The actions of men carry no intrinsic value; instead they only have weight when they are applied within an institution. ... In fact, the entire content and structure of law and justice hinges on the idea that people must be within its scope, because without a commonwealth (the abolishment of the state of nature) or property, there is no grounds for there being law (90). ... Ultimately, the people are formed into miniature versions of the state: the state seeking the highest goodness and the people being habituated into seeking these exact same things through the law.Quite o...

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Citizenship, is perhaps the most noble activity that exemplifies man as a political animal or, in other words, "political activity" within a self-sufficient, developed state. ... The gift of speech enabling men to indicate "what is just and what is unjust" coupled with the inclination towards dialogue of such a nature is, perhaps the basis of the state. ... Aristotle informs us that the association within the state "is the end of those others whatever is the end- product that is what we call its nature" and that "It is clear then that the state is both natural and prior to the individual" ...

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In a political sense, this aspect of Aristotle's view on citizenship is not particularly followed in the polis or city-state societies of today. ... According to Aristotle, women were inferior to men in many aspects of life including their connection to nature. Aristotle claimed women were emotional and non-rational whereas men were linked with reason and were assigned to preside over women. ... Aristotle did not state that women were not citizens, but rather citizens with an inferior role to those roles of men. ... Aristotle believed that slaves played particular roles within the poli...

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Aristotle Consider Aristotle to be one of the three greatest thinkers of all time. ... The first to develop deductive inference, Aristotle defined syllogism as "a discourse in which certain things having been stated, something else follows of necessity from their being so"(Charles 24). ... Each could be reformulated into a basic case and the conclusion came from within the question. ... Aristotle once said that, ""the basis of democratic state is liberty,"" and he portrayed his belief to the Athenians (1). ... The basis of a democratic state is liberty. ...

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The state existed in nature prior to its discovery by man, and "a human being is by nature a political animal, and anyone who is without a city-state" is not by definition a man (Aristotle, 4). Even in his most primal form, the very nature of man drives him to realize his role within a given polis. ... The idea of commonwealth was based on the belief that without private ownership, competition within the community would be eliminated. ... Aristotle argues that the more unified a city-state is, the more it will resemble a household, and eventually an individual. ... (Aristotle, 29) Therefore th...

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As stated before, Happiness is only a loose translation, and human flourishing comes closer as a direct translation. ... Politicians could achieve Eudaemonia through their work through the state and charity towards there fellow man, and Aristotle always had an admiration for politicians, calling Politics the highest of all disciplines, and stating, "to seek good for one person is satisfactory, but to seek good for a nation is godlike" Aristotle of course also has a great deal of respect for philosophers, and is not just patting himself on the back. Philosophers, he stated, exist for the...

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Equalities of the People - Aristotle vs. ... Aristotle discusses oligarchy and democracy. ... Yet, even within these few, there is inequality. ... Nor was there equality among all men. ... How can Jefferson state that all men are created equal, when he himself is a slave owner? ...

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As a result of the translation from Chinese to English, did not directly come out and state his perspective on ethical practices was, exactly what he felt virtue was. ... Aristotle states "the good is rightly observed to be that at which all things aim" (Aristotle, 350 B.C., 1:1). ... Aristotle believed that the benefit of the state should always be placed for the sake of the individual, a particular mindset that he received as a result of listening to and, to a degree, following, the teachings of Plato (Aristotle, 350 B.C.). ... Aristotle likewise believed that a particular classifi...

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The constant switch between the dream state and present reality can be compared to a chorus in that the characters in the dream sequences tell the stories of the events prior to the murders. ... He says that man "learns his first lessons through imitation, and all men find pleasu! ... They exhibit the cleverness and strength of will that Aristotle associated only with men. ... This is applicable to plays within the 20th century more so than say Shakespeare or Marlowe. (16) The events covered in the course of the play span a period of a couple of days. ... The definition of tragedy in ...

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Although Socrates, Plato's and Aristotle's political views of the State are similar, Plato's view is more rational than Socrates and Aristotle's in the sense that he created an ideal State. ... Within the State Socrates believed that there would be a division of labor for the provision of food, shelter and clothing. ... As Socrates stated above within the State you would specialize in one thing only, while a different individual would specialize in something else and this would allow the quality and the quantity of the product to increase. ... He thought that within the...

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All these distinctions between literature and non-literature: personal expression, realization, lack of practical purpose and fictionality are restatements within a framework of semantic analysis of age old aesthetic terms such as: unity in variety, aesthetic distance, framing, invention and imitation. ... Such portrayals provide justification for men to commit such acts themselves, and therefore these misrepresentations of gods and heroes are harmful to a general populace. ... Imitation proper appears in the Republic in Book III, where Plato begins to consider the more complicated case of ...

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Aristotle's disagreed with Plato in regards to allowing one particular class to govern the state politically for indefinite period of time. ... He feels Plato's structure of classes is politically incorrect for the state. ... He decided to express in the "Republic" how men should conduct it self in a perfect society and what attitude they should posses. ... Justice is the political good within the polis, and it must promote the common interest of the people of the state. ... He believes that if a revolution occurred it would happened within the corridors of the palace, hence palace r...

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Aristotle, though the majority of his ideas are sound, is incorrect in his dispositions on women, because, as Plato implies, the diversity offered by an equal share in the state between the sexes creates a stronger body. Plato's most apt pupil, Aristotle, while agreeing with his master that women are by nature inferior to men, disagrees quite plainly about the equality of gender roles. ... The male is able to concoct, formulate and to ejaculate the sperm which contains the origin of the form [of the being to be born]-I do not mean here the material element out of which it is born rese...

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According to Rom Harre and Gerrod Parrot, author of The Emotions, Aristotle theory of emotion: " incorporates moral, social and cognitive considerations within a larger naturalistic framework. It is a theory about the place of emotion within the overall development of personality or what Aristotle called character (Harre and Parrot 22). ... He suffered so much pain that he went into a state of depression. ... This is opposite of the thinking of Plato and Aristotle, who both believed emotions were controlled by the intellect of the mind as stated before. Between the three men there is mor...

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Bad men on the other hand have no reliability in friendship, because they do not even stay true to their own characters; but they can be friends for a short time, while they enjoy each other with their evil ways. . ... But I am having a hard time with what Aristotle is saying because his highest form of friendship is superior to the rest of life's pleasures, such as, the joy of give and take that are found in our friendships or the pleasure of what he calls "bad men- and how they help each other forget who they or we have become. . ... The whole story within Crito and Socrates has to ...

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The Greek philosopher Aristotle ( 384-322 B.C.) was the first to define democracy in his argument "A Definition of Justice", in which he established the foundations and ideas of a just state and public governance. ... As Aristotle asserts,"[T] he end of the state is a good life, and the state is the union of families and villages in a perfect and self sufficing life, by which we mean a happy and honorable life." ... The knowledgeable few are no entitled to dictate what the rest of the state will do, given that is the state the one that will be affected by the law. ... The heart of men is easil...

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Callicles went on to say that "good" men are filled with virtue and goodness, in a sense pleasure- whereas "bad" men are filled with cowardice and pain. Socrates countered this by stating the obvious that the lowliest thief and the most magnificent king feel pleasure and pain in roughly equal proportions. Because of this definition, "good" men are not always pleasant and "bad" men are not always aggravated, and Socrates dismissed it. ...

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With the recent popularization of feminism, many of the social critiques in modern music discuss inequalities between men and women, in hopes of educating the public. ... Aristotle argues that illicit generalizations, or "maxims that state as a universal truth what is not always true," can arouse anger in the audience (Aristotle in Cooper 154). ... He argues that in both enthymemes and stereotypes, "hearers are expected to finish processing the information and concept within themselves" (Boss 24). ... Aristotle states that although there are different kinds of slight, in al...

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Aristotle considered the aim of a tragedy is to being about a catharsis within the audience. ... It is an emotional response that produces a state of relief for the audience. ... Another component Aristotle believed a tragic hero should possess is a tragic flaw. ... In a tragedy the protagonist is often having a conflict within his inner self, trying to bring out the good or evil within his personality and in a tragedy the protagonist used his greater evil making him a tragic hero and bringing about his own downfall. ... Aristotle was a famous philosopher and had many theories on what characte...

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Men who traveled to new lands wrote stories about the people they encountered there. ... To the Europeans, "These foreign peoples embodied an innocent nobility which they deemed lacking within their over civilized culture"[ CITATION Sco99 l 1033 ] Many of the stories spoke of monsters and marvels, such as those written by Pliny the Elder. ... For example, Pliny quotes Aristotle in his book when writing about one of the people he encountered, which where half male and half female, Aristotle stated that, "their right breast is that of a male and the left that of a female"[ CI...

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" Dante also had the influence of Aristotelian thought on him, notably in the content of the moral structure of hell, which explains his reaction upon the sight of Aristotle (Raffa). ... Aristotle, for example, defines human reason as the highest state man can achieve without God and observes that it distinguishes man from other life forms, but Dante provides a modified explanation that a man of reason cannot achieve a greater state without God's glory; by placing man before God, Aristotle can achieve no greater with human reason alone but the pain of no hope in the afterlife (Aristo...

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Plato begins by stating that women are in many ways superior to men via weaving and pancake making. ... Ultimately, he brings Glaucon to the conclusion "in the administration of the State neither a woman as a woman, nor a man as a man has any special function, but the gifts nature are equally diffused in both sexes; all the pursuits of men are the pursuits of woman also"(The Republic). ... Therefore, women too maintain the Guardianship qualities necessary to rule Schneider 6 the State. ... S: men and women of the State should be as good as good as possible? ... In the Republic State crea...

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Aquinas in his Summa Theologica stated that "Lord of death and life, for by his decree both the sinful and the righteous die." (Summa Theologica) Aristotle believes that the good must be something final and self-sufficient. ... In medicine this is health in every action and pursuit the end; for it is the sake of this that all men do whatever else they do. ... (The Basic Works of Aristotle ,168) Aristotle is essentially telling his readers the basic function of doctors. ... Every doctor can tell stories of patients expected to die within days who surprise everyone with their ext...

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