Mesopotamians had a unique belief about the afterlife that was tied to their regions beliefs. For example one key point I notice about the Mesopotamians is that they believe life is not over when someone dies. Mesopotamians had a strong beliefs about death also‚ they saw death as inescapable. This is shown in short story of The Epic Of Gilgamesh. Gilgamesh went on a long journey and became animal-like looking for a way to become immortal. However he found a way to become immortal it was stolen
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Aristotle and Friendship According to Aristotle‚ there are three kinds of friendship based on three kinds of love that unite people. Aristotle defines friendship through the word‚ philia. Philia is the emotional bond between human beings which provides the basis for all forms of social organizations‚ common effort‚ and personal relationships between people. The three kinds of friendship Aristotle explains are utility‚ pleasure‚ and complete friendship. Friendship based on mutual utility
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adventure into Hell with Dante and Virgil. Afterlife is when people live in Heaven or Hell after they have died. Hell is a place where the bad go and get punished in many different ways. Dante’s view of the afterlife is much different than today’s view of afterlife. A sin is when you commit an illegal act in the eyes of God. It’s a violation of God and the ten commandments. When you arrive to Hhell you are given a specific area where you go‚ and depending on what you did during your lifetime you will be punished
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Ethics and Aristotle A married couple‚ both addicted to drugs‚ is unable to care for their infant daughter. She is taken from them by court order and placed in a foster home. The years passed. She comes to regard her foster parents as her real parents. They love her as they would their own daughter. When the child is 9 years old‚ the natural parents‚ rehabilitated from drugs‚ begin court action to regain custody. The case is decided in their favor. The child is returned to them‚ against her
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in that one must only be concerned with his/her business and not minding other’s problems. The justice that occurs in their society depends on the class to whom one belongs. However‚ Aristotle‚ his student‚ was more for all-encompassing justice aiming for the ultimate goal of the constitution. Equality‚ for Aristotle‚ depends on the constitution in which the society is built upon. For democracy‚ it promotes equality for those who are equal‚ but only for those who are equal. Elaborating on this‚ equality
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Aristotle’s insistence that all specifically unjust actions are motivated by pleonexia Pleonexia can be understood as the desire to have more of some socially availablegood‚ and is usually translated as greed or acquisitiveness. Close . Second‚ Aristotle does not identify a deficient vice with respect to justice. This violates his "golden mean" doctrine with respect to virtue. Without the identification of the deficient vice with respect to justice‚ then justice must not be a virtue of character
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According to Aristotle‚ Form * Is that which disciplines‚ directs and constrains matter. * You are a bit of matter come to existence with various forms that are within. If the form of being triangle makes it possible to have a certain degree‚ then your form should be giving you that kind of necessity. Forms bring you into reality. When form brings discipline‚ structure‚ through time in the universe does it do through discipline. Determinism is whatever is going on is the only way things
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The afterlife is where all the souls go after their host dies‚ but it all depends on what that soul during its life to determine where it stay forever. The Ancient Greeks‚ Egyptians‚ and Mayans all believed that once you die your soul goes to a place either a paradise or hellish place. They were all separated by hundreds of years and were thousands of miles away on different continents. Oddly they all share the same beliefs on the afterlife. The Ancient Greeks believed that the soul good or bad
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Am Phronesis According to Aristotle and his theories‚ there are two basic types of intellectual virtues by which we live our lives. The two intellectual virtues that he speaks of are wisdom and phronesis. Wisdom is a virtue that we are able to gain and increase throughout our lives through experience and time. Of the two different intellectual virtues that Aristotle speaks of‚ wisdom is more of a scientific knowledge‚ it is the type of knowledge that would be expected of an intellect. While
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Nehemas & Aristotle For Nehemas‚ friendship is a moral state where one treats a specific group of people with preference. Where one neglects neglecting moral value in order to give those specific people that specific treatment. The values of friendship distinguish us from each other and make us different in the sense that opposites attract or it makes us interesting to each other. He says that there are different types of friends. Casual‚ close and in between. The close friends are very special
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