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    Contemporary Thinkers: Plato‚ Aristotle‚ Augustine‚ Aguinas Question #1 : Please discuss the political organization of the Greek city- states‚ particularly Athenian democracy at the time of Pericles‚ Plato‚ and Aristotle. Also discuss the backgrounds of Socrates‚ Plato and Aristotle and the fate of the Greek city-states historically. During the time of Pericles‚ Plato‚ and Aristotle‚ Greece was divided into city-states with a wide variety of constitutions‚ ranging from Sparta ’s military dictatorship

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    according to Aristotle‚ is a virtue? What is a vice? Fully describe two virtues and their corresponding vices. How does the concept of balance relate to virtues and vices? A virtue is something that can be praised upon however it is also make us good and obedient to the law. Virtue makes us good and obedient to the laws that are forced upon us. There are two types of virtues one is a moral virtue which comes from habits while intellectual virtue comes from knowledge. However‚ Aristotle talks about

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    (416b30-418a7). For Aristotle‚ when our body senses something‚ such as when we taste a particular food‚ our tongue literally becomes that specific taste. For example‚ if a human were to eat a spicy Buffalo wing‚ our tongue at the time would become that particular type of spice. Aristotle states that‚ though our tongue has the potential to taste various flavors‚ at the time the tongue is only actively tasting the spicy Buffalo wing‚ as our body receives that flavor. Aristotle defends his claim through

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    PHIL1010:901 Introduction to Logic 20111:1 “What did Aristotle contribute to the discipline of Logic?” Aristotle was a Greek philosopher that lived from 384 BC to 322 BC. Aristotle was born in Stagira in northern Greece and he was the son of Nichomachus. In 367 he was sent to Athens to study philosophy with a great Greek philosopher named Plato. Some years later he traveled to Macedonia to tutor Alexander the Great. Aristotle returned to Athens and set up a school of his own following his success

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    Poetic Reasoning and Mathematical Reasoning The Purloined letter is one of the well-known letter by Edgar Allan Poe. Edgar Allan Poe wrote that letter in early 1800. The story takes place in Paris. The Purloined letter is a detective story‚ because Poe invented a mystery fitting of a detective story that also challenged readers’ expectation of detective story. Poe made readers’ question what was going on and how the story will be solved. There were many problems in the story but one of the main

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    Short Paper #1 – Aristotle v. Martin Luther King‚ Jr. Martin Luther King‚ Jr. and Aristotle find common ground in the idea of a distinction between just and unjust laws; however‚ Aristotle finds distinction in society’s understanding of the purpose of the law through extensive reasoning‚ while Martin Luther King‚ Jr. defines a just law as a law based on social mores and the “Law of God”. Martin Luther King‚ Jr. claims distinction between just and unjust laws on moral responsibility or the “Law

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    that have been as influential as the ancient Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle. Aristotle was even a student of Plato’s‚ having studied under him for over 20 years. However‚ both men still held opposing views when it came to certain views about how the state should be ruled. One such view was on the ability to own private property and the ability to rule. Plato’s‚ The Republic and Aristotle’s‚ the Politics of Aristotle illustrates both philosophers’ ideal states of regime. It is also where we

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    "Wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking” Aristotle Introduction One of the greatest philosophers of the 19th century‚ Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)‚ once said "Money is a barrier against all possible evils." Indeed‚ money can be used for good and the acquisition of money can be done in a moral and upright way. He advises the reader to restrain from striving for wealth‚ since a lot of money does not make one very happy‚ and

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    ARISTOTLE THEORY OF JUSTICE APPLIED TO MODERN SOCIETY. The problem about justice has been found present throughout history‚ in this way‚ Aristotle himself and tried to define it‚ dividing it into the so-called Private Law‚ or law of the polis‚ and the Common Law‚ that which is present in nature. The main doctrines define justice‚ as the set of rules and regulations that can regulate conduct between individuals‚ on the permissiveness avalación‚ prohibition and restriction of certain behaviors or

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    and moral responsibility. In Nicomachean Ethics Book I chapter 7‚ Aristotle gives a thorough examination of ‘the good’ and just what it consists of. Along the way he discusses the relationship between happiness and the human function and the nature of virtue. Is final conclusion‚ that the human good is “the soul’s activity that expresses virtue”1 is a bit obscure‚ but his preceding argument is very thoroughly constructed. Aristotle begins his inquiry into ‘the good’ by proposing that the good is

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