wrote a poem about them‚ and
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Brad Schwartzman Glenn Tender’s Political Thinking Hans Morgantheau‚ one of the foremost thinkers in political science believed that politics and government is the perpetual struggle for power. The famous political theorist Thucydides agreed when he said‚ the "strong will do what they want‚ the weak will do what the must." Are they right? Is the goal of all humans to seek power in order to dictate their own ideologies and beliefs? I would agree that the tumultuous and evolutionary system
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bad things happen? This reminds me of Epicurus quote around 300 BC‚ "If God is willing to prevent evil‚ but is not able to then He is not omnipotent. If He is able‚ but not willing then He is malevolent. If He is both able and willing then whence cometh evil? If He is neither able nor willing then why call Him God?" (Mastin) This is one of the biggest arguments of Atheists against the existence of God. However‚ if they would research a little farther‚ Epicurus also states that God or Gods‚ whichever
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