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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win a Super Bowl‚ the year before he retired. I. Introduction My Idol since I’ve been a little kid has always been Jerome Bettis‚ and since I’ve started watching him play I’ve been waiting for the year that he would finally take The Steelers to the Super Bowl. II. Body A) Super Bowl 39- Steelers lose to New England Patriots in AFC Championship B) Jerome Bettis thinks about retiring * Played 12 seasons‚ his career was winding down * Bettis tells team he would love to
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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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"Her Sweet Jerome" is a short story about a married‚ black couple. Their relationship is not working and they don’t really love each other. The female character is lying to herself. She pictures herself as sexy and beautiful but she is described as a big and awkward woman. She is trying to look sexy and attractive‚ so she can cover up her flaws. She is also denying the truth by pretending that her husband finds her attractive‚ when he in fact is disgusted. Their relationship is unhealthy‚ mainly
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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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Jerome Paul Witkin The work of art that I chose is Jeff Davies‚ an oil painting painted in 1976 by Jerome Paul Witkin. It depicts a man‚ presumably named Jeff Davies‚ standing and taking up the entire frame of the picture. He is wearing a plain tee shirt which is stretched over and exposing a bit of his protruding stomach‚ a pair of worn jeans‚ a huge down coat‚ and a hat. He stands in a plain‚ dirty-looking room. At the very bottom of the painting is the edge of a table and a mostly empty plate
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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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pass as Jerome Morrow at GATTACA. In each case explain why he had to do that. Vincent took many of Jerome Marrow’s DNA from his urine‚ fingertip blood‚ and hair‚ so he can pass as Jerome Marrow. Vincent was asked for his urine before he got hired at the job he works‚ so the employers can testify that he is in fact Jerome Marrow. When Vincent was blood tested‚ he had a small device under his fingertips to that was able to hold on to Jerome Marrow’s blood‚ so he then was able to pass as Jerome Marrow
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General analysis of the story entitled “Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel’s coat” I am going to analyse the story entitled “Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel’s coat”. It was written by the American writer whose name is Roald Dahl. This story was written in a matter-of-fact style by means of the third person narration. The author doesn’t participate in this story‚ but he knows all the events. The story combines the elements of both: narration and dialogue. The author makes ample use of dialogue in this story
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