Antigone‚ As Described By Aristotle The tragic play Antigone‚ written by Sophocles‚ is a story of mixed emotions and drastic reactions. At the beginning of the play‚ the current ruler of Thebes‚ Creon‚ orders that no one is to touch the deceased Polynecies. However‚ Antigone has a very different plan for his body. Antigone tries to convince her sister‚ Ismene‚ to help her bury her brother‚ but she is too afraid to break the law. After sprinkling dirt on the body‚ Creon sentences Antigone to death
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People have defined happiness as some kind of good of a human being. In Nicomachean Ethics: Book I‚ Aristotle defines happiness as the activity of living well‚ which in the Greek word is called eudaimonia. He tends to think that happiness is how we balance and moderate our lives to seek the highest pleasures‚ which he calls maintaining the mean. In the following excerpt from Book I‚ Aristotle talks about how happiness presumably consists in attaining some good or set of goods. “Now goods have
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art of decision making has been speculated by many‚ including modern philosopher‚ Immanuel Kant‚ and ancient philosopher and scientist‚ Aristotle. Their views on decision making differ because of the era in which they lived in‚ and so they both have their own opinions on how one can effectively make a decision for the right reason. Though Immanuel Kant and Aristotle have
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Summary of Aristotle’s Politics ( By Inamullah Gandapur) * Aristotle says that all associations are developed to achieve some good objectives and state is a big association which comprised of all other types of associations including family. He says that man is a political animal and the good life can only be achieved if a man spends his life as a citizen of the state. * In economic relations he defends institution of slavery‚ holding of private property but do not like excessive capitalism
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aRISTOTLE | Principle of Ethics | | | | 5/8/2011 | [Type the abstract of the document here. The abstract is typically a short summary of the contents of the document. Type the abstract of the document here. The abstract is typically a short summary of the contents of the document.] | A married couple‚ both addicted to drugs‚ is unable to care for their infant daughter. She is taken from them by court order and placed in a foster home. The years pass. She comes to regard her foster
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immortality also believes in 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
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"Isn’t this great?" my dad asked excitedly. "It’s the last night you and your sister will be twin prime ages until you’re 11 and she’s 13--six more years!" I was trying to sleep‚ but my dad dragged me back to the world of the living. "Sam‚ can you tell me how many times you two will be twin primes before you turn 21?" Dad was tempting me. He knew I wanted to go to bed‚ but the urge to be right and earn his smile was too great. In my mind I made a number line and crossed off every even number
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upon a time‚ there were two brothers. Composite and Prime Number. They were fraternal twins; Composite Number’s factored form was 2•2•2•3 and Prime Number’s was 23•1. Nobody liked Prime Number because he couldn’t be factored and nobody wanted him to play with them in their games; like prime factorization (because he couldn’t be factored at all). Prime Number’s only friend was Prime Polynomial. They both had one major thing in common; being prime. While Composite Number has all his composite friends
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What is prime reality‚ or in other words‚ what is truly real? Many people ask this question on a daily basis‚ without having a true sense of the question they are asking themselves. What is prime reality? There are two sides or more sides to every argument‚ and the question of prime reality is no different. Asking this question raises a couple other questions as well. Those are “What is external reality?” and “What is my purpose?” Naturalists and Christian Theists propose opposite claims to these
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Prime Directive Response When dealing with foreign sentient species‚ it is crucial to maintain what is know as a prime directive. This is the notion that a species may explore distant planets‚ but must take certain precautions when dealing with other sentient species to prevent any change in their progression. In the novel Speaker for the Dead‚ the citizens of Lusitania go to great lengths to preserve their prime directive‚ but the indigenous species appear to benefit from their encounters with
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