Aristotle’s Politics. They agree that a good ruler will yield a good regime‚ but differ in their opinions of how the perfect regime should be managed. It’s important to note which people qualify as citizens and their status relative to the regime. Both philosophers set out to identify the capabilities and dynamics of all regimes and devise a way to achieve the best possible regime to channel human ambition and desire. Aristotle gives a number of definitions for regime‚ but the one most applicable would
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topics of the day‚ including Philosophy. As the teachings of Aristotle and other Greek philosophers were translated‚ the medieval church began to “Christianize” these philosophical teachings. This new Christianized philosophy would become known as Scholasticism‚ or scholastic theology: the study of philosophy and theology. Scholasticism characterized medieval philosophy and eventually produced a split among philosophers of the day; between those who believed philosophy and theology could exist together
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Many philosophers have addressed and questioned the subject regarding the unity and trinity of God. Yahya Ibn Adi was a philosopher and a Monophysite scholar of the Arab Classical Period who has firmly given treatises of his own interpretation on this subject. This has caused manygfjkfgmngcccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccb scholars and other philosophers to critique his understandings and express their own viewpoints of Yahyah Ibn Adi’s philosophy on the unity and trinity of God. Emilio Platti
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The Republic: Important ideas and arguments. INTRODUCTION The fundamental aim of the Republic is to define justice. In the pursuit to defining justice Socrates engages in a range of discussions in these discussions many important ideas and arguments are presented. This essay will discuss five of the most important ideas and arguments displayed in the Republic as well as stating the reasons for their importance in Plato’s justice argument. The essay concludes
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In 1996 John Hick‚ a British Philosopher‚ was able to trace the history of Theodicy also known as the question of why a benevolent god allows evil to exist. In his text Evil and the God of Love‚ Hick states that there are three major beliefs that exist; The Plotinian Theodicy‚ the Augustinian Theodicy‚ and the Irenaean Theodicy. John Hick however decides to focus a large part of his attention on the Augustinian and Irenaean Theodicy’s. While both have similar explanations to why God can exist with
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Machiavelli VS. Petrarch In the fourteenth century‚ the humanist philosopher Francesco Petrarch wrote a letter entitled How a Ruler Ought to Govern His Sate. Nearly a century later‚ another philosopher by the name of Niccolo Machiavelli wrote a book about governing‚ The Prince. The two documents show many similarities in content and theme. While the two wrote in similar subject matter‚ it is clear that these philosophers possess distinctly different viewpoints on how a ruler should govern. In
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In document 4‚ Pericles describes the Athenian form of democracy and a few of their laws. Pericles showed the importance for all men who are able to participate in government and politics. Document 6 shows a conversation between two Chinese philosophers named Wan Chang and Mencius about how an emperor of Han China was “appointed” to office. Mencius indicated that the emperor himself was not appointed by peasants‚ but by “Heaven”. Documents 2 and 3 show the population differences and document 1
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are more likely to appear. What determines these types of characteristics and ultimately our character as a whole? Early philosophers have said that the ownership of objects determines a huge part of our character‚ but what does it mean to "own" something? The Greek philosopher Plato argues that owning objects is detrimental to a person’s character. Twentieth-century philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre says that not only objects determines a person’s character‚ but that intangible things such as certain
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leader should stay within his country and govern his people only. Lao-tzu and Machiavelli are political philosophers writing in two different lands and two different times. Lao-tzu was an ancient Chinese philosopher from 6th century BC‚ the author of Tao-te Ching‚ and Machiavelli was an Italian philosopher who lived 2000 years after Lao-tzu’s time‚ author of Prince. They are both philosophers but have totally different perspective on how to be a good leader. While both philosopher’s writing is instructive
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” This is where the ideas of these philosophers is evident. However‚ although man of these philosophers aided in the progression of the revolution‚ the ideas of Rousseau influenced Maximilien Robespierre to halt it during his Reign of
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