... Is it plausible that they are wrong on this? - LT against Bork: Opens with Q about knowledge of your moral character. Unless it is put to some tests, how can we possibly know if we have firm or weak moral character? Not sufficient to merely know right from wrong: Satan in Job seems to have a ... the parent's duty to teach their kids what to do and deter them, sometimes by punishment. But the punishment is not revenge like; it is out of love. Similarly, the just person should never harm others insofar as that includes taking delight in seeing others harmed. - The just person is the one tha...

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... a higher and more spiritual enjoyment, can be thrown into the balance against these, and unite its forces with those other perceptions which release us from the sensuous and passionate. The love of the beautiful is often a powerful auxiliary of virtue, by engaging the faculties in an ennobling form of activity, thus at once preoccupying the ground against vicious inclinations, and bringing ... forms call into requisition the rudiments of beautiful expression, in its lines and out lines and surfaces. Thus may pleasure still run through all the wearier passages of life, the love of the he...

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... a higher and more spiritual enjoyment, can be thrown into the balance against these, and unite its forces with those other perceptions which release us from the sensuous and passionate. The love of the beautiful is often a powerful auxiliary of virtue, by engaging the faculties in an ennobling form of activity, thus at once preoccupying the ground against vicious inclinations, and bringing ... forms call into requisition the rudiments of beautiful expression, in its lines and out lines and surfaces. Thus may pleasure still run through all the wearier passages of life, the love of the he...

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... non-egalitarian argument. There are obviously some people who are more intelligent and thus more capable of higher levels of reasoning than others. We can prove this through various IQ tests, anecdotal evidence, and simply the existence of people whose limited experience of the world leaves them less prepared to pursue lofty, academic pursuits. For example, we would say that a Harvard ... for happiness. Things are not desirable because we desire them. Rather, they are desirable because they allow us a deeper understanding of reason. "It is true that when we fall in love, or accomplish s...

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... due to his own sense of self. More appears to be more of a teacher than he is a friend or a lover. Or, one could say that More shows his friendship and love by teaching others. Due to his dependence upon his own conscience, More seems to have developed the idea that others must learn to listen to their consciences as well. Therefore ... , he continually tests people and teaches them through his own example, rather than through his words. Symbols Water as uncertain universe; dry land as safe haven - Bolt announces that his play is widespread ... ...

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