The Ideal Person Valerie Hackett REL/133 May 14‚ 2014 Firpo Carr The Ideal Person An ideal person through the eyes of Confucius would follow the rules of Heaven and obey Heavens will. Thus by adhering to the rules of Heaven that person would be morally attuned. Confucius believed that ‘aristocracy of merit’ was more valuable than ‘aristocracy of money’‚ and thus he believed that only the most qualified candidates should get a job‚ especially in civil service. This is one of the
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belief. Using his “Myth of the Cave” Plato contends that sense experience cannot lead to knowledge‚ but in fact knowledge can only be found in ideal models—Forms. I will argue that though false premises and problematic justification of the immortal soul exist as severe challenges to Plato’s epistemological view‚ Plato’s arguments ultimately cannot be concretely proven incorrect nor
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An Ideal Husband Analysis of characters Sir Robert Chiltern The play’s "tragic" hero‚ Sir Robert Chiltern is an accomplished government official‚ considered by all as an ideal husband and model politician. As described in the stage notes‚ Sir Robert has effected a violent separation of thought and emotion in his personality; moreover‚ he suffers from divided loyalties. Though a portrait of distinction and good breeding‚ Sir Robert conceals a blemished past. Extremely ambitious‚ he succumbed to
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David Nguyen 9/11/2011 World History The Judenrat’s Mistake During the holocaust‚ Jews were losing their jobs‚ rights‚ and property. In 1933‚ the Nazi leaders began assigning Jews to handle situations to help the jews in the Ghettos‚ these Jews were known as the Judenrat. The Judenrate weren’t Jewish volunteers‚ they were assigned and given tasks to perform: “Composed of 24 male jews … prescribed as 1) executing German orders‚ 2) taking an improvised census of the Jew in their area‚ 3) executing
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Plato vs. Aristotle Plato and Aristotle‚ two very well known philosophers‚ by definition are knowledge lovers‚ who held different ways of thinking on that of creation‚ politics‚ and love‚ consequently the teacher of Aristotle‚ who was Plato‚ holds different views on all of those matters. Creation‚ the beginning process of life either given from God‚ or an actual "higher form" which was Plato’s idea‚ or passed through from evolution‚ from which Aristotle sided with is one example of their differences
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that is a perfect example of the form itself. To anyone scanning through the forms they might not grasp the full concept Plato is trying to get across. However‚ if time is taken to examine Plato’s theory it can make sense. For Plato everything has a pure form. If you take any property of an object and separate it from the object itself‚ you are left contemplating a form. Plato splits up being into two worlds‚ the material world and the transcendent world of forms. We know of the world of forms
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to not persecute is impious. This is the first definition that Euthyphro offers to Socrates as a definition of piety. Although Socrates says this is a definition of what piety is‚ he says that it is inadequate because it only states one instance of piety. Socrates states that he did not want Euthyphro to tell him one or two of the many pious actions but the form itself that makes all pious actions pious. With the statement‚ all impious actions are impious and all pious actions pious proves that
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The Effective vs. Ineffective Teacher What characteristics should a teacher possess? What Makes a Good Teacher? Video – Effective Teacher • An effective teacher can be seen in the following video: Introduction What does being a teacher mean? • Having a vocation for the teaching profession. • Being dedicated. • Being surrounded by a large number of diverse students‚ each with their own baggage and unique character. Knowledge 1st Characteristic of an effective teacher
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is Hamlet’s tragic flaw?Topic: Hamlet "" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;"> erich12 | Student | eNotes Newbie Posted June 6‚ 2007 at 11:01 AM via web dislike9like What is Hamlet’s tragic flaw? 46 Answers | Add Yours lcassidy | High School Teacher |(Level 1) Assistant Educator Posted June 6‚ 2007 at 11:04 AM (Answer #2) dislike3like A tragic hero is a character who suffers a downfall from a tragic flaw in personality. Hamlet’s
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Hamlet’s distress understandable? Why does he fail to act until too late? Is his inaction due to a tragic flaw? Until relatively recently‚ critics tended to assume that the causes of tragic misfortune resided in some moral defect of the protagonist. Aristotle’s term hamartia (derived from “fault‚” “failure‚” guilt” but literally meaning to “miss the mark”) was often translated as “tragic flaw‚” leading critics to seek the chink in the hero’s armour (such as pride or ambition) which leads to his
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