According to Aristotle, virtue primarily involves the use of a person's rationality. ... In other words, a person with a good character has virtue. ... This balance becomes an index of the person's virtue. ... The rational can also be divided up by what a person knows is intrinsically reasonable, and the ability of a person to listen to or be convinced by someone else's reason. ... If two people have the same virtues, and in the same degree, but find themselves in different circumstances whereby the first person is forced to respond in regards to those virtues he lacks, while th...

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First, in order to realize the virtues of the novel's characters, a working definition of the word "virtuous " is required so that all characters are fairly judged. ... Likewise, those actions are credible and without sin with both cases being seen as issues with another person and her pointing out the faults. ... The first describes the stability that Draupadi possesses, never bending or breaking and in control of her emotions and the situation at hand. ... Along similar lines, when she is first introduced, she serves as a prize to the best marksman, as any princess in that time will go ...

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One man can be friends for utility, while the other is an actual good person. ... First, Aristotle allows you the freedom of becoming virtuous simply by performing virtuous acts and forming a virtuous character. ... First of all, Crito seems like he is nave in the fact that he does not know the true meaning of being just and Socrates seems like he is the teacher, or superior to Crito. ... Aristotle says that a virtuous person loves himself more than any other person loves himself, but that he also loves his friend for his own sake, and that the virtuous person, because he wants to achieve h...

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", virtue ethics tends to ask the question "what kind of person do I want to be?... Virtue ethics prescribes that we imagine a picture of the good life and of the good person and act in accordance to those ideals. ... This virtuous person, serving as a role model, is described as a "moral exemplar". ... He describes that intellectual virtue is born from and grown by teaching, whereas moral virtue comes to us a result of habit, that we get the virtues by first exercising them. ... To determine our ultimate good, we must first exclude all things that are good only for t...

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This can be achieving only condition for the person is to have trust. ... Only a person with faith will execute works that are control by God and His prophet. ... Almost all people who act immorally first effort to decrease their bad behavior in order to comfort their conscience for what they realize is really wrong. ... A person's ethics can be both good and bad. ... The supporter of free will state that at any given time a person is facing numerous dissimilar alternatives and whatsoever he/she prefer rests wholly upon the person itself. ...

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He established the first empirical guidelines for the conduct of scientific investigations. ... His treatment of the Prime Mover, or first cause, as pure intellect, perfect in unity, immutable, and as he said, "the thought of thought-. To his son Nicomachus he dedicated his work on ethics, called the Nicomachean Ethics, this is the first systematic treatment of ethics in Western civilization. ... Such a person lacks what Aristotle calls moral virtue. ... For example, the generous person has the virtue of being disposed to give away money in a fitting way, neither too much nor too little...

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The first is "respect for the worth and dignity of every individual-2. ... Thus responsibility is placed on the person being cared for to treat the carer with respect. ... There is a danger when promoting the principle of choice of "every person for themselves-. ... Usually the care provider is in a position of power vis -vis the person who receives care, and this position can be unfairly exploited. ... Respecting a person's right to confidentiality helps to underpin good A.D.P. ...

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Within each of these companies or industries they have either a certain person or even a division that takes care and over sees the ethical situations with in the company. ... Keith was the first to speak on the topic and he talked about how being in the HR world he is hiring and firing individuals all the time. ... If he fired him to soon that person might miss out on extra sever ants pay, paid leave and benefits, but if he didn't fire him until that date, how would he feel if he later finds out that there were other individuals in the same situation that he did not do the same for. ......

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That might be a reason why I rarely had an argument or conflict with any person when I was young. ... I was also afraid of being a bad person in others' thoughts. ... Hence, I realized that treating people with kindness and respect is not enough to be a good person. ... In order to know how to understand and respect others, I necessarily need to learn how to understand and respect myself first. Being a good person with a strong ethic code is not an easy path. ...

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This essay would first explain Machiavelli's political view on the individual and the states, and then go on to highlight Hobbes' political ideas; then compare and analyze both thinkers' essays. First we need to inspect Machiavelli and Hobbes individual perspectives on human nature in order to comprehend how they approach the use of power. ... Therefore, "power" is pursuing one's desire until that person meets his limits. ... He also states three flaws in democratic governments; the first reason is that democracy has institutions and institutions are founded a...

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He believes that this knowledge judge will make a more ethical decision because he has been in this situation before while a young judge who is making a ruling on the same case for the first time believes that he would be incapable of making a morally ethical decision because he has no prior knowledge of this matter. ... I believe that this statement leads to the thought that every person will always make morally ethical decisions which is not the case for everyone on a daily basis. ... Decisions made for the good create a positive virtue, while unethical decisions made be a person in their ...

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The lustful person accords his actions to his appetites and thereby neglects reason. ... He writes, "we must take as an indication of a person's states of pleasure or pain consequent on what he does, because the person who abstains from bodily pleasures and finds his enjoyment in doing just this is temperate, whilst the person doing it oppressive is intemperate " (1104b, NE). A temperate person will gain a higher pleasure by abstaining from such indulgence than by surrendering to appetitive compulsions. ... He writes, "everyone of them was so cross-eyed of mind in the first life, that no...

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To understand this, we will first look at how Franklin practiced his virtues then look at how these virtues are exercised in America today. ... The blind should be able to access any book as well as a sighted person can. ... A person who takes Franklin's virtue and live it to the ultimate max would always act in his or her own self-interest all the time. ... Understanding this, the survey revealed, "a remarkable 75 percent mentioned soft skills first in their description of the most important skills" (59). ... Learning these skills only betters a person and his or her chance of making...

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"A person who possesses five virtues may be said to have possessed jen They are reverence, kindness, sincerity, sagacity and generosity". ... Similarly, when describing a model leader, he says: "Let him honor the five excellent, and banish away the four bad", the five excellent being "when the person in authority is beneficent without great expenditure, when he lays tasks on the people without their repining, when he pursues what he desires without being covetous, when he maintains a dignified ease without being proud, when he is majestic without being fierce" and the four bad being: cruelt...

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In all these instances, honor is placed on a person through what is observed by his or her peers. ... However, the friar mentioned in Lazarillo de Tormes furtively meets with prostitutes and gives Lázaro "the first pair of shoes [he] ever wore out [his] life (81)-. This phrase possibly insinuates Lázaro's first sexual relation, which the hallowed friar aided Lázaro in achieving. ... Additionally, while society's righteousness grew with its ability to dispense money, its leaders were as immoral as the common person was. ...

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What might have simply been a different interpretation of one person, spawned into indifference among the entire population of Christian followers. ... Because there is no evil attached to this new life, Pelagius saw it as perfectly reasonable for a person to continue life free of sin. ... Augustine experienced first hand, the need for God's grace as he struggled with his own conversion to Christianity. ... In a country of free speech, it is difficult to imagine how a person could be condemned on the basis of his beliefs. ...

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I think others view me as dependable persons for important tasks, and being viewed this way has always been fulfilling to me (until recently). ... In my life, she has been the only person that I could say the same about. ... If this assignment was meant to help a person reflect. ... Now my direct supervisor on the other hand, stated that she saw me as a very knowledgeable person, and that it was apparent that I valued education for myself and others. ... Now at first, I took that as a true statement and a compliment. ...

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Plato expresses in the "Republic- that a person and later a state must aim to achieve the four principal virtues. ... From his perspective, it is the quality of mind, the pysche organization that enables a person to act virtuously. ... Cephalus was the first to give the definition of justice. ... ""(348C) We will later in the work learn better what Socrates means when he says justice "the agreement of the first three cardinal virtues wisdom, courage, temperance that when in harmony result in justice. ... In the first section of Book II, Socrates and Glaucon, his half brother are c...

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When you think of your parent what is the first word that comes to mind besides love? ... The first thing that I can probably say for all of us that is tested every day is integrity. ... You wondered how this is possible, but don't worry I am in the same boat and have been for decades now from when I first ask the same question. ... Integrity has many meanings in how it is explained according to Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, "When used as a virtue term, ˜integrity' refers to a quality of a person's character; however, there are other uses of the term. ... Readin...

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Every person born has had some kind of guidance, either by his or her parents, grandparents, siblings, or caretakers. ... Looking back at my first paper, I realized that I have kind of changed my ethical perspective throughout the last few months. ... "Only capital punishment can fit the severity of the crime of murder, and a person who murders has forfeited his or her own right to life." ...

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If virtue is not teachable, and wisdom is not acquired through teachings, how can a person focus on the welfare of his or her should and acquire that life of virtue that nourishes life? ... If one were to analyze the virtues, it would seem that it is only for just one person. ... It is the necessity and the moral obligation of a person. ... Sure a person can have vast amounts of knowledge, but can that knowledge guarantee a virtuous life, a life of "excellence ", one filled with wisdom? ... Even if you acquitted me now and did not believe Anytus , who said to you that either I should not have ...

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How can we say if a person is pious or impious? ... In the dialogue, the first definition, to prosecute the wrong doer no matter who it is and what crime it is pious. ... The first principle is to point out the difference between affecting something and being an effect that is affected by a reason. ...

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After Nobin's first year at the school, his grades seemed to get worse and worse. ... First and most importantly, I think it is proper time management that effects good performance in school. ... These are: pleasure, which includes friendship for the purpose of sex or other shared gratification; utility, in which a friend is acquired for a specific purpose, i.e. their skill in carpentry, which can then be used to the advantage of the self; and finally 'true' friendship, which deals with the friend themselves as a whole, and arises not as a consequence of some attribute which ca...

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The first step the Stump Water management team will need to do is create a purpose or vision for the merger of the two companies. ... According to author Andrew Dubrin of the text, Applying Psychology and Individual and Organizational Effectiveness, "A value refers to the importance a person attaches to something. " [ ] People are not born with a particular set of values, [ ], values are learned in the process of growing up- many by age 4" (38). ...

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Parent Conversation Project In religion we were assigned a project. This project is called the Parent Conversation Project, also known as PCP. In this project we were given ten questions which we were to ask our parents and ourselves. After we did that separately we were supposed to discuss our an...

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