Fall 2013 Civ-II Study Guide for the Final Exam Date and Time: 1:00-3:00pm‚ Friday‚ Dec. 13‚ 2013 Location: Our Classroom ================================================= Instructions: The final exam covers Part 6 and Part 7 (from Chapter 28 to Chapter 33) of the textbook. The slides we used in class have already been uploaded to ANGEL. To prepare for the exam‚ you must combine studying my slides with textbook reading. This exam will be somewhat different from the first two exams
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According to Aristotle the good life is the happy life‚ as happiness is an end in itself. He also believes that all actions aim at the good and that the good is happiness. I believe ‘some’ of Aristotle’s views on the good life are correct but I believe sometimes we can sacrifice our own happiness for someone else’s happiness and the people that don’t have the power to reason do have souls and they are still as human as everybody else. In order to make my point I will first have to explain Aristotle’s
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the good will according to Kant’s categorical imperative. Though Kant’s ethical theory serves as a good foundation for everyday rational people to live by‚ there are certain things in
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itself grow bigger. • Household management is more concerned with human beings than with inanimate property‚ with their virtue more than with its wealth‚ and with the virtue of free people more than with that of slaves. • Temperance‚ virtue‚ justice‚ courage of a man are not the same as of a woman‚ s Socrates supposed; the one courage is that of the ruler‚ the other that of an assistant‚ and similarly in the case of the other virtues too. • For every household is part of a city-state
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actions are such Their life‚ therefore‚ has no further need of pleasure as a sort of adventitious charm‚ but has pleasure in itself." Ethics‚ I.8 Aristotle was a student under Plato‚ and although he did not believe in the metaphysical Forms that Plato so firmly believed in‚ he did apply an element of the theory behind the Forms. Instead‚ what Aristotle postulated was that there was some ultimate‚ some final goal to which we all reach‚ but instead of being some unattainable goal‚ it was very simple:
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ALMA: World`s Largest Telescope Gerald John C. Guillermo Hubble Space Telescope may be awesome but these new radio telescopes in Atacama Desert‚ Chile may be more awesome. Built in the driest place in the Earth‚ the Atacama Large Millimeter Array or ALMA provides the most distinct and the most precise images of local stars and planet formation and can also distinguish the birth of neighboring stars and some of the most distant‚ ancient galaxies. ALMA was initially a 50-50 partnership between the United
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In contemporary society‚ with the development of science and technology and the improvement of mining technology‚ mineral exploitation has become one of the many counties and companies to make profits. Thus‚ the KM‚ which is a limited Australian company want to seek benefits on the rich mineral resources in Africa. I‚ as the business analyst of this Australian investment bank will advise the KM gold mining in Tanzania of Africa. I consider many factors，such as Tanzania is near the coastline which
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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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Abortion according to Aristotle Do you believe that abortion is morally correct? That taking away someone else’s life is an option? That abortion is following the Golden Mean according to Aristotle? Currently‚ many people believe that it can be an option‚ because the baby hasn’t been born yet. But others‚ including Aristotle will disagree. First of all‚ who is Aristotle? Aristotle was a philosopher who thought that an act is morally correct if it follows the Golden Mean. This is an action or a
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Recall: In the essay “Our Knowledge of the World Around Us‚” the author makes a number of points: 1) An external physical world does not exist 2) The only things that are in existence are the human brain and the ideas it generate 3) Perception is the brain’s own interpretation of what happens outside. 4) We are living in a Matrix Summary: The author rejects the concept of common sense or what he calls as “direct realism” that holds that the world is fairly represented as it is. He argues that seeing
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