Comedy and Tragedy | | Comedy According to Aristotle (who speculates on the matter in his Poetics)‚ ancient comedy originated with the komos‚ a curious and improbable spectacle in which a company of festive males apparently sang‚ danced‚ and cavorted rollickingly around the image of a large phallus. (If this theory is true‚ by the way‚ it gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "stand-up routine.") Accurate or not‚ the linking of the origins of comedy to some sort of phallic
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Ancient Greece. In the Nicomachean Ethics‚ Aristotle said that‚ “Without friends‚ no one would want to live‚ even if he had all other goods.” He obviously believed that the love that comes from friendship‚ or philia‚ was the most important thing the someone could hope to obtain. Philia is a consistent theme that shows up in many Greek texts‚ including Aristotle’s
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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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Kohinoor Mills Limited Submitted By: Faisal Qaiser Shehzad Section: C Instructor: Sumaira Sajjad Lahore School of Economics Working capital is a financial measurement that shows the amount of operating liquidity available to a business. The working capital of KML was a positive 598649621 showing that the business had plenty of current assets available to it in order to meet its current obligations. It remained negative from FY09-FY11 after which things started to get better and the working capital
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Mill believes that an action is right and permissible when it causes the best consequence compared to its other choices or alternatives. Mill`s theory defenses utilitarianism that is the greatest happiness possible. Mill explains that the supreme principle of morality is the act that can produces`` as much happiness as possible‚ each person counting equally``
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Troy Maxson as a tragic hero‚ and tragic plot were evident throughout the play. Also‚ the feeling of catharsis at the end-which is proper of tragedy‚ was clearly identifiable. I. Fences fits into the tragic genre based on the points given by Aristotle. In Poetics‚ he defines tragedy as "the imitation of an action that is serious and also as having magnitude‚ complete in itself." • Aristotle’s idea is that the plot has a beginning middle and end and all parts follow each other in concise fashion
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What Is Poetry? by John Stuart Mill It has often been asked‚ What Is Poetry? And many and various are the answers which have been returned. The vulgarest of all--one with which no person possessed of the faculties to which poetry addresses itself can ever have been satisfied--is that which confounds poetry with metrical composition; yet to this wretched mockery of a definition many have been led back by the failure of all their attempts to find any other that would distinguish what they have been
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Summary: The Rational Life-Aristotle Everything done is meant to be for only good reasons. Everything we do is to cause a better outcome for another purpose which leads to pleasure for something else. There must be some end. There is an ultimate point to life. Living well and doing well are both linked to happiness although the definition of happiness is different to many people. The unwise people think that happiness is plain and simple things like pleasure‚ wealth‚ and honor. Some people
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the last pluralism which is reality is many. Hierarchy is rooted at pluralism. First we need to define hierarchy as the ancients defined it. Hierarchy is defined as the higher incorporated and transfigure the lower and the lower images the higher. Aristotle outline of hierarchy is the perfect example of how hierarchy works and it defines hierarchy by itself. The lowest level is the inanimate which are simply characterized by their self-identity which is the tendency of something to remain it self and
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