• A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first. • Even if a snake is not poisonous‚ it should pretend to be venoms. • The biggest guru-mantra is: Never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you. • There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no Friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth. • Before you start some work‚ always ask yourself three questions; Why am I doing it‚ What the
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It can be taken as him being okay with pro-choice because death is not legitimate to him. Except when he explains unnecessary desires‚ sex is one of them. Sex leads to pregnancy‚ the woman made that choice which means it is not necessary for her to have the right to terminate her mistake. Epicurus explains pleasure as an absence of disturbance‚ pregnancy is seen as a disturbance because it comes with new found responsibility and if the mother is not ready for that
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Olivia seems to be the emotional counterpart for the duke; he is a melancholy parallel for Olivia‚ and Olivia has sworn to abjure the world for seven years to mourn for her dead brother‚ an act of extreme sentimental melancholy. Olivia is also the opposite of Viola in many ways. While Olivia is attracted to her opposite (Viola in the guise of Cesario)‚ Viola will be attracted to her opposite‚ Duke Orsino. Other than the melodramatic pose that Olivia is assuming at the beginning of the play (we
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Aristotle’s high minded man is certainly a difficult character to like. The high minded man seems haughty‚ ungrateful‚ condescending‚ and frustratingly indifferent. Aristotle’s would argue he seems this way only because we are not high minded. I think that Aristotle’s high minded man is an extreme example of how Aristotle thinks a virtuous man should behave. Aristotle is using the high minded man as a model to show what a man who is virtuous and perfect in every regard looks like‚ just as Plato
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1. Explain Aristotle’s definition of happiness as a final end‚ and why the “final end” is equivalent to the ultimate good. Aristotle’s most basic definition of happiness is that it is the final end. This final end is viewed as a goal‚ something that is worth pursuing. When something is defined as good‚ it is good because it is worth being realized‚ which can thus be associated with a goal. At this point‚ it can be understood that the terms end and good are exchangeable. Since Aristotle is a classical
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Eng Comp 101 Aristotle’s The Aim of Man Essay What is the meaning of life? What is the point of life and consciousness? What is your ‘end?’ Aristotle says happiness is the be all‚ end all; the final destination; the key to existence. In his books‚ he defines happiness as the most righteous good that man’s actions can achieve. It is the one true end that all our behaviors and choices aim. Fuck that. Why must happiness be the greatest‚ highest‚ most purposeful end in life? That’s an awfully selfish
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persuasion is striving to enter out lives and how people are shaped into just seeing one perspective of a speech topic. Right from Aristotle’s Rhetoric‚ Aristotle claims “Rhetoric is the counterpart of Dialectic. Both alike are concerned with such things as come‚ more or less‚ within the general ken of all men and belong to no definite science” (Aristotle 53). What Aristotle means by this quote is that the rhetoric used is equally defined by the term of dialect. Dialect is the way a topic is discussed using
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showing that Aristotle’s theory was teleological. The example makes the four causes efficient in explaining the world as almost every object can be explained and it reflects easily on the world
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Aristotle’s view of happiness is actually what we normally call fulfillment. Happiness for Americans is hanging out with friends‚ going to movies experiencing life‚ and spending time with our family. Aristotle’s happiness is living a full life and not having any regrets when it is time to die. Despite calling it different terms I feel it is still the ultimate goal in life. I work hard in school because I want to have a great career I love. If I just wanted short term happiness than I wouldn’t be
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English 102 “The Relationship of Aristotle’s Poetics to Modern Dramatic Tragedy as Exhibited in Tennessee William’s The Glass Menagerie” Aristotle’s poetics were created by Aristotle himself and they were a literary work of his dramatic theory. “The Glass Menagerie” is a play written by‚ Tennessee Williams‚ that exemplifies Aristotle’s opinion of poetry being an imitation of life or a mythos. It is also a tragedy because it follows Aristotle’s poetic guidelines. Aristotle said
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