Virtue is a broad term used in ethics‚ it identifies with the moral character of a person where some other ethic theories focus on duties and roles or the consequences of an action. Virtue ethics has been broken down into three main theories: eudaimonism‚ agent-based theories‚ and the ethics of care. Eudaimonism is based on human flourishing or a person achieving their purpose well. An agent-based theory are based on what other people think are admirable traits in people that are thought to be common-sense
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abundant evidence for strong similarities in Aristotle and Confucius’s outlooks concerning ethics. Emerging from the point that both of their works can be classified as examples of virtue ethics and building upon the numerous areas of convergence between them too it is clear that both Aristotelian and Confucian virtue ethics can be discussed in terms with each other and are not exclusionary of the ideas or concepts‚ nor the internal workings‚ of the other. With this‚ then‚ two very different cultural
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Allegory of the Cave and seminal science-fiction film The Matrix at first glance seem to have nothing in common. The first is written and set in the ancient times‚ revolving around Socrates telling his follower Glaucon about chained prisoners in a primitive cave watching shadow puppets lighted by a fire burning at the cave’s opening. The latter is a futuristic story set in a world controlled by artificial-intelligent computers that created the Matrix‚ a virtual world programmed for the humans to live in
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NOTES for “The Four Cardinal Virtues” Prudence: The virtue of prudence is the mold and mother of all the other cardinal virtues‚ of justice‚ fortitude‚ and temperance. For Pieper the fact that people feel strange when they hear the discussion of prudence occur indicates that they are genuinely lost in terms of the relationship to Western culture. “…there is a larger significance in the fact that people today can respond to this assertion of the pre-eminence of prudence only with incomprehension
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Victor Mardikian Mr. Garner ELA 8A May 6‚ 2011 The Matrix Dystopian Film Analysis The film‚ The Matrix took place in both a virtual reality and the real world. The hero‚ Neo‚ tried to understand how he was chosen to be “the one.” His goal was to fight off the agents who were not only computer programs but also the gatekeepers of the Matrix; therefore‚ Neo and Morpheus had to fight off the agents so that the human race would cease to be manipulated and used for energy. Since Neo
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h * "A best friend is the sister God forgot to give you". * Friends are the sailors who guide your rickety boat safely across the dangerous waters of life * Each friend represents a world in us‚ a world possibly not born until they arrive. * Things are never quite as scary when you have a best friend. * Friendship isn’t a big thing - it’s a million little things. * The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with‚ never saying a word‚ and walk away feeling
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Neo: A Struggle of Identity "The Matrix...the war between man and machine‚ and the possibility that reality is a hoax."(Clover 10) The Matrix in a sense is a constant struggle of identity and the real. The struggle of identity and the real in the Matrix is based around the character of Neo. Neo throughout the film is engulfed in a constant struggle of finding himself‚ his purpose‚ and also what reality actually is. In our world today humans are faced with the same identity and reality struggles
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Plato‚ Descartes‚ and The Matrix Compared and Contrasted and Other Various Contemplations Regarding Reality Liza Cheek Liberty University Plato‚ Descartes‚ and The Matrix Compared and Contrasted and Other Various Contemplations Regarding Reality The Matrix movie had many similarities with the readings from Plato and Descartes. All three discussed the scenario in which reality was discovered to be a non-reality. Specifically‚ in The Matrix‚ reality that was experienced by multitudes of people
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Brad Davies Sociology 11:00-12:15 a.m. MW 2/20/2010 Swanson Movie Paper 1) In the movie The Matrix‚ Keanu reeve stars as a character whose world is based on a futuristic reality. This fact plays the role to why this movie demonstrates social imagination. The basis is that the individuals in the movie have to be aware of their enemies‚ the machines and artificial intelligence. Social imagination is also expressed through the virtual reality the humans go into where they have certain advantages
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Virtue is defined as behavior showing high moral standards. Seneca makes virtue his main idea of the passage “On Liberal and Vocational Studies”‚ giving his belief as to what it takes to be virtuous. Seneca believes liberal arts do not convert people to virtue rather gives them the ability to do well‚ yet this allows one to not have control and freedom of their mind. Being virtuous comes from morals and or second nature. When virtuous one obtains qualities of kindliness‚ temperance‚ and wisdom.
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