... , which thus corrupts the state if practiced on a wide scale (the political state being the prime concern of Plato). In short, such imitation deludes the senses and does not appeal to reason; this claim is based on Plato's categories of the soul. His conceptualization of both the political state and the individual soul separates reason and will (operations of the mind) from pleasure and the passions (occupations of the senses). In the doctrine of the Line the similar attributes of knowledge vs. illusion are ... fiction) justify itself?" (Halliwell p7). In The Poetics Aristotle examines...

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... one of the stars of this era in triggering the explosion of investigation and philosophical teaching known as the Renaissance. Galileo's use of the telescope to view the heavens and the discoveries that followed may have been one of the cataclysm that eventually led to the unraveling of Aristotelian science and in a way of the Roman Catholic Churches influence and domination of scientific teaching. On the other hand the lack of resolution of the Churches role in science set the stage for centuries of conflict between the ... ). This is truly a modern view! Drake points out that Galileo, ...

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... our human nature to question; Plato considered the bringing of our existence, the nature of reality, and the notion of the soul. As humans we also seek answers; however the common principle underpinning all religion is the human instinctive intension to seek and possess the ability to influence our fortune on this world and the next. It is notably the reason the Ancient Greeks built temples and made offerings to ... is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it."17 This corresponds to the whipping, trial and execution of Jesus in Christianity, as Jesus ascended into heaven out of la...

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... odds with conceptions drawn up from regular experience. In relation to Aristotle and Plato, these three relations are changed which we will see. More often than not Plato's dialogues often bring on a dismissal of doubts concerning the divine. He advocates and demonstrates extensive revaluations of the poetic accounts of the time of the Olympian gods, and from this he composed his own reflections to ... the enlightenment a new philosophy of religion came about, one which was not connected with metaphysics or philosophical theology. It questioned just how to be reasonable. much religion cou...

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... "without restriction as to reason". Induced abortion has a long history. They have been performed by various methods, including herbal medicines, the use of sharpened tools, physical trauma, and other traditional methods since ancient times. The laws surrounding abortion, how frequently they are performed, and their cultural and religious status vary a great deal around the world. In some contexts, abortion is legal based on specific conditions, such as ... Egypt with its Ebers Papyrus, and the Roman Empire in the time of Juvenal . Aristotle, in his treatise on government Politics, cond...

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... be economically competitive - even though economic competitiveness is not the highest value? Americans experience difficulties controlling the use of various technologies on a daily basis - from limiting the TV viewing of children to attempts at halting the hurried pace of high-tech communication. Although an ethical analysis of technological decision making has begun to emerge among specialized ... on the natural environment at both the local and even the global level. Prior to the modern period, nature served as a fundamental touchstone for ethics. From Aristotle through Cicero to Thom...

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... was not always used to persuade listeners this way. Long ago, around 400 B.C., philosophers like Plato and Aristotle studied the art of rhetoric, and realized its true linguistic power. Yet instead of using this power for their own gain, Plato and Aristotle wrote about and discussed the virtuous use of rhetoric. They demonstrated why rhetoric ought to lead to truth rather than to persuade toward falsities. This is ... that taking a non-lover was better than taking a lover. Lysius carefully crafted his argument. He passionately explained why lack of passion is best in a relationship, des...

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... for evaluating human acts, choices, or life plans or as the object of maximizing calculations. For this reason, Dewey's pluralistic welfare consequentialism was rather vaguely grouped with other non-maximizing "consequentialists" such as Aristotle and David Hume. So long as ethical theories were necessarily either consequentialist or deontological, there was of course little choice. But as moral philosophers have come to recognize virtue ethics as ... in the two editions of Ethics. Although on the basis of these, Dewey is commonly credited with defining virtues as habits of action, the ...

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... . For example, while Plato basically disagreed with suicide, he felt it should be an option in extreme circumstances, such as in cases of unmanageable suffering. On the other hand, Plato's student Aristotle believed that there was no justifiable reason to commit suicide. The debate still rages today as terminally ill people fight for what they feel is their right to put an end to their suffering ... suggests, "Palliative care quality could be increased with the use of complimentary medicines, the offering of nutritional care and discussions with someone interested in the mind and the spi...

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... we must first learn about the political environment of our forefathers and the history of this debate. The right to keep and bear arms has a long history in civilization. The Greek philosopher Aristotle felt that bearing arms was necessary for true citizenship and participation in the political system. Plato believed in a hierchial monarchy with few liberties and saw the disarming of the populace as essential to the maintenance of his orderly and autocratic ... pass laws regulating the sale and use of handguns and helped to bring about the first efforts toward national gun control. The ...

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... that therefore they are not intelligent. The tests that we use to measure the intelligence of machines compare machines' intelligence with humans and mostly focus on what humans are capable of, ignoring machines' abilities. We are in need of clear criterias to test the intelligence of machines if we want to properly define the term Artificial Intelligence. What are the characteristics that we should look into machines ... , as well as theories developed by Aristotle. Some mechanical devices made in the eighteenth century mimicked living things. One example of those machines was a mechani...

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... as frequently happens) people go through life having dogmatic beliefs and never question them or try to understand their reason for being. In short it is the whole nonmaterial development of a person in all the intellectual and spiritual (non religious sense) aspects of life. There are several philosophers whom I had similar views to: Jose Ortega y Gasset, Karl Marx, Abraham ... , and through labor, man, with the use of his creativity distinguishes himself from other men and becomes an individual. Specialization dehumanizes man by making his labor faculty the same as that of other men, it...

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... be economically competitive - even though economic competitiveness is not the highest value? Americans experience difficulties controlling the use of various technologies on a daily basis - from limiting the TV viewing of children to attempts at halting the hurried pace of high-tech communication. Although an ethical analysis of technological decision making has begun to emerge among specialized ... on the natural environment at both the local and even the global level. Prior to the modern period, nature served as a fundamental touchstone for ethics. From Aristotle through Cicero to Thom...

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... , its relation to thinking becomes a central concern. Several cultures have independently viewed the main function of language as the expression of thought. Ancient Indian grammarians speak of the soul apprehending things with the intellect and inspiring the mind with a desire to speak; and in the Greek intellectual tradition Aristotle declared, "Speech is the representation of the experiences of the mind- (On Interpretation). Such an attitude passed into Latin theory and thence into medieval doctrine. Medieval grammarians ... persistent recognition of the power of language is apparent i...

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