... in your judgement, is the more persuasive of the two views? Why? Plato and Aristotle come to very different conclusions about the aspects that occupy the central understanding of human nature. Both men possessed a superior intellect; indeed, this is an illustrative example of how, their fundamental ... connected particulars with a special term, "ousia", which itself means "reality", though it is usually translated as "substance". "What is substance?" (Cooper, 1999). Aristotle answered this question by defining a substance as an individual, existing thing. Such a "thing" is not merely a...

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... to two strict professions; politicians and philosophers. Politicians could achieve Eudaemonia through their work through the state and charity towards there fellow man, and Aristotle always had an admiration for politicians, calling Politics the highest of all disciplines, and stating, "to seek good for one person is satisfactory ... is extremely important in the understanding of the concept of Eudaimonia. He believed that Happiness consisted solely in reasoning well. Another belief had by Aristotle was the idea of the existence of a god that was pure intuitive reason. Therefore if man p...

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... similar characteristics. He used this idea of genera in much broader way then is used by biologists today. He then distinguished the species within the genera. Animals were divided into two types: those with blood and those without (red) blood. This way of dividing animals is ... is not invisible but is part of what things are. This was all new thought and led to his theory of potentiality. He saw within everything and everyone a natural evolution that would lead to fulfilling potential. He saw this as a natural and involuntary process from imperfect to perfect ... tied into the golden me...

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... its boundaries, making the subject henceforth numerically available to become a one or two etc Substance is "an individual man and or an individual horse." Aristotle classified his universals as substances, for universals are the notions that define what the structure and constitution of a substance is. Therefore, without this classification of ... matter without cognition an idea without purpose or "that"ness. The bed is an idea, a substance and it contains the origin of its substance within, and therefore it holds its own record of change and movements. It is its own substance to be ac...

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... to one another, with a view to a possible better existence-. Such an association requires leisure time, external wealth and power and certain personal qualities, like health, justice etc. According to Aristotle, personal status in society is defined by property. He also criticizes Plato for abolition of private property in his ideal state, stressing that commonality of property is impossible, as soon ... weakness, uniting with each other, but in their natural inclination to solidarity. His expression "A human being is a social animal by his nature- has become a classical one. For Aristot...

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... ." He believed that this moral virtue, of which happiness comes from, is a matter of avoiding extremes in behavior and finding the mean between them. Aristotle conceives happiness not primarily as an exercise of virtue in private or with friends, but as the exercise of virtue in governing an ideal state. Hence, ... is merely a means to towards a greater good. He taught moderation, and that these three vices could be pursued but not as an all encompassing goal. Aristotle felt that through the four qualities of wisdom, courage, temperance, and justice, could a person be led to happiness. O...

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... a logical and important connection between humanity and nature, not a mysterious and secret one between humans and god. (The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.) Aristotle was one of the minds who developed a more scientific approach to religion. He looked at religion and agreed with the movements taking place in ... and saw that all around him were signs and proofs that there was a higher place. (The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy) One of Aristotle's observations was of the significance of the number three in the universe. There is a beginning middle and end in all things that oc...

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... the only one that is responsible for these actions is what makes it significant, because happiness is to be explained in terms of reason. To Aristotle, this means that happiness depends on the actualization of one's rationality. A human's function is to engage in "an activity of the soul which ... contemplative. Moral virtues are what we learn from imitation, practice and our habits we developed. Moral virtues are what we have learned from our society. Aristotle said, "Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive t...

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... recognizes only 174 independent nation-states on earth today. Of the 158 constitutional histories, only one, the Constitution of Athens, survives; scholars think that it was written by Aristotle himself. At any rate, Aristotle had a very large empirical database for his theorizing about politics. 2. The city exists by nature; a human being is by nature a political animal: The genus of a city ... sufficient individual, for whom subordination to any form of government is alien. (2) In calling a city a complete community (teleios koinania) and the completion or end (telos) of the other comm...

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... came to the conclusion, through process of elimination, that the soul must rule the body and be the essence of the human person (pomerleau, 13). Aristotle does not say that the soul rules the body, but argues that the body cannot possibly be a body without the soul and the soul cannot be ... thought, and the ability to make free choices. This is the highest type of soul. These different types of souls are on somewhat of a hierarchy level which Aristotle refers to as more primitive souls. For example a dog is more capable of things then a bush is because it has a higher level of soul, an...

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... government serves its people. A third topic that they all shared and interest in was the equality of people. What rights they might have and so on. All three men agreed on what happens to humans when they are in a free state of nature. All of them said, indifferent ways, that people do as they please and there ... nature and bettered themselves. By looking out for person other than themselves the whole society eventually got taken care of. One other necessity for government is equality. All men had good ideas about equality even though they differed slightly in what they said. Rousseau s...

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... faced with a dilemma created by the biases in male driven science. Instead of looking towards history from a perspective which would allow both women and men to have active roles, science has focused almost entirely on the "Male concern with male dominance in studies of humans and animals" (Zihlman, p. ... the biggest problems facing feminists through history has been the entrenchment of both religion and science in ideologies based on Aristotle. Aristotle viewed women as imperfect men. His views became the basis of western science and they were codified in the teachings of the Catholic...

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... irrational soul has two aspects: a part that deals with nutrition and growth and has little connection with virtue, and the part with governs one's impulses. Aristotle treats happiness as an action and not as a state. Happiness is a way of life, not a specific mood. Happiness is the action of living well ... satisfying the natural function toward which ones goal is determined. This natural function is something in which is important to being human. One aspect that Aristotle discusses would be when virtuous actions do not contain the ethical virtue associated with that action. One example...

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... ,modesty, truthfulness, wittiness, friendliness and righteous indignation. "Thus there are three disposition, two of them vicious and one good the mean ''Aristotle explains that this happy balance is relative to the person. It all depends on the persons character. A person possessing an excellent character will act effortlessly ... in the right way .one who does not have an excellent character must change and become a virtuous person! Aristotle explains that one must deliberate and reason before doing an action because the individual must learn how to act in the virtuous manner unt...

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... pleasurable and may be associated with emotions of hatred, fear, anger, resentment. Emotions tend to affect our reaction to events that happen. Aristotle writes in the Rhetoric, "The emotions [pathe] are those things through which, by undergoing change, people come to differ in their judgements ... division of the soul came from the fact that emotions often times make one act differently than a rational decision. What is a good life? Aristotle believed the goal of human life was eudemonia, or happiness. As a complex notion, however, eudemonia combines self-sufficiency, health and pleasure...

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... places the person who is seeking it in the hands of those they are trying to impress, making it very unstable and doomed to fail. Aristotle then explains why obtaining wealth is not a form of happiness. Wealth is a mean for something else, a rich person who works hard to ... of happiness appears to be one identical with contentment. A happy person is one who leads a life in which they are content with their actions. Aristotle said that happiness is dependent on living a good life. He is a firm believer that the good life can only be met if we perform ... happiness to involve enjoyment ...

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... Primary substances can have predicable and present things for example an apple can have a predicate "apple" and something is present in it, the colors. Aristotle talked about secondary substances which were characteristics of primary substances. The secondary substances need the primary ones to exist and some of them are unique identities rather ... just by forms but also on the inside just like a person that is good and can be bad too while being the same human being. Aristotle's ideas, thinking about them today were some kind of common sense it's just that nobody really thought about ...

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... from the non-virtuous people of society and their features. Arguments for this matter range widely among different people. But according to Hsun Tzu, all men are born evil, and "goodness is the result of conscious activity- (Hsun, 157) And what separates virtuous people from the non-virtuous is how ... and righteous acts. People act certain ways because they want to and that sometimes they must follow a certain guidelines that regulate the ways people behave within their society. There are many examples to illustrate these points. For example, when a man is hungry, he "will not dare to ...

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... usually preoccupied with receiving and wanting to be shown dignity that one forgets to treat others in the same manner. In John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, the characters whom are considered the weakest, seek to shatter those who are weaker than they. Candy fears that, because of his age, he ... Lennie, then Crooks immediately aims his sights on Lennie's own weakness, creating a story where George abandons Lennie.  Curley's wife constantly seeks dignity from all the men on the ranch, yet she feels most powerful when threatening Crooks with a lynching.  In these three characters on...

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... I believe that driving patterns differ in both men and women because their thought patterns are contradictory. My sister recently bought a nineteen eighty-four Camaro, and was added to my parent's ... about male and female driving differences, and this is what I found: It's a proven scientific fact that men and women perceive, as well as process things differently because their brains work in opposite directions. Statistically men are more right brained and women are more left brained. The left side of the brain is the side ... It may cause unnecessary mistakes in a stressful situatio...

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... and His Mother" In many stories throughout ancient times, monsters have been the focus for the problems within society, causing any number of woes for the people. The monsters themselves, however, are quite often distanced and set apart in numerous ways from the peoples whom they plague, including ... making monsters out to be outsiders remains firmly in place, witnessed through the descriptions, attitudes, and actions of the fiend Grendel and his horrific Mother. There exists, however, a paradoxical symbolism within the epic's framework concerning this beast and his kin in which they ...

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The Passions and the Reasons Within The Enlightenment, also known as the Age of Reason, is the name given to the period in Europe during the 1700s when mankind was emerging from centuries of ignorance into a ... to accomplish expressing his goals more because he was able to give the oppositions of his view points. When he talked about how Phaedra's hidden passion had consumed her from within, he also stated that revealing one's passion will still kill oneself. In Swift's work, he only showed the dark side of human's passion when he should have also showed the ... ...

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The size of a man means nothing when it comes to his personality and the kind of person he is on the inside. In the book "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck, Lennie, one of the main characters was mistreated in a lot of ways. "So you forgot awready, did you? I gotta tell you again? Jesus christ your a crazy lil" ... ...

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Beauty Lies Within What makes a woman beautiful? Is it her eyes, her smile, her hair, her body? Yes, all of these factors contribute to beauty, but beauty in its purest form is found in the heart, mind, and soul. Judging someone solely on looks is superficial. That would be comparable to judgi...

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... in your judgement, is the more persuasive of the two views? Why? Plato and Aristotle come to very different conclusions about the aspects that occupy the central understanding of human nature. Both men possessed a superior intellect; indeed, this is an illustrative example of how, their fundamental ... connected particulars with a special term, "ousia", which itself means "reality", though it is usually translated as "substance". "What is substance?" (Cooper, 1999). Aristotle answered this question by defining a substance as an individual, existing thing. Such a "thing" is not merely a...

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