The Highest Good Is Like Water In the eighth chapter of Laozi’s Daodejing‚ there is a famous saying‚ “The highest good is like water.” In my opinion‚ water has three main characteristics: flowing downhill‚ purifying dirt and benefiting everything without contending‚ which are also possessed by the highest good. Water always flows downhill and so does the highest good. Water is always in accordance with its natural tendency—flowing downhill by gravity. During the flowing period‚ it evaporates
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of Phaedrus‚ Socrates has an interesting discussion Agathon instead of a monologue-styled story. Socrates actually starts by giving Agathon a series of questions about love. Socrates goes on to ask Agathon if a father must be father to something in order to be called a father. Then Socrates asks Agathon whether the same principle applies to mothers and brothers; one must be a brother or mother to someone or something else. Agathon agrees with all of these examples‚ but then Socrates asks "Does Love
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How we Achieve Happiness Name of Student: Course Title: Instructor’s Name: April 14‚ 2014 In the history of happiness‚ Socrates had a different place in the history of the West since he was the pioneering philosopher to reason that happiness occurred through human effort. Socrates existed in Greece around 460 BC in a place where happiness existed as a preserve of the people favored by the god only. The perception of hubris existed where one could only attain happiness
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six primary functions of managenment‚which go hand in hand with the principle. “Fayol 14 principle” was one of the earliuest theories of management to be create‚and remains‚one of the modern comprehensive.he’s considered to be among the most influential contributors to the modern concept of management‚ even though people don’t refer to”the 14 principle “often today.. The theory falls under the administrative management HENRI FAYOL’S OF MANAGEMENT FIVE functions of management
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‘The highest Christian law is love’ Assess this view Christianity is both legalistic and antinomian‚ which sounds quite paradoxical as legalistic means that there are rules for every situation‚ and antinomian means that there are no rules. I don’t mean this directly but it contains parts of both. Christianity is legalistic‚ this is quite obvious as the Bible is full of commandments and stories stating what you shall or shall not do. For example ‘Love your neighbor as yourself’ (Mark 12:31). However
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REFLECTION PAPER ON THE NATURE OF HUMAN BEING & REASON FOR BEING Nature of Human Being: How one does defines Human Nature? A lot has been said about how we evolved as humans and where we came from. There is lots of theories‚ scientific‚ religion‚ magic etc… but truth is‚ we never stop looking and seeking where we really came from. With a lot of assumptions‚ I guess it is a nature of us humans to always get curious and conscious about everything especially if it is something that affects
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Philosophy 1000C Final Paper The Human Being and Living The Good Life This paper contains the different definitions of what it means to be a human being and living a good life. In this paper we will take a look at Hobbes and Augustine’s definition of the human being and the good life. Both of these philosophers give examples of what they think the good life is‚ and the desires of human nature. In this paper I will talk about Augustine and his thought of how in order to live a good life‚ one
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Is abortion an act of murdering a human being? Many will argue that abortion isn’t wrong on the basis that a fetus is not a human being; however‚ many will argue that abortion is wrong because its taking a human life‚ no matter what stage of pregnancy it is in. In my paper I will argue that life begins at conception and arrive at the conclusion that abortion is killing a human being. As well as providing premises for my view‚ I will also provide an objection to my argument. Whatever leads up
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Socrates Essay Brian Isaac PHI/105 May 21‚ 2012 Most people know the word “knowledge” to mean something that individuals acquire through experience or education‚ but is there a deeper meaning to this word. Is knowledge something that most of us already have installed deep down within? Socrates believed that a person cannot come to know something they have no knowledge of what to look for. Socrates do not think that learning comes from discovering. He believes that knowledge comes
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Earth is being harmed by human activity. Humans already made the earth being damaged and it is because of their own activity. In this essay I will describe how people can damaged the earth in more specific like in environment problems. Humans are responsible for taking what they believe is theirs and finding ways to destroy it. Human activity is a behavior or the way that people doing in this environment in a good or bad ways. There are two topics of my essay that will support my opinion to agree
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