Achieving the good life John doe PHI 208 Ethics and Moral Reasoning Daniel Beteta 1 February 2013 I grew up in a small Midwest town called Anderson Indiana. Whenever people ask where I’m from and I say Indiana they think corn fields and country living but that’s far from the truth. In my experience I have seen corn fields everywhere but my home state. I have yet to see any farms or anything that would suggest country. One could question the dialect of Indiana residents. It has been said that
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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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Euthyphro – Plato NAME PHI208: Ethics and Moral Reasoning Instructor date Euthyphro – Plato The discussion between Socrates and Euthyphro is one of the most famous Socratic discussions because of the meaning set behind the actions. This discussion is focused on what is the piety or the holiness asked by Socrates to Euthyphro. Socrates appoints Euthyphro to help him understand what piety is as he admits he does not know‚ in order to help with his case against him. They argue
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A good life is one that is rewarding and satisfying. It is also one that is alive to the rewards and satisfactions of others. It is good in the emotional sense‚ that it is colored by happy moods and feelings of satisfaction‚ and in the moral sense‚ that it is true to one’s understanding of right and wrong. In a well-lived life‚ the interests of others will often limit the pursuit of personal rewards and satisfactions. But engaging with the interests of others will more often lead to deeper‚ richer
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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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viewpoints on the meaning of life presented in our text. Throughout the book there has been three viewpoints presented on the meaning of life. The first meaning of life that was presented in our text is the theistic answer. Philosophers such as Leo Tolstoy‚ David F. Swenson‚ Louis P. Pojman‚ Emil L. Fackhenheim‚ and Philip L. Quinn all discuss this viewpoint of the theistic answer. The meaning of theistic answer and what these philosophers discus is that the meaning of life is found in the existence
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Plato‚ student of Socrates‚ and Aristotle‚ student of Plato‚ two of the most influential philosophers to have ever walked the earth‚ take two completely different approaches whilst talking about the formation of city states and epistemology itself. Plato primarily defined the nature of things in theoretical terms through metaphysics‚ in contrast to actual terms. Thus by looking to the ’higher forms’ he aimed to explain the function of existing knowledge and understandings in the search for the ’absolute
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Sigmund Freud How to Cite FAMOUS AS: Neurologist‚ Psychotherapist BORN ON: 06 May 1856 AD BORN IN: Moravia‚ Austrian Empire DIED ON: 23 September 1939 AD NATIONALITY: Austria WORKS & ACHIEVEMENTS: Known for his research and discovery on the subject of Psychoanalysis. Some of his notable achievements have been the practice of transference and being accorded a place at the Royal Society of London. And Admire Sigmund Freud The father of Psychoanalysis‚ Sigmund Freud made a significant contribution
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True Knowledge – Descartes vs. Plato Many philosophers have tried to figure out what exactly true knowledge is. For years they have been asking questions and looking deep into the mind to better understand the methods needed to get to true knowledge. If we go back to some of the earliest philosophers we meet Plato in Greece. Plato tried to take on the question himself in a fictional conversation he wrote up between Socrates and Meno‚ and in which we see some insight to what he believes it is
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Even today‚ people admire the ideas of Socrates‚ Plato‚ and Aristotle. Their teachings are at the root of modern philosophy and science. Alfred Whitehead is quoted as saying: “The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.” If you really know how to read Plato‚ the truth behind this statement is easy to see. Nearly every great philosophical idea was discussed by Plato to some extent. The best way to put it is the way
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