- Aristotle Growing up, every child wishes to live a life of happiness and prosperity. ... This is what we all envision as a good life but as Aristotle puts it, to have a good life it's not all about wealth and power but a more sophisticated theory to a good life. ... So try to become powerful because power is what there is. " It is in my opinion that Aristotle's theory is correct, that a well-lived life is an active life of doing what is virtuous or excellent for humans to do. ... I've put myself in a supportive community of fellow friends and professors that are willing to ...

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A good life for right now is to be able to have a happy life. ... Are society shows us what we should do and should not to do live a happy life. ... Augustine is extremely thankful for having been given the opportunity to live with God. ... Augustine started out in childhood with a restless heart because he had to live in two different worlds. ... It seems as if Augustine felt that if he were to live in both of these worlds, his life would turn out to be nothing. ...

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Then I plan to move on from my high school life into college. ... My family will live in Paramus, just as I have since I was two years old. ... At this point in my life my kids will be my top priority but I will enjoy things such as dining out with my husband, playing pool and going to the movies. ... Immediately after I retire I will buy another house in Florida and live there during the winter. ... I feel these aspects and goals will lead me to a long happy life....

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He declared that governments must not violate what he considered human rights--life, education, religion, and reproduction. ... For Aristotle, ethics and politics both study practical knowledge, that is, knowledge that enables people to act properly and live happily. ... Thus, according to Aristotle, a happy life for human beings is a life governed by reason." ... "Aristotle tells us much about what the good life is like. ... Prudence is the ability to know what we should do by figuring out which course of action would lead to a good life." ...

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Values are something that is important in life. ... They taught me many things about life that I would take with me for the rest of my life. ... There would be no point in life if there was no memory for what would be the reason for continuing to live without a memory of people and things that are most precious to you. ... Precious memories are a great value to me in life for I depend on the many happy events that happen in my life to go through the tougher or sadder times of life. ... Perfection is created by the values of life which one has....

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My ethics are my morals, my rules for living and to me they are the one thing that I think will get us through the other side of life with integrity, honour and having done the things in life that we've have aimed and we"re meant to do. My rules for living are to love others as I love myself, to live with honesty, and so form trusting relationships and above all else to love God. ... These relationships do not fall out of the sky, but they are things that we build up through life. ... Not only does honesty bring trust but it gives integrity to what ever we say which in life is very imp...

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My ethics are my morals, my rules for living and to me they are the one thing that I think will get us through the other side of life with integrity, honour and having done the things in life that we've have aimed and we"re meant to do. My rules for living are to love others as I love myself, to live with honesty, and so form trusting relationships and above all else to love God. ... These relationships do not fall out of the sky, but they are things that we build up through life. ... Not only does honesty bring trust but it gives integrity to what ever we say which in life is very imp...

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People have been philosophizing about the pursuit of a perfect life since the beginning of humanity, as we know it. ... Happiness is what Aristotle attributed to be the base of a perfect life. ... The last trait to which Aristotle attributes to a perfect life is intellectual goodness. ... He says that intellectual is divine compared with the life of a human creature. ... For instance Aristotle said that friends are needed to be truly happy, yet I am sure that there are hermits who live alone in there house that are truly happy. ...

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All the people of the city have their maxims or conducts of living to have the good life. ... Each class in some way uses each of these to achieve living the good life. ... Plato tells through ten books of the Republic, what the maxims are in each class to living the good life. ... No matter what class a person is in, there are ways of achieving the good life. ... It is how you govern your life that determines whether you live the good life....

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All the people of the city have their maxims or conducts of living to have the good life. ... Each class in some way uses each of these to achieve living the good life. ... Plato tells through ten books of the Republic, what the maxims are in each class to living the good life. ... No matter what class a person is in, there are ways of achieving the good life. ... It is how you govern your life that determines whether you live the good life. ...

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The novel, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, depicts the life and adventures of Benjamin Franklin. ... Ben Franklin had strived to achieve moral perfection when he states, "I wish'd to live without committing any fault at any time; I would conquer all that either natural inclination, custom, or company might lead me into....

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Many of her siblings still live there. ... I have an example of my life so clearly as if it happened yesterday. ... We all know that life continuously teaches us several lessons along the course of time. ...

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How should a person live their life? How do you live your life? ... " Confucius thought the best way to live your life is to not worry about money. ... Also, one can examine how a person should live their life. Confucians live the better life because they teach self-discipline and you can learn a lot from that. ...

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Aristotle writes that the life of study is more self-sufficient than any other kind of life (1177a). ... If people who live the life of study need others very little, how do they fit in and contribute to communities held together by mutual need (Book V, Chapter V, Section XIII)? ... That's because another party need his self-sufficient to live their lives being wise or virtuous. ... The people who live the life of study fit in and contribute with others by doing virtuous actions. ... Since people who live the life of study already have happiness, their contribution would seem to be to tr...

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We should live with respect and compassion for everyone. We need to have integrity, be able to work hard, and live a life that will be an example to others. ... Honesty is being able to live a life of no lies and no masks. ... I do not live two lives. ... People are drawn to someone who can live an honest life. ...

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In "How Are We To Live," Peter Singer suggests that people should take an ethical approach to find deeper satisfactions in life. ... These people reject Rand's Objectivism philosophy because they are not independent thinkers, unable or unwilling to see the truth of new ideas, who make real life decisions based on what others think about their perception about life. ... Roark achieves the ultimate commercial success and happiness in life by devoting his own thinking and judgment. Rand believes that moral virtue is a requirement of practical success in every endeavor of life. .....

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This determination is what has helped the honor of chivalry to live on today. ... By showing respect and honoring people chivalry has lived through the ages. The ideals of chivalry have lived through the Middle Ages and have influenced how we live today. ... While chivalry has changed sense it started it still has the same basic ideals and principals that made it an important basis in life. ...

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This is where his idea of self sufficiency comes into play, giving two main rules to live by, that (1) " live to extent which even when isolated makes life desirable and lacking in nothing." ... As humans, we develop wisdom to help guide us to a good life. ... We enjoy it as a means to activity; but it seems that the happy life is a life of virtue, and such a life is serious, it is not one of mere amusement. ... Everyone needs to live in moderation. ... He modernized his classes, studies, work and social life. ...

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I believe that it is important to have the value of respect throughout one's life. ... Every body needs courage at one time in their life also. ... It gets me very upset when people from other schools or friends of the students who live here come into our dorms and mess everything up. ... This is disrespectful to the students who live here, and when it comes down to the damages, we are expected to pay for them. ... I know that along the path of my life I am going to be a part of many different communities, from work to where I live, to where my kids go to school. ...

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When I think about my values and how it had affected my life as a whole. ... Determination is something that makes people want to do something and make themselves better in the world that they live on. ... Self-conscious makes people aware of their position and themselves in the world that they live in. ... Every day I face with self-awareness that makes me want to changed myself and that is why I changed every day that I live. ... This is what shapes the life of people and greater the quality of one's life. ...

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(Winny, 84 ) His determination to live his life rooted in chivalry, following chivalric virtues, was admirable. ... The Knight not having a prologue for himself shows, once again, that he is devoted to living his life as an honorable knight. ... The Knight's tale suggests how he has gone through his life following the proper form of a knight. ... The Knight's Tale explained a lot about who he was and how he lived. Many of the details in the Knight's tale prove that living a chivalrous life was the Knight's priority and he molded his life practicing those virtues. ...

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He lived in 551-479BC, yet countless people still live by his teachings today. ... Though both teachers lived in two very different places in two very different times, much of the groundwork; the basics of their teachings (as well as some of their themes) are surprisingly similar given the diversity of the societies they lived in. Both aimed to improve society by teaching people to live morally good lives. ... Where Confucius sees no problem with the possession of worldly goods provided that they are acquired honestly, Jesus preaches that one must shun them completely and live a humble, abs...

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Friendship Throughout our life we get involved into different kinds of relationships. ... A true person would never choose to live without friends even if he had all the other goods of life. ... Friendship is the stronghold for community, family, and married life. In all times of life people need friends. ... Nothing is more precious than have a true friendship because we can't live without it....

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Essentially, one should live well on the journey to be virtuous. ... On the contrary, living well, according to Aristotle, is living a life with virtue in mind. ... Instead of being able to live comfortably, excess is needed to appease. ... The superficial happiness of the pursuit of an abundance of wealth comes to an end when the life ends. The rewards reaped from living well and contributing to the common good begin when the life ends. ...

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Yet the truth and importance of his words resonate today when they are heard, because Confucius" teachings developed in reaction to the times in which he lived - and our times are very much like his. ... He was born into the family of K"ung and was given the name Ch"iu; in later life he was called "Master Kung"; K"ung Fu-tzu, from which the Latin form, Confucius, is derived. ... Since he lived in a war-torn society, Confucius was largely concerned with improving government and society. ... By looking at his countries past trials, he developed teachings designed to restore harmony to the soc...

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