Filial piety requires emotional care‚ not just financial support Recent family tragedies have sparked discussions on the relationship between children and their parents in the local community. Filial piety has long been the core value of Chinese culture‚ but tragedies and a rising trend of living alone in advanced age‚ later-life depression and abuse of the elderly raise concerns about whether filial obligations for the care of ageing parents are in decline. The impact of intergenerational relationships
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Themes‚ Ideas & Arguments Piety Piety is the central topic of discourse in Euthyphro. Socrates and Euthyphro spend most of this dialogue debating back and forth‚ attempting to define what might be common to all holy acts. Despite this unified focus of their conversation‚ however‚ the two men remain unable to formulate any clear‚ uncontroversial definition of piety. Euthyphro makes several attempts‚ defining piety as prosecution of civil offenders‚ as that which is dear to the gods‚ as that which
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In the beginning of the Pursuit of Holiness‚ Bridges starts the book off with the principle that everyone is required to live a holy life before the sight of God. We are all to live a holy life but one may ask what does it mean to be holy? Defining the word holy one may describe it as to live a life that is morally faultless. "When the true term of holy is to be separated from sin and‚ therefore‚ consecrated to God." As we attempt to live a holy life why do we so often fail at exemplifying the essence
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In the trial of Socrates‚ I juror number 307‚ Ryan Callahan vote the defendant is Not Guilty on the first charge of Corrupting the youth. My justifications for this vote are as follows. Socrates didn ’t corrupt the youth‚ he just shared his ideas with them and they in turn chose the path to take these ideas. Part of understanding this case is understand the time in which the case was held. This time being 399 B.C.‚ a time in which Athens was a free democratic city‚ a town which prided itself
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Philosophy Professor Ravi Sharma In 80D Meno asks: “How will you look for it‚ Socrates‚ when you do not know at all what it is? How will you aim to search for something you do not know at all? If you should meet with it‚ how will you know that this is the thing that you did not know?” I believe this question warrants an in-depth inquiry of general sorts. Meno asked this question when he could not define a standard of virtue like Socrates had asked. That is why it’s easier to think of this question as just
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This quote from The Trial and Death of Socrates demonstrates acts in themselves are neither unjust nor just‚ and the perception by the person deciding whether the act is unjust or just‚ is the determining factor in the matter. In this case‚ Euthyphro‚ the man who said this‚ originally believes the act of murder is unjust‚ and believes he should in fact proceed against his father‚ even though in most perceptions it is considered impious; and although Socrates it is considered impious‚ Euthyphro’s
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Astride Victor Sociology 101 Prof. Michael Fraser December 6‚ 2012 Explain and discuss Sociology concepts. State assumptions and provide examples from the articles to support and strengthen your point of view. Offer your opinion. Write references correctly using the ASA format. c) Ten other sociological concepts (five from each article) Symbol: Is anything a sound‚ a gesture‚ an image‚ an object that represents something else. Refer to the article‚ the 12 year old Autumn
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Discuss the concept of cultural capital Pierre Bourdieu developed the concept of cultural capital in order to attempt to explain the differences in educational outcomes in France during the 1960’s. Cultural capital is theorised as the forms of knowledge‚ skill‚ education; any advantages a person has which‚ give them a higher status in society‚ including high expectations (Nick Stevenson‚ 1995.pp.46-48). This differentiates economic and social status from the class agenda which‚ is rigidly
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Discuss the core concepts of marketing for the travel and tourism sector Marketing in the travel and tourism sector is an important factor in making a travel business successful in terms of market share. Within marketing there a numerous known concepts that piece together the defined definition of marketing‚ these include the customer’s needs‚ wants and demands‚ products and services and value. Core concepts In the process of marketing your business it is important to factor in your customers wants
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Socrates was one of the greatest philosophers of all time who questioned many individuals about their beliefs on ideas and thoughts that they take for granted by feeling that they know knowledge on a particular subject but utterly find out that they obtain no knowledge or wisdom on that subject that they felt so strongly about‚ which in turn‚ ended up being embarrassing to that individual. However Socrates feels that if he did not live and examined his life would have been pointless because he would
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