Ryan Krumins English Honors/5th period Dr. Walton/Mrs. Bessire 8/20/2013 The Good Life When most people are asked what is the “good life”‚ you can bet that 90% of those people would come up with answers such as‚ “being rich” or “winning the lottery.” While money might be a nice benefit to having a good life‚ it sure doesn’t show how successful you are in life. The good life to me is determined on accomplishing or at least striving for the goals set out for yourself. Certain goals that I have
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Nicomachean Ethics‚ chapters one through nine define happiness as the virtuous action of the soul. On the contrary‚ in chapter ten‚ happiness is described as contemplation. Happiness is connected with morality because it is a result of living a life that abides to a set of morals. The highest form of happiness is contemplation. Therefore‚ through morality‚ contemplation can be reached‚ in turn leading to happiness. However‚ Immanuel Kant would disagree with Aristotle on the grounds of what
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What is the hedonist view about the good life? Assess one major problem it faces. Hedonists believe that a good life is one that contains the greatest amount of happiness possible and goes well ‘to the extent that it is filled with pleasure and free of pain’. A problem that will be assessed is the idea of ‘false happiness’ where a person believes that they have led a good‚ happiness-filled life‚ unaware that this happiness is based upon false beliefs. Hedonism begins with the premise that there
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Aristotle and the Good Life Dr. Ari Santas I. Three Paths of Excellence The good life—eudaemonia—for Aristotle‚ was a function of our fulfilling our distinctively human function‚ and fulfilling it with excellence (doing it well). The concept of excellence‚ arete‚ is what we today call virtue. In pursuit of excellence‚ Aristotle identified three kinds of human virtue‚ or‚ paths of excellence: personal excellence‚ intellectual excellence‚ and interpersonal excellence. A. Moral Virtue
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poem is about? Submit Report Poem Stream Nightingale Midnights Voice Its been so long since its been used Who would want to? its battered and bruised... And it always leaves her so confused... She starts to flip the pages Coming to one of her many life stages But this one is the one that causes all the pain She rips out the page The feeling is like being set free Out of a cage She loves it She keeps ripping And tearing It’s like sipping Water after you’ve had none Top 500 Poems Phenomenal Woman
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The Woolly Mammoth‚ or scientifically known as the Mammuthus Primigenius‚ are ancient mammals of the elephant family. Most of the Mammuthus Primigenius population was in North America. The remains of the Mammuthus’ have also been found in the northern parts of Asia‚ Africa and Europe. The first Mammoths roamed the earth in the Pliocene epoch and until the end of the Pleistocene epoch; which was also categorized as the Cenozoic era and Tertiary period. The last of the large woolly mammoths started
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University of Phoenix Material Workplace Communication Comparison Complete the following matrix. For each communication method‚ list its purpose in the workplace‚ whether it is a technical or expository form of written communication‚ and why you classified it as such. Written communication methodPurpose in the workplaceTechnical or expository writingWhy the classification was chosenE-mailEmail is used to commuincate in the work place between employees and customersexpository MemoMemo
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My view on life itself Loretta Brown ENG 121 English Composition I Leontine Armstrong June 10‚ 2013 Wednesday‚ November 16‚ was supposed to an ordinary day for my brothers and I. Little did we know it would turn out to be one of the saddest days of all our lives. The last day we would see or hear from our mother. My mother was a very well-known person. She loved helping and feeding people even if she didn’t know them. As far as I can remember my mother had her struggles and battles with
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What is the good life and how may it be achieved? This question has been one of hot debate conceivably since the dawn of philosophical discussion. Specifically‚ the topic this essay will be covering is the question of whether or not the good life may be achieved through the continuous satisfaction of whatever desire be present without any possible physical‚ social‚ or religious consequences. While at first this situation may seem to be the fictitious fantasy of a hedonist‚ the implications of the
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inherently good and bad. Each person should create individual boundaries‚ where good things are “after my constitution” and bad things prevent it. Emerson speaks against the conventional teachings of being a good person and says that if a concept or idea further portrays your individuality and self-reliance‚ then it is automatically a good idea. 8. Emerson tells the reader
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