public opinions combine to choose leaders with respect to the social structure of a particular society‚ taking into consideration the social laws‚ rules‚ traditions‚ norms‚ values‚ and culture. Plato and Aristotle tow of the most influential figures in Greek philosophy. Both Plato and Aristotle were big critics of democracy as a poor form of government. Aristotle’s views about democracy hold that democratic office will cause corruption in the people‚ if the people choose to redistribute the wealth
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Political Thinking POL200Y1 September-17-2008 Thucydides as historian and theorist Athens and Sparta were the superpower of Greece Athens and Sparta led victory for Greece against Persian Athens are sea power and Sparta is on land After that Athens began to take power/empire over Greece He didn’t record exactly what happened but recreated them - moments He included his large/general judgements about human nature About human nature Democracy as a form of political regime
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aRISTOTLE | Principle of Ethics | | | | 5/8/2011 | [Type the abstract of the document here. The abstract is typically a short summary of the contents of the document. Type the abstract of the document here. The abstract is typically a short summary of the contents of the document.] | A married couple‚ both addicted to drugs‚ is unable to care for their infant daughter. She is taken from them by court order and placed in a foster home. The years pass. She comes to regard her foster
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Aristotle provides the teleological approach of how to live well in his collection of lectures‚ Nicomachean Ethics. In Book II of Nicomachean Ethics‚ Aristotle presents his definition of virtue in which it is "a kind of mean" (N.E. 129). According to Aristotle‚ moral virtue is a means to an end‚ happiness. By using Sophocles’s Antigone‚ I will support Aristotle’s theory of virtue in which he reasons it to be a state of character between two extremes. A virtue that remains relevant today as it did
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Aristotle/Plato Essay What is the purpose of an examined life? The examined life is a life that is thought through logically and has a clear and distinct view on the world and everything that makes up the world. An examined life also has a logical purpose and goal to strive for and achieve. Not only is this life preferable but also it is necessary‚ which is shown through Plato’s writings in the Five Dialogues‚ that “the unexamined life is not worth living for men” (41‚ Five Dialogues). Without
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According to Aristotle the good life is the happy life‚ as happiness is an end in itself. He also believes that all actions aim at the good and that the good is happiness. I believe ‘some’ of Aristotle’s views on the good life are correct but I believe sometimes we can sacrifice our own happiness for someone else’s happiness and the people that don’t have the power to reason do have souls and they are still as human as everybody else. In order to make my point I will first have to explain Aristotle’s
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Aristotle discusses in Book 2 Chapter 6 about Shame and Shamelessness. He defines shame as “pain or disturbance in regard to bad things‚ whether present‚ past‚ or future‚ which seem likely to involve us in discredit; and shamelessness as contempt or indifference in regard to these same bad things” (Aristotle‚ pg. 85). Aristotle makes an intriguing conclusion when he says that if we take these definitions as previously stated above to be true‚ we feel same at such bad things as we think are disgraceful
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DiMarco Politics and the English Language Answers In Orwell’s essay Politics and the English Language‚ Orwell expresses his raw opinion on the deterioration of the English language and how politics is a cause for the “vagueness and incompetence” that writing has succumbed too. Though the title of the essay introduces politics first and the English language last‚ Orwell’s thesis seems to consist of neither; it consists of the silliness of modern human writing. He states in the
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purely entertainment like they should have been. Today’s societies are more dependent on politics and therefore so are sports and the athletes competing‚ sometimes even without their own will. In various occasions across the world politics was the main reason for athletes to withdraw from athletic events such as the world cup‚ Olympics‚ and any other worldwide or region wide competitions. On the other hand politics sometimes are the reason that some teams re-establish themselves and get back into the
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Lauren LaRue Philosophy 14 March 2012 Minor Essay No. 2 TOPIC A Think about one or more of your friendships in light of what Aristotle writes about friendship in the Nicomachean Ethics. Write an essay that reflects on both -- your friendship(s) in terms of Aristotle’s ideas and/or Aristotle’s ideas in terms of your friendship(s). You may refer to relevant sections of the Ethics by line number as needed‚ but the main idea here is to reflect on your real life experience of friendship and
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