... his entire household, and his wealth to boot. Job is the archetype of the innocent victim. His fortune changes from the ultimate measure of wealth to the lowest measure of despair. Again, this action is not caused by any of Job's actions but is the result of circumstances completely out ... beginning, middle, and end. The drama must, insists Aristotle, "resemble a living organism in all its unity." (Poetics 976). Job is remarkably structured for such an early piece of literature. The beginning includes a physical description of Job as well as granting the reader knowledge of Satan's wag...

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... Philippi and the death of his friend and ally Cassius, Brutus throws him self upon the sword held by his unwilling slave, we feel in full measure the emotions of pity and fear of which Aristotle wrote. All through the play it is the nobility of the Brutus which Shakespeare has worked to emphasize ... . His natural leadership, his devotion to the good of Rome, his thoughtful and humane character, his open generosity to his enemies, his love of his wife, and his kindness and consideration for servants all these go to complete the picture of a man who is morally good and great. That such .....

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... Philippi and the death of his friend and ally Cassius, Brutus throws him self upon the sword held by his unwilling slave, we feel in full measure the emotions of pity and fear of which Aristotle wrote. All through the play it is the nobility of the Brutus which Shakespeare has worked to emphasize ... . His natural leadership, his devotion to the good of Rome, his thoughtful and humane character, his open generosity to his enemies, his love of his wife, and his kindness and consideration for servants all these go to complete the picture of a man who is morally good and great. That such .....

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... you are trying to accomplish. Virtue theory places special emphasis on moral education since virtuous character traits are developed in one's youth; adults, therefore, are responsible for instilling virtues in the young. The failure to properly develop virtuous character traits will result in the person acquiring bad character traits. Aristotle's philosophy is often reduced to the "golden mean": Virtue lies at the ... Gratitude 3. Justice 4. Beneficence 5. Self-improvement 6. Not injuring others. Communitarianism is a classical ethical theory places its dominant intellectual emphasis on...

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Aristotle's Rules For Tragedy Laid Down In Poetics As They Apply To Blood Relations Aristotle could be considered the first popular literary critic. Unlike Plato, who all but condemned written ... He studies in great detail what components make a decent epic or tragedy. The main sections he comes up with are form, means and manner. For most drama and verse, Aristotle's rules are a fairly good measure of the quality of a piece of written work. In modern day however (modern meaning within the last century), certain changes in the nature of ... The act of murdering one's parents is far from nobl...

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... Sophocles and he stated in The Poetics that a hero is neither innocent nor evil. This person also must possess a tragic flaw. The tragic flaw dooms the character to a ruinous end. Creon's tragic flaws are his stubbornness, his abuse of power, and his evil actions. First of all, Creon shows his stubbornness ... to you king." Creon thinks by making an example of Antigone's execution, everybody would become scared and not try to break his laws, and it works for awhile. Secondly, Creon abuses his power by thinking that he could change or break the laws of the gods. He finally realizes he ha...

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... seek honor purely for its own sake, we also seek it as a measure of our worth. But happiness is sought for its own sake. Aristotle sees wealth as merely useful, it is not sought for itself but for what it can be used to achieve. Wealth is a mean for something else, a ... an emotion or desire is said to be the mean between the extremes of excess and deficiency. Thus, for every feeling you have, you can be virtuous (if your character is such that you feel it in the appropriate way), or you can exhibit the vice of excess ... Surliness Friendly Civility Obsequiousness Ironical Depreciation...

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... and that soul is "divine" and "immortal". This is important because from Socrates, Plato learned about body and soul and this education was the groundwork for Plato's philosophy. Platonic spiritualism is a philosophy founded by Plato that emphasizes soul over body. On the other hand Aristotle (384-322b.c.) was a student ... people of the time believed strongly in Platonic Spiritualism. At around 1500, people began to think that they wanted to do more than prepare for death by putting faith in front of everything else. This began a period referred to as the Renaissance. Renaissance means...

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... virtue of temperance in relation to the nature of states of character. In his examination to achieve true temperance Aristotle asserts, "The general account being of this nature, the account of particular cases is yet more lacking in exactness; for they don not follow under any art or precept, but the ... temperance] that the intermediate state in all things is to be praised, but that we must incline sometimes toward the excess, sometimes toward the deficiency; for so shall we most easily hit the mean and what is right" (1109b28). I agree with Aristotle's statement affirming that in order...

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... virtue of temperance in relation to the nature of states of character. In his examination to achieve true temperance Aristotle asserts, "The general account being of this nature, the account of particular cases is yet more lacking in exactness; for they don not follow under any art or precept, but the ... temperance] that the intermediate state in all things is to be praised, but that we must incline sometimes toward the excess, sometimes toward the deficiency; for so shall we most easily hit the mean and what is right" (1109b28). I agree with Aristotle's statement affirming that in order...

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... requiring high skills, may be assessed as harmful. That's why, an important task of government is to determine, what should be a person's work. For centuries, Plato's concept of ideal' state has been many times criticized for abstractness, utopian character and totalitarianism. Plato himself realized that idea/ ideal of any object could never match its real embodiment. However, he thought definition of a problem about ... Publica- contains. In Aristotle's view the function of ethics is to unite different aims of human behavior: to define what is Good, and what conditions for its realiza...

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... ones emotion, which is precisely what incontinence involves and is what Aristotle condemns. This aligns closely to Dante's second circle (for those condemned for lust), where Semiramis resides, for she was "so broken to the vice of lust that in her laws she made licit whatever pleased, to lift from ... one treats their wealth, is virtuous. He writes, "everyone of them was so cross-eyed of mind in the first life, that no measure governed their spending the undiscerning life that befouled them makes them dark to all recognition bad giving and bad keeping has deprived them of the ... that...

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... about motion, which means every kind of change, not just local motion or change of place, but also ripening, heating, etc. There must always be a cause for any change, a "moving" cause. The second argument is very similar, about "efficient" causes. The difference between a "moving" cause and an "efficient" cause is ... nothing" and the universe and concept of time would cease to exist. On that account, Aquinas" first two ways seem to present a successful argument for the existence of the creator God. As with all arguments attempting to prove the existence of God, Aquinas" first two ways ...

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... the moral law. He compares himself with the moral law and asks questions like, as a human how can I live well? This person has respect for our humanity, which includes our reason and our will. They strive to become better and see themselves worthy of respect. There are three versions of a bad ... , "of all other men in so far as they think themselves good; virtue and the good man seem, as has been said, to be the measure of every class of things" (Aristotle 227). Kant believed that in the idea of friendship, we surpass self-love to exclusively love the friend. In ... friend. In this fr...

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... to Webster, ethics is "the science of moral duty." He further describes it as "the science of ideal human character." The implication is that humans depend on right choices for security, and in many circumstances one must choose the greater good when more than one absolute appears upon the situation. ... society. The primary means of crime prevention is through what is called a "policy of deterrence". Basically, what this means is that by making the consequences for a crime very unpleasant, we hope to lower the amount of that crime. By electrocuting murderers, we hope to lower the numb...

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