... Aristotelian conception of virtue and vice: they are grouped into the sins of wantonness, violence, and fraud. Each circle condemns some sort of excessive or deficient act, the very same structure of morality we find in Aristotle's Doctrine of the Mean. Indeed, it seems Aristotelian morality is the very source out of which conceptions of sin in the Inferno are constructed ... . Although their Ethical agendas are constructed differently and Aristotle's Ethics lack sins against God, Dante and Aristotle generally seem to condemn the same sins (either an extreme or a deficiency). The structu...

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... , he or she may be accustomed to ignoring Plato's messages. Sure, Plato was attempting a stab at humor, however, that does necessarily imply all of his ideas with respect to community structure are necessarily bad or wrong. A clear example of this is women's role in the community. Plato, of course, proposes that women, while being inferior to men, shall still participate in ... female inferiority on man's proposed physical and mental superiority. Archetypes and literature of the time undoubtedly had the greatest impact on his thoughts. In fact, Plato's beliefs in this matter parallel a d...

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