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    ESSAY PAPER INSTRUCTION PHIL 1050.001 and 002: Introduction to Philosophy‚ Spring 2014 a. Introduction As a major assignment for this course‚ you are to write an essay paper on a topic relating to the subject matter of the course and drawing on course material. This should be a new paper‚ written by you individually‚ specifically for this class. You have two options to do this assignment. First option: You can write an essay paper in a rather classic style by selecting one of the listed

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    The soul is the essence of the immortality of living things. It can have many different meanings according to the philosopher. In the Nicomachean Ethics‚ Aristotle believes that every animate being is a living thing because it has a soul. He explains that each living thing cannot exist or function without a soul. In contrast‚ In the Meditations on First Philosophy‚ Descartes believes that the nature of the mind is completely separate from that of the body. He thinks it is possible that both mind

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    waste the gift of a small part of the whole and promote mediocrity. The other option‚ Aristotle’s suggestion‚ is to utilize the gift of the preeminently "excellent" citizen to protect the state’s constitution by making him the ruler of the state. Aristotle further justifies his position by stating that a citizen should not be made the ruler of a state because of his wealth or his ancestry. Unless by some chance wealth or ancestry affects the ability of a citizen to work towards the interests of the

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    especially economic histories of the ‘East’ and the ‘West’. While thus anticipating some later historiographical developments‚ the Marxist historian’s framing of the question remains very much within the paradigm of modernity; his article is entitled Potentialities of Capitalistic Development in the Economy of Mughal India. His work is remarkable in its questing of the simple presumption of a fundamental distinction between the ‘East’ and the ‘West’ and even considering the possibility of capitalistic development

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    (HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT) TOPIC A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF PLATO AND ARISTOTLES POLITICAL THOUGHT WRITTEN BY OKWOR‚ STEPHEN USHIE 09/ED/EF/814 DEPT OF EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONS (POLITICAL SCIENCE UNIT) FACULTY OF EDUCATION SUBMITTED TO DR. EJERE DEPT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE UNIVERSITY OF UYO‚ UYO AKWA IBOM STATE MAY‚ 2012 A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF PLATO AND ARISTOTLES POLITICAL THOUGHT In order to compare these great philosophers‚ it is important

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    sense are based in the body and are consequently unreliable. But we also have an immortal soul– and this soul is the realm of reason and not being physical‚ this soul can survey the world of ideas...Plato also believed the soul existed before it inhabited the body” (Gaarder 88). Aristotle- “What Aristotle called the ‘form’ chicken is present in every single chicken as the chicken’s particular set characteristics– for one‚ that it lays eggs. The real chicken and the form chicken are thus just as

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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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    Plato vs. Aristotle Theatre is said to be a performing art that is always changing and whose every performance is unique (Downs 472). While there is a set definition of theatre‚ there hasn’t been a set reason as to why we do theatre‚ and many people such as Aristotle and Plato have come to a disagreement as to what that very nature is. However as a Christian I would have to say that I disagree with the philosophy of Plato and do believe that theatre helps open the mind of the viewers to see the

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    factors‚ for Plato and Aristotle‚ were critical in the construction of a state? Before one examines the construction of the State in the eyes of two famous classical thinkers‚ one must first understand what a State is. A State can be defined as a group of people settled in a specific geographical location where‚ through interdependency and order‚ a livelihood can be achieved. Plato and Aristotle‚ both great philosophers‚ contributed to the world of politics today‚ their views and ideas on what should be

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    What is the central difference between metaphysics as Kant conceives it‚ and metaphysics as Aristotle conceives it? Argue in support of one or the other view. Metaphysics is usually taken to involve both questions of what is existence and what types of things exist; in order to answer either questions‚ one will find itself using and investigating the concepts of being. Aristotle proposed the first of these investigations which he called ‘first philosophy’‚ also known as ‘the science of being’ however

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