... seek honor purely for its own sake, we also seek it as a measure of our worth. But happiness is sought for its own sake. Aristotle sees wealth as merely useful, it is not sought for itself but for what it can be used to achieve. Wealth is a mean for something else, a ... an emotion or desire is said to be the mean between the extremes of excess and deficiency. Thus, for every feeling you have, you can be virtuous (if your character is such that you feel it in the appropriate way), or you can exhibit the vice of excess ... Surliness Friendly Civility Obsequiousness Ironical Depreciation...

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... and that soul is "divine" and "immortal". This is important because from Socrates, Plato learned about body and soul and this education was the groundwork for Plato's philosophy. Platonic spiritualism is a philosophy founded by Plato that emphasizes soul over body. On the other hand Aristotle (384-322b.c.) was a student ... people of the time believed strongly in Platonic Spiritualism. At around 1500, people began to think that they wanted to do more than prepare for death by putting faith in front of everything else. This began a period referred to as the Renaissance. Renaissance means...

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... requiring high skills, may be assessed as harmful. That's why, an important task of government is to determine, what should be a person's work. For centuries, Plato's concept of ideal' state has been many times criticized for abstractness, utopian character and totalitarianism. Plato himself realized that idea/ ideal of any object could never match its real embodiment. However, he thought definition of a problem about ... Publica- contains. In Aristotle's view the function of ethics is to unite different aims of human behavior: to define what is Good, and what conditions for its realiza...

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... To remove from religion all beliefs; and then to identify it with -pure feeling, is to destroy its fundamental character as rational. Without say the belief in friendly spirits, for example, there can be no religion corresponding to the stage of animism, and such a belief constitutes the theology ... way a person lives from day to day by giving that person hope, belief, and reason to exist in this world. To a very extreme measure it can be maybe argued that only rarely that religion can be a persons assets, family, or other individuals or possessions, it can be many things ... in fact s...

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... Their souls. Socrates wanted people to worry about their connection to God as Socrates heavily believed in monotheism. Socrates was famous for the Socratic method which is a form of inquiry and debate between individuals with opposing viewpoints based on asking and answering questions ... for everything. Plato's main doctrine is that the world that appears to our senses is in some way defective and filled with error, but there is a more real and perfect realm, populated by entities called "forms" or "ideas" that are eternal, changeless, and in some sense indicative of the structure and ...

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