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
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“Midway upon the journey of our life‚ I found myself within a forest dark‚ For the straightforward pathway had been lost.” (Canto I). These opening words of the Italian Dante Alighieri’s Inferno set a scene of a man‚ Dante‚ lost in his own God-given life path. From here on‚ Dante embarks on a journey of staggering significance: he is granted a tour of Hell. Dante records this expedition in the Inferno‚ but unfortunately‚ the piece of literature is not entirely factual. Dante creates this story to
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Anna Graciella I. September 5‚ 2012 BSPT 1 B-2 PHILO-19 Sir. Dino Cabrera Summary of Chapter 2 “THE GREEK PHILOSOPHY: SOCRATES‚ PLATO AND ARISTOTLE” There are many different philosophers who appear during the fifth century one of this were the Sophist came from the greek word sophisma and sphizo meaning “I am wise”‚ their philosophy influenced Greece that led to democracy. The Sophist moves
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Duke Ellington definitely stands in my mind as one of the more important and productive musicians of this century. One of the first black band leaders‚ and one of the most innovative‚ the Duke wrote music of all types and styles from solo jazz piano pieces to 16 piece pop songs to symphony orchestra pieces. His wide range of composing styles is seen in his collaborations with prominent performers‚ two of which are John Coltrane and Frank Sinatra. He was born in 1899 in Washington‚ D.C.‚ and came
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Adi Davis 12/10/12 AP Lit Mr. Campbell “I Can’t Believe I Read this in Middle English: The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. Perhaps the first dark comedy?” Throughout The Canterbury Tales‚ Chaucer seems to question the popularity of courtly love in his own culture‚ and to highlight the contradictions between courtly love and Christianity‚ and social casts and convention. Courtly love is the notion that true love only exists outside of
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Lyric Analysis of Butterfly effect The story behind Butterfly effect by Travis scott is about his Lamborghini and how he is making money by rapping. He shows his love and passion for his car in butterfly effect by lyrics that are very creative. Not only is Butterfly effect about his car it is about how he is living in the hills and flexing on all these other rappers. This song really inspires me to follow what I want to do. Song Lyric Analysis Rough draft of “Butterfly effect” By Jack Bell Butterfly
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Poetic Justice: A Look at King and Anthony Every society determines what laws are necessary to preserve the natural‚ moral‚ and ethical rights of its constituents. Laws are social structures put in place to maintain order and balance. Often‚ however‚ there has been a discrepancy between the justice served and the justice deserved as the law has been manipulated by a powerful group to exploit a weaker group. For example‚ during the mid 19th Century there was a steady increase in efforts for women’s
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ARISTOTLE Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath‚ a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects‚ including physics‚ metaphysics‚ poetry‚ theater‚ music‚ logic‚ rhetoric‚ linguistics‚ politics‚ government‚ ethics‚ biology‚ and zoology. Together with Plato and Socrates (Plato’s teacher)‚ Aristotle is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy. Aristotle’s writings were the first to create a comprehensive system of Western philosophy
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Analyze Agamemnon’s Character from Homer’s Iliad and Aeschylus’s Agamemnon [pic] Agamemnon is the son of King Atreus of Mycenae and Queen Aerope‚ the brother of Menelaus and the husband of Clytemnestra. Agamemnon and Clytemnestra had four children: one son‚ Orestes‚ and three daughters‚ Iphigenia‚ Electra and Chrysothemis. He was the king of Mycenae. When Helen‚ the wife of Menelaus‚ was abducted by Paris of Troy‚ Agamemnon was the commander of the Greeks in the ensuing Trojan War. Upon Agamemnon’s
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Tragic heroes from Greek tragedies almost always share similar characteristics. Medea from Euripides’s play Medea and Clytemnestra from Aeschylus’s play Agamemnon display and share tragic traits. They are both vengeful wives who share similarities in the cause of their vengeance but have some differences in their chosen means of revenge; as a result of successfully exacting their revenge both Clytemnestra and Medea cause their own downfall. Both Medea and Clytemnestra seek to hurt their husbands
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