and on more popular subjects (rhetoric‚ ethics‚ and politics) in the evening. He also collected a celebrated library‚ and with his students compiled descriptions of 158 constitutions. During this period he probably composed most of his greatest treatises‚ including much of the Politics. After his wife’s death he took a mistress‚ Herpyllis of Stagira‚ who gave birth to Nicomachus‚ after whom the Nicomachean Ethics was named. This work is probably Aristotle’s revision of an earlier work‚ the Eudemian
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Hypatia of Alexandria Hypatia was born in 370 A.D. in Alexandria‚ Egypt. From that day on her life was one enriched with a passion for knowledge. Theon‚ Hypatia’s father whom himself was a mathematician‚ raised Hypatia in an environment of thought. Both of them formed a strong bond as he taught her his own knowledge and shared his passion in the search of answers to the unknown. Under her fathers discipline he developed a physical routine for her to ensure a healthy body as well as a highly
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Hume’s Problem Of Induction In A Treatise of Human Nature‚ Hume challenges the traditional theories of causality‚ the idea that one can make an observation about two events and infer a new claim concerning the conjunction of the first event and the “resulting” second event. Instead of accepting this notion of causality‚ Hume questions the certainty of matters of fact and more specifically induction. Hume states there are two distinct types of knowledge: relations of ideas and matters of fact
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face us which are philosophical — they are ethical. … some of the most We need real ethicists — we need people that are trained in ethical philosophy‚ not just a kind of modern book on ethics. I mean if you read classical ethical treatises‚ they are philosophical treatises that teach people how to reason ethically — not simply having a hadith that tells you some ethical truism‚ but to reason ethically‚ because if we had people reasoning ethically‚ we would never have come up with fatwas that supported
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the home. Also‚ in the Two Treatises of Government‚ Locke states “the power of the society or legislative constituted by them can never be supposed to extend farther than the common good‚ but is obliged to secure every one’s property ...” (165). For instance‚ the Fifth Amendment protects people’s attributes from the government by stating that the government cannot take someone’s property for public use. The Fifth Amendment is a significant point in Locke’s Two Treatises of Government. Thus‚ the supremacy’s
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that may be the product of these relations. These children created problems for the success of Australian society‚ because they faced rejected from European and Aboriginal communities for being too closely related to the ‘other’. Given that this treatise was published in Sydney‚ and with a foreword from anthropologist E.P. Elkin‚ we can assume that this audience was relatively educated and located in New South Wales. There were many anxieties in Australia in the
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the Catholic Church. His ethics‚ though always influential‚ gained renewed interest with the modern advent of virtue ethics. All aspects of Aristotle’s philosophy continue to be the object of active academic study today. Though Aristotle wrote many elegant treatises and dialogues (Cicerodescribed his literary style as "a river of gold")‚[2] it is thought that the majority of his writings are now lost and only about one-third of the original works have survived.[3] Aristotle’s Ethics Aristotle conceives of
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ARCHITECTURE & PHILOSOPHY: THOUGHTS ON BUILDING Dr.-Ing. Markus Breitschmid‚ Architect‚ S.I.A. Assistant Professor of Architecture School of Architecture + Design Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University 201 Cowgill Hall Blacksburg‚ Virginia 24061-0205 United States of America breitschmid@vt.edu Abstract It is a legitimate assertion that most major figures who have shaped the course of architecture can be described as “theoreticians who build.” What distinguishes these architects
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The history of U.S. family structures can be interpreted as a broad movement from uniformity to diversity. The Victorian era ended in 1901 and along with it‚ so did the desire for uniformity. Families no longer felt the need to conform to every social construction and both women and men were more free to express themselves as individuals. In the 20th century‚ families became more modern and diverse‚ and the old ways of the Victorians were set aside to make room for originality and authenticity.
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Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince‚ also known as Il principe‚ is a short treatise for Renaissance leaders on how to acquire and maintain political power (Kuiper‚ “The Prince”). It is a reflection of his political experience‚ a collection of advice Machiavelli had learned over the course of his political career. This essay will first explain and analyze the key ideas of The Prince and Machiavelli’s method of expression before putting the book in the larger context of the Renaissance and its contemporary
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