Given their singular significance to the development of Western culture, it is strangely appropriate that Jesus and Socrates led similar lives. ... What links Jesus and Socrates in our imagination is much more than a comparison of their lives and doctrines. It is the recognition that each one calls us to a life both difficult and pure, together with the nagging suspicion that it may not be the same life. ... - what path shall I follow in life? ... Jesus and Socrates had lived similar lives but this is not all that was similar. ...

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He also believed that the government function was not to directly interfere in the people's lives - "government no longer seeks to promote the good or moral life. ... Furthermore, the liberal state also gave people hope about a better life in the future. ... If they tried to work harder and harder, their life would be better. These ideas created motivation for people to strive to improve their lives. Not only did it make people's lives better, it also made the nation stronger....

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The apparently inevitable conclusion is that the best man (and the one who lives best) would be the one who appears to be just, but manages to practice injustice when it suits his purposes. ... He is being tacitly asked to defend himself, and to defend the philosophic life, the pursuit of virtue as knowledge, all over again. ...

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We are more willing to risk the lives of our people, to spread our beliefs as humans. ... Even our own constitution states that all men are allowed there own beliefs and certain ways of life, but we still find it necessary to Americanize every other country in the world to ensure our own safety. ... Is losing 1.3 million lives for something truly safety?. ... America should be known as a country to keep its word to help support all types of life, not to take over all types of life. ... In conclusion to my argument I would just like to state that a human life is much more worthy than a hum...

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The other group, lead by Jack, represented hatred, violence and utter lack of regard for human life. ... The boys were ruled by emotion, especially in the case of Ralph who was trying to escape with his life. ... Others would also be living in constant fear and anxiety for their lives and the lives of others. ... Freedom is one of the most important things that a person has in their life. Without freedom you have no life, just like the Jews that lived in Germany when Hitler reigned. ...

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The third and final question is why is the philosopher's life a better life than that of the tyrant. ... A tyrannical man can be expected to live one of two lives at any point in time. ... Now after figuring out what type of life a tyrant can be expected to live, we must decide on what grounds is the philosophers' life a better life than that of a tyrant. ... He asked Socrates to prove that a man who leads a just life, with none of the rewards that come with being just, would live a happier life than a man who lives an unjust life, with all the benefits of being just, and none of ...

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The government should have less control of our social lives and concentrate on national issues such as trade and relations with other countries. Since it is difficult to defend all of the libertarian's views, I will stress my opposition of the federal government's involvement in our social lives. ... Life, liberty, and property, our Natural Rights, should allow us to do as we please without the government's interference. ... I believe people should assume responsibility for themselves because they are in control of their own lives, and government should not interfere with th...

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The aim of this paper is to discuss how the absence of government would affect people`s lives, and whether it would contribute to a better and stable situation, and create the necessary environment for prosperity, or the vice versa. ... So in this essay I am going to argue against anarchism because in that situation people`s lives and their wealth would at every moment be endangered, or as Thomas Hobbes stated that the life would be "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short, " and one other reason is the failure of philosophers to clearly explain how would people make decisions and coordinate...

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Individualism became crucial to people's lives throughout the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries because of the key social movements and changing political structures. The enlightenment was one of the key eras that challenging the role of religion in people's lives and therefore brought fundamental change. ... The idea that it was natural for an individual to assert his own liberty of life and property was a complete change of pace from the old way of thinking. ... In conclusion, life in society for an individual went through many changes from 1750 to 1950 and the role of change ...

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Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, two British philosophers, have spent a great deal of their lives thinking and arguing extensively on this subject. ... Instrumental power, are the abilities humans acquired as they progressed in life, such as wealth, friends and status. ... For many people, to gain power throughout the course of a person's life, it is a sign of advancement in life, either through individual talent or through other methods. ...

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Virtues on Self Government Born in Concord, Massachusetts, the popular Transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau lived a very simple life which led him to his popular essay "On Civil Disobedience." Thoreau lived a very unique life and he based his writings on many of his fufullling principles. ... With the United States government over looking foreign affairs, one must ask if it is our duty or our right to decide how citizens of other countries live their lives. ...

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"As individuals express their life, so they are. ... Mill is of the strong opinion that people are in control of their lives, and have the right to make life choices, and pursue whatever life paths they wish. ... He has a conscious life activity. ... (Porter/Marx, p549) People give into materialism, and abandon the reality and truths in their lives. ... Marx feels that society as a collective is the determining means for individual's lives and well being. ...

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Nearly all the objects and spaces we use in our public and private lives were designed by art and design professionals. ... "Art that is visually attractive and well crafted can "lift us above the stream of life," as a noted Aesthetician once put it. ... Art is important in our everyday life. ... The world is made up with art, so art is necessary in our life, because for many it is who they are while others just love its expressions....

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"The unexamined life is not worth living."" For many these are just words, but for one man it was a way of life. ... His life was a constant quest for excellence of being, wisdom and of morality of the soul. ... He set an example of how to live your life in both life and death. ... One chooses to belong or reside in a state and in doing so one must devote oneself to the state in which he lives. ...

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As far as we know, humans have always felt the need to examine everything they meet or experience in life. ... Socrates said that the "unexamined life is not worth living for a human being" (West et al. 92). ... Another facet of our lives that we have benefitted from philosophizing is science and technology. ... On the other hand, science has been hijacked by the politicians that would have us change the way we live our lives in order to rely on them as a means of survival and redemption for ruining the earth. ... As Socrates said, "The unexamined life is not worth living for a...

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In the authors books all of the aspects of life are demonstrated and the total view was an unattractive image for the leaders. ... The reason I chose to do a letter it because it allows me to show the government's large and influential part in the people's lives and as well as discus the cultural aspects. ... Her book is a fiction with many real life situations and probable events for a person of Vietnam in the 1980's. ... It would allow the students of today to better understand their countries history and how it affected the people's lives. ... At each time in the charac...

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Langston Hughes's poems, "Children's Rhymes-, "Cross-, and "Dream Deferred- express his dream of liberty and justice achieving a better life for African Americans during the 1920s. ... In his poem "Dream Deferred-, Langston Hughes speaks of his dream for a better life and the inability to achieve it. ... Because of his willingness to stand up for what he believed, African Americans today live better lives incorporated with liberty and justice....

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All men were born with the same rights; those of life, liberty, property and the pursuit of happiness. Even though nature may be a state of true liberty, it does not give one the right or allow another to harm these rights of life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness. ... Locke does question why men who have complete freedom and power over their lives would allow themselves to be governed. ...

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Each must fear for his life at all times, and even sleep, which is not optional for individuals, carries a risk of death. ... In most cases, governments use the knowledge that people want to live to their advantage by threatening lives (death penalty). ...

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In other words people in general live their lives in-groups (i.e.) family units. ... It is not only important to know these things about the human race, but also to understand how these facts of life will effect you, in any given situation. ...

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According to John Locke, a group of people forms a political society by banding together to preserve or protect their lives, their freedoms, and their property (Bennett 40). ... However, when man does not act according to the state of nature given to him by his creator, but instead "lives by some rule other than that of reason and common fairness (which is the standard that God has set for the actions of men, for their mutual security); and so he becomes dangerous to mankind because he has disregarded and broken the tie that is meant to secure them from injury and violence.... He said, &q...

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A time of "no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short".1 Because man's natural state is so debased, Hobbes applied a authoritarian view of social contract. ... Also, natural law obligated that "no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions". 3 The state formed by the social contract was guided by the natural laws, which guaranteed those inalienable rights. ... An Essay on Man, a poetic summary of current philosophical speculation projects...

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Each woman seems to personify a specific stereotypical American women outlook and attitude about life and political philosophies. ... Louise has a cynical outlook on life based on her experiences. ... But an incident that occurs at a roadhouse and the decision they make afterwards changes the course of their lives. ... Thelma and Hobbes's Total Sovereign Authority Thelma's character seems to have accepted total sovereign authority, similar to Hobbes's perspective on the subject, in her life with her husband prior to the road trip. ...

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The most important thing that a leader is tasked to is to move people into the direction and into the life that has been decided. ... This most important task for the leader is so important because the way that the people need to go and the life that they need to be living is changing many times in their battles of life. ... People who have a leader expect him to be doing the things that will be needed to make their lives better. ...

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Most normal individuals in the modern world would assume that all books written, not published, by man are based on either a portion of the author's imagination, an event (biased or non-biased) in either history or during the life of the author, a straight-out autobiography, or a generalized biography of another person they once knew. ... However, Socrates bravely explains that the just man will live happily because he has a just soul, and the man with the unjust soul lives in poverty; therefore, injustice can never be greater than justice. ... Socrates polishes off the remainder of his a...

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