... seem to seek personal material gains. The virtuous deeds the good man does are done for the sake of the self and for the sake of others as well. By doing these greatest of deeds, the virtuous man, "will both himself profit by doing noble acts, and will benefit his fellows" (Aristotle 237). On the other hand, the bad part of people having self-love is that Aristotle describes them as being narcissistic, egotistic ... Moreover, Kant also had his own good and bad distinguishes of self-love. The good, which he calls self-esteem, is said to be a duty to one's self and is intrinsic to each huma...

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According to Aristotle, virtue primarily involves the use of a person's rationality. Rationality and happiness are activities of the soul, and virtue is the excellence of these activities. Humans are the only life forms that have souls, the source of rationality. Thus, humans have a duty to always use their intellect. Three things are found in the soul: emotions, capacities, and characteristics. Emotions are things ... of the person's virtue. There are two different aspects of the soul: the irrational and the rational. The irrational is present in all living things and responsible for nurture...

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... says that non-believers should not be able to shake the beliefs of Islam. However, I wonder if we should shun the actions of non-believers or the non-believers themselves. This is where, I think, religion must be interpreted on a personal level. "Virtue, intellectual and moral, is gained through teaching and experience." Aristotle tells us this in Happiness and the Good Life. He says that virtue must be achieved ... good as well. The major point he makes in Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals is that there is a general "good will" behind our morals, or at least that is how they sho...

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... says that non-believers should not be able to shake the beliefs of Islam. However, I wonder if we should shun the actions of non-believers or the non-believers themselves. This is where, I think, religion must be interpreted on a personal level. "Virtue, intellectual and moral, is gained through teaching and experience." Aristotle tells us this in Happiness and the Good Life. He says that virtue must be achieved ... good as well. The major point he makes in Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals is that there is a general "good will" behind our morals, or at least that is how they sho...

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... also cleverly switches the roles of vice and virtue from their original meaning to their complete opposites. This chapter of the book changes the relativity of morality and virtue in the light of the political world. His use of rhetoric pursues philosophical terms and motifs in a sense comparative to politics and the life and rule of a prince and ... others to further his own achievement and must be on the lookout for others trying to do the same to him. That is where the cunningness like a fox is beneficial. Machiavelli compares the attributes of a prince to an animal on the same page t...

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... absurd. A person's moral standards should not determine freedom. Freedom should be a right and not based on a moral standard. Aristotle's ideas about women are also rather controversial. He believes that women are fully human. That is, they are not natural slaves and have the full use of reason. The husbands rule over the woman in a marriage is similar to his political rule which is rule over free and equal ... persons, in which both the ruler and the ruled are free and equal. I could not agree with his ... ...

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... must not use a person as a means to an end. A pregnant woman would be acting immorally by aborting the child due to financial incapacity or inability to raise the child. However in the controversial and unfortunate circumstance of rape, the resulting abortion would still be immoral. Irrespective of the circumstances, the termination would be failing to do one's duty to preserve the sanctity of life and would fail the universality test of the first maxim ... , 1997) On the other hand, Aristotle recognizes termination as unvirtuous if the sole reason for the act is for the sake of the act ...

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... rely greatly on the amount of education we have received. In turn it creates our moral judgment and the way we approach certain situations. If religion was introduced to you at a young age, you shape your life under certain ideals. It structures the way you think, the way you act and how your emotions work. Now we must ask, has it been the single reason you will live ... say is happiness. Is religion really happiness? When it could be a fabrication of other people's past experiences that relates them to it. Aristotle once said, "Virtue is a state of character concerned with choice, lyin...

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... for a long time there were people even then that were against it. In the 4th century philosophers such as Aristotle realized that those under pressure are just as likely to give false evidence as true. They also understood that the person being tortured can make false accusations against others in hope of being sooner released. Torture is being used in modern war all over ... , or keep it firmly shut as an absolute ban, as I advocate, the principle of human dignity and correlated rights remains a transcendently important reason to resist the turn toward torture (David P. Gushee). Dehuman...

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... if it is not a person yet, it can become one in time. Therefore how can a foetus be compared to an appendix an appendix or liver. Another strong reason for not treating the foetus with total disregard is taken up by Jane English. She says if you can kill a child 2 months before it is to be born, then what would be ... person. Grisez's adapts Aristotle's argument of "killing the potentiality certainly kills the actuality." And states that: "To kill the foetus is to kill the baby, to kill the child, to kill the young adult, to kill the adult, and thus to kill the older person. For the full ...

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... during the age of Plato, man has thought of himself as superior to other animals (Plato 3-6). Aristotle described man as a "rational animal." And because of the ability to rationalize, the human species has separated itself into its own class with no fellow peers or combatants (Rollin 14-15). The only competition human kind now faces is with itself because of the same trait of rationalization ... humanely (Cohen 105-106). However, Unitarians hold different views on the rights of animals. They reason that since various kinds of research on humans is immoral due to the cause of pain or an i...

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