"I am a sort of collector of religions‚" remarks Adolphus Cusins‚ Major Barbara Undershaft ’s fiancé‚ midway through the second act of George Bernard Shaw ’s morality play‚ Major Barbara. And thus‚ the play can be seen as collection of varying religious‚ moral‚ and social ideals. The play centers on Barbara Undershaft and her father Andrew Undershaft‚ a Salvation Army Major and a millionaire arms dealer respectively‚ and there conflicting ideological beliefs. However‚ Shaw also creates the character
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Maslow and Aristotle � PAGE �1� Maslow and Aristotle: Similarities and differences Paula Medina PHIL 2306-201 Dr. Bruce Beck September‚ 16th 2008 Maslow and Aristotle: Similarities and differences Abraham Harold Maslow (1908-1970) was a psychologist and visionary who pioneered revolutionary ideas that helped form modern psychology (Hoffman‚ 1988‚ p. XV). He strived to find the good in people‚ "the best of humanity" through positive psychology. His greatest contribution to the psychology
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the independent existence of the soul. Plato certainly thought that the soul could exist separately. Here is what Aristotle has to say on this topic: . . . the soul does not exist without a body and yet is not itself a kind of body. For it is not a body‚ but something which belongs to a body (414a20ff). So according to Aristotle the soul is not separable from the body. If the soul is what gives the body its form‚ bringing it forth as a living individual‚ then we need to recognise just how close the
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What makes children happy? ‘That’s easy‚’ you might say‚ ‘a new toy‚ an ice cream or a trip to the amusement park.’ While these things bring an immediate smile to many children’s faces‚ they are probably not the things that will keep them happy day by day‚ or turn them into happy adults. The basic ingredients that make children happy during childhood seem to be the same ones that help them to become happy adults: a secure relationship with parents gives the base to confidently explore the world and
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Health and Happiness During the fall semester of 2004 I participated in a program to improve my habits of healthy living. I set goals for myself in four different areas‚ Exercise‚ Nutrition‚ Sleep‚ Social or Family Time‚ Play/Laugh/Create and‚ Spiritual development. During the three months of September‚ October and November I experienced some challenges and some successes. In the area of exercise my beginning goal was to play soccer every day and try and lift weights at the gym. This started
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Excerpts from Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics – Book II W. D. Ross translation Book II 1 Virtue‚ then‚ being of two kinds‚ intellectual and moral‚ intellectual virtue in the main owes both its birth and its growth to teaching (for which reason it requires experience and time)‚ while moral virtue comes about as a result of habit‚ whence also its name (ethike) is one that is formed by a slight variation from the word ethos (habit). From this it is also plain that none of the moral virtues
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was Greek philosopher‚ Aristotle on the side of nature and for the side of nurture is also a Greek philosopher Plato. First to start the project‚ my partner named Brittany and I jarred when and purchased a tri – board to present the project. Second‚ to do this debate‚ my partner and I researched on the history of the two philosophers and we also did some research on both of the two great thinker’s views on the two topics. Aristotle’s stand on nature is with the use of what he calls a substance and
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THE BEST FORM OF CONSTITUTION? ARISTOTLE: Question #7 In Politics Books 3 and 4‚ Aristotle analyzes different types of constitutions‚ identifying the strengths and weaknesses of each. Aristotle regards a "polity" as the best for of constitution. According to Aristotle‚ why is a polity the best type of constitution? What are the characteristics of a polity? What sorts of problems does it overcome? In a polity‚ whom would posses political power and why? What type of justice would prevail?
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The minds of Socrates‚ Plato and Aristotle SOCRATES‚ one of those who sought to develop a more consistent and purer concept of god‚ but he paid the price of a pioneer in that the masses misunderstood him. He was considered as the destroyer of the gods of the Greeks. He maintained that the centrality of the real essence of man and individual is not only its acceptance of the different gods but the real understanding of one’s relationship with others in a rational manner. This implies a rational
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Question 7: Aristotle says we cannot really be happy without certain external goods that are not fully in our control: good family‚ friends‚ financial security‚ children‚ beauty. Do you agree? Do our external circumstances determine if we have a good life? Or can we have a good life by becoming independent of external circumstances? Answer: Before I begin to explain my answer to the first question‚ I think it’s important to note that Aristotle acknowledged the existence of contention between what was categorized
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