A good life is not a specific way of life for every person. For each person‚ the meaning of a good life differs. What ever way of life a person is comfortable and happy with counts as a good life for that person. in my opinion‚ a good life is when i have as much control as possible over my life so that i can change anything i don’t like into something i am happy with. With the control i want over my life i would also like to be able to let things go freely when ever i feel like it and " go with
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Confucius and Plato Confucius and Plato were two of the most respected and widely known thinkers. There philosophies of how people should be governed‚ what characteristics make for a good leader‚ and other thoughts have influenced many aspects of the ancient and present world. Confucius and Plato’s ideas have benefited their own civilizations and later civilizations‚ and they both shared many similarities and differences in their ideas. First‚ Confucius‚ a Chinese thinker and the founder of Confucianism
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Essay‚ Draft 1 In the Pursuit of Good life In this very society‚ everyone is in the pursuit of good life. What is a good and happy life? There are many opinions as to what the so called “good life” is. Some people believe that the good life is attainable through education‚ while others believe that following a rule of conduct would leave you leading the good life. Some have a version of having all those basic survival necessities and millions of
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hat is considered a good life? Herodotus and Epicurus presents readers there depiction of a good life in their works‚ Persian Wars and “Letter to a Friend‚” respectively. The ideas of a good life presented by Herodotus in Persian Wars and by Epicurus in “Letter to a Friend” both share identical aspects of a good life‚ but at the same time both works are distinct from one another. One similarity between the two writers’ idea of a good life is that one must have respect for the divine whether it be
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Paper 1: The Good Life Living “the good life” can have a different meaning to each individual. I personally believe “the good life” is made up of the all the little things that make you happy‚ the goals you set out to accomplish‚ your relationships with family and friends‚ and what people will remember about you after you are gone. However‚ I think there is a mutual understanding of what a “good life” really is. “The good life” is discovering and fulfilling your life’s purpose‚ overcoming personal
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is a good life? In today’s world‚ humans are often misled on what really is a good life. We are constantly shown through the television and magazines that being rich and famous is the way to go when it comes to a good life‚ when in truth many of them are miserable by problems that usually wouldn’t affect the common person. In truth there are only a few that are rich and famous and do achieve what can probably considered one of the greatest achievement’s by a man which is having a good life. In my
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Abundant Life Have you ever wanted to find the answer to your problems and live in such a state without the misconceptions of reality? According to Plato everything in our world is just an image of the perfect object. In The Cave by Plato he describes how these people are chained up and they see these shadows on the wall. These shadows are an example of the objects we see in our everyday life (the visible world). Plato says that there is such a presence of “The Good” and that this Good rules this
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Demonstrating a Good Life There are various incidents in the story of Gilgamesh that demonstrates the way to live a good life. Throughout the years that in many different things to enlighten your life. For instance‚ "Don’t go where money is go where your heart is‚" Remove negative thoughts‚ and charity begins at home. The Epic of Gilgamesh was always considered to be the greatest work of ancient Mesopotamia and the earliest of the world literature. The main character Gilgamesh went through many
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Sub areas of philosophy Metaphysics – what is? Epistemology – what can I know? Ethics – what ought to be? Logic- what is good reasoning? Plato Student of Socrates There are no recorded teaching of Socrates Plato three different periods- early middle and late Middle- what is ethics and what is morality? Morality- give back to what is due. Is morality the following of a rule or is it something more involved? Do you really achieve obedience by punishing? Thrasymuchas- morality is
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What makes a person’s life good? Is it virtue? Pleasure? Power? In Plato’s Gorgias‚ though didn’t end up with a mutual agreement‚ Socrates and Callacles fight each other’s views and quarrel to come to a conclusion of the meaning of a good life. What is a good life in Socrates’ perspective? In order to get his point across‚ Socrates first phrases the question of what is more shameful - doing what is unjust or suffering what is unjust. For him‚ doing what is unjust is more shameful than suffering
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