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    Aristotle Tragic Hero

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    he becomes a tragic hero.”_1 In Aristotle’s own words‚ “a man cannot become a hero until he can see the root of his own downfall.” This statement gives the gist of Aristotle’s concept of a tragic hero. A hero must fall from grace and must be able to clearly comprehend the cause of his fall. The “fall” must take place due to an error in judgement that arises out of some flaw (hamartia) in the character of the hero. “According to Aristotle a tragic hero is a person of exalted position who on account

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    The aims and purpose of history can be evaluated through the study of historians and their audiences. The differing methods of collecting and using sources and evidence has caused countless debates between historians and other academics from Herodotus‚ the ’Father of History’ to G.R Elton and his views on objective truth. Similarly Stuart Macintyre’s "The Historian’s Conscience" debates and discusses the issues surrounding evidence‚ time and motives of historians. The aim of history according to

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    My Aim In Life

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    Aim of my life It is said that aimless life is a miserable life. Aimless life is like that when a person starts journey but he don’t know that has to go in which direction. An aimless life is like a person without destination. So it is necessary to have a life with clear aim that you know in which way you want to go and what is your destination. Aim of my life is to be an army officer ‚ I know that life of army is full of difficulties‚ sorrows and limited social life but its my childhood ambition

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    Business Organisations Dear James‚ An aim is something they want to achieve. These can be long or short term plans‚ probably over the next three to five years. Businesses will probably want to focus on one or more of the following areas; profit and profit maximisation‚ survival‚ break even‚ growth‚ market share‚ service provision‚ develop their relationship with other businesses. SMART objectives is a mnemonic to guide people when they set objectives‚ often called Key Performance Indicators

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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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    Aims of the New Deal

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    Aims of the new deal The aims of the new deal are relief‚ recovery and reform relief is for the old the sick and the unemployed their were many different agencies for all the different aims but some were for more then one section of the new deal the ones for the relief part are CCC CWA FERA The what they do are CCC = civilian conservation cos they gave young men new jobs‚ food and a small wage relief from unemployment the jobs they got given were jobs like clearing land‚ planting trees

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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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    Excerpts from Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics – Book II W. D. Ross translation Book II 1     Virtue‚ then‚ being of two kinds‚ intellectual and moral‚ intellectual virtue in the main owes both its birth and its growth to teaching (for which reason it requires experience and time)‚ while moral virtue comes about as a result of habit‚ whence also its name (ethike) is one that is formed by a slight variation from the word ethos (habit). From this it is also plain that none of the moral virtues

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    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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    (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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