psychological‚ emotional and social needs met. Evidence of individual flourishing can include family relationships‚ friendships and employment. Virtues are actions that behave in certain ways that lies between two extremes. Aristotle’s moral philosophy of eudaimonia includes five virtues which define flourishing as living a virtuous life (Aristotle‚ 2009). The virtues are: 1. Temperance- Calming one’s bodily passions and desires 2. Wittiness- Being around people who are funny and lighten the mood 3. Spiritedness-
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History suggests that the overwhelming majority of human beings have had to choose between either tyranny or anarchy Correct! True False Question 2 1 / 1 pts The Good Society is what is needed to break the human predicament cycle The Good Society is what is needed to break the human predicament cycle Correct! True False Question 3 1 / 1 pts John Winthrop was an influential Puritan John Winthrop was an influential Puritan Correct! True False Question 4
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List of Odysseus’s Travels Ismaros The people are called Kykones Odysseus met Maron and the Kykones He stayed there for one day He lost 72 men; 0 ships Total lost 72 men; 0 ships Summary of Events: Odysseus decided to raid Ismaros‚ where Maron gave him many gallons of wine. When Odysseus told his men to pull out‚ they mutinied and refused. This gave the Kykones time to recuperate their losses and they in return‚ attacked Odysseus’ men. After substantial time of fighting‚ the men finally
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Lecture 8 Helplessness & happiness • Why did Seligman and maier use a tripartite design? • What are the long term effect sof uncontrollable stressors • What does delta p = 0 Pavlov • Pavlov’s apparatus • 2 different procedures: classical conditioning and then punishment • because using dogs in experiment‚ noticed that if dogs had been through classical conditioning experiments‚ could not be used in avoidance experiments o but adverse for the opposite (avoidance exp dogs 1st could learn
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Report on Employee Health Analysis | November 16 2012 | A detailed analysis regarding the health related issues of Data entry operators where a possible structure of problems and solutions are given after analyzing the data of 50 clerical staffs. | Avijit Mitra MHRM 12HS60007 | Table of Contents Introduction 3 Background 3 Method 4 Objective 5 Problem Analysis 5 Recommendations 7 Conclusion 9 Introduction Staff welfare is an important facility provided by companies
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Pride and self confidence determine your fate. You are either hubristic or you have arête. The problem with hubris is that it can cause a sort of hamartia; it truly is a fatal flaw. In the play Oedipus the King by Sophocles‚ the hubris and hamartia of Oedipus and Jocasta lead them to their drastic fate. Excessive pride and confidence of outsmarting the gods made their tragic prophecy come true. When a prophet comes to Oedipus to tell him who the murderer of Laius is and accuses Oedipus of
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What is sport? Sport: “an organized‚ competitive‚ and skillful physical activity requiring commitment and fair play‚ in which a winner can be defined by objective means. it is governed by a set of rules or customs... Non-competitive activities‚ for example as jogging playing catch‚ are usually classified as forms of recreation.” Physical events such as scoring goals or crossing a line first often define the result of a sport. However‚ the degree of skill and performance in some sport such as
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ethical desicion making. Natural law was thought of by a 13th century monk called Thomas Aquinas. He was inspired by a Greek a posteriori philosopher called Aristotle who came up with the efficient cause and believed that a humans purpose is to reach eudaimonia. Aristotle’s thoughts were inspired by the stoics who were a group of Greek philosophers who believed God is everywhere and in everyone there is a divine spark. Natural law is based on the belief that everyone has a natural sense that ’good is to
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Leading a virtuous life can be both obtainable‚ and enjoyable. Sometimes everyone must consider if what they have done‚ or how they make decisions‚ is acceptable‚ or even logical. As discussed in the paper written by J.N. Hooker entitled‚ “Three Kinds of Ethics”‚ it goes on to describe how the three kinds of ethics are applied‚ and created. To distinguish between the three kinds‚ we must dedicate thought to our actions‚ and consider why we make these choices. Since the world isn’t perfect‚ and we
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Reading: pages 3-21 Key Terms (definitions on page 7): ethics morality descriptive ethics normative ethics metaethics applied ethics instrumentality intrinsically valuable Key ideas: principle of universalizabitlity principle of impartiality Be familiar with The Euthyphro by Plato (pages 16-19) - know Euthyphro’s definition of piety - understand that this is a debate regarding whether or not ethics is an objective or subjective discipline Be familiar with Common-Sense Religion
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