what you do are in harmony." - Mahatma Gandhi AS "Happiness depends upon ourselves." - Aristotle In Nichomachean Ethics‚ Aristotle argues the highest end is the human good‚ and claims that the highest end pursued in action is happiness. Also‚ Aristotle claims that happiness is achieved only by living a virtuous life - "our definition is in harmony with those who say that happiness is virtue‚ or a particular virtue; because an activity in accordance with virtue implies virtue. Indeed‚ we may go
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Investigation Problem: • We are going to find out what is communication and how do we communicate in different ways through different things. We are writing a investigation now to understand what are we going to do for creating a new movie about communication. Guiding Questions: • What is communication? Communication requires that all parties have an area of communicative commonality. There are auditory means‚ such as speech‚ song‚ and tone of voice‚ and there are nonverbal means‚ such
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Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe and “for him.” have presented several key differences that makes it seem strange to compare them at all. However‚ as one looks not for the differences but how these stories are similar‚ one will find several important things to note. For example‚ the quote “Jump starting your car ‘cause this city’s a bore‚ buying e-cigarettes at the convenience store.” seems to perfectly describe Ari and Dante as they loosen up and grow up. On page 272‚ Ari
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Introduction Aristotle is considered to be one of the greatest philosophical thinkers of all time. His writings compose of searching 'what is the purpose of life' and 'function of man'. His goal was to know what makes a person’s life well and how we get there. Aristotle believes that the nature of morality is grounded in the function of persons‚ meaning that we must act in order to become happy and fulfilled. What are the functions of persons and how does one acquire virtue? To live
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The person we are is a complicated mixture of how we look‚ behave and think. As people we are constantly changing‚ influenced by our surroundings. It is my belief that most people in modern society believe that the person they have become is a direct consequence of the decisions that they have made during their life. What most people don?t realise is that a great deal of decisions which have affected the course of their life were made before they were even born. In most cases‚ these decisions will
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quote by Aristotle was taken from ‘Aristotle: a Very Short Introduction’ and there is no-one of whom this is more true than Aristotle as he was dedicated to every possible discipline he could sink his teeth into making him one of the utmost key figures within philosophy‚ not only in classical philosophy but he is still regarded as influential in modern philosophy. As well as being a devoted biologist‚ botanist‚ moral philosopher‚ psychologist‚ zoologist and many more things besides Aristotle held
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The idea of “que sais-je?” which translates in English to “What do I know?” is a question that that originated from Michel De Montaigne. This question allows us to contemplate and question what we have learnt. Perhaps it is Montaigne’s experience as a statesman that has allowed himself to question the very foundations of human society or more notably laws and legislations as nothing is hardly ever seems obvious when it comes to deciding the punishment for a convicts. Works like such as Don Quixote
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McAdams April 15‚ 2015 Altruism and Why We do What We do There are two types of people in the world‚ those who play and those who watch. Players find themselves getting involved in whatever they are passionate about. Those who watch find themselves warming the bench‚ not contributing‚ and missing out. One important game we play in life is connected to altruism. Someone who plays in the game of altruism participates in service and doing things outside themself. Why do they act so selflessly? If someone
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Was Aristotle right in thinking virtues were relative? Aristotle at the age of 17 was sent to the intellectual capital of the Greek world‚ Athens and there joined the Academy and studied under Plato. He then later in life set up the Lyceum school and taught there. He argues that whenever we do something‚ we do it to gain an end‚ and that the ultimate ends of all ends is the chief good‚ the greatest good. He believed that actions are directed towards an aim‚ he uses the example that someone gets
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preferable for young people to have their parents’ support for important and potentially life-changing decisions. Often‚ however‚ young patients do not wish parents to be informed of a medical consultation or its outcome and the doctor should not override the patient’s views. Establishing a trusting relationship between the patient and doctor at this stage will do more to promote health than if doctors refuse to see young patients without involving parents. STDcheck is a clinic that provides adolescents
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