Aristotle once wrote “The excess of virtue is a vice” and nothing illustrates this lesson quite as clearly as Dante’s Inferno‚ as he travels through the depths of hell and learns of the unfortunate souls who reside there - some of who knowingly committed the most heinous and crimes against humanity‚ but also those who simply took the virtues they were taught to live by to unreasonable lengths until they became their very undoing. A section of hell has been reserved for those who were uncommitted
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Mistakes Leading to New Colors Many animals in the world are different sizes and colors‚ but we never really found out why they are those sizes and colors. For instance‚ we have black bears‚ grizzly bears‚ which are brown‚ and polar bears which are white. Nobody told us how these bears got their colors. Another unexplained colored animal is the flamingo. Why is the flamingo pink? Well‚ it was actually an accident that turned the flamingo pink. The flamingos were not meant to be pink. They were
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1. What dangers do you see from increasing globalisation in a world economy? Globalisation refers to the integration and interdependence of the world economy and can be seen by the fact that communications‚ media and business spans the world‚ not just one given economy or even type of economy. Boyes (2011‚ p.6) reports that there are now close to 40‚000 transnationals companies‚ and increase of 300% on just 25 years ago‚ and that these companies make up approximately 33% of all private-sector
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Businesses are completely incompatible with virtue ethics. Discuss. Business ethics is concerned with how well a business treats its stakeholders and whether a business’s actions are seen as ethical. Within business ethics there are three approaches which could be adopted. The first approach is that a business’s main goal could be to maximise profits and nothing more‚ where the ethics of the business wouldn’t necessarily be important. This view is supported by Milton Friedman. Secondly‚ some ethicists
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Interpretation of Ethical Virtues “An ethical virtue is a habit‚ disposed towards action‚ by deliberate choice‚ being at the mean relative to us‚ and defined by reason and as a prudent man would define it” (The Nicomachean Ethics‚ Book Beta‚ 1107a). Book Beta of The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle revolves around the central concept of virtue‚ in particular‚ ethical virtue. An ethical virtue is comprised of several components‚ the first of which is habit. He believes that ethical virtues are acquired by habituation;
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After Socrates explores the components of a just society‚ his reply to Glaucon is further explained by arguing for the soul’s division and also‚ more specifically‚ the account of the Tyrant. Plato has refuted each of Glaucon’s points in order to make Socrates reply more successful. The tyrannical man is the most unjustly man. He indulges in all his pleasures and sinks further into degeneracy (578a). Because of his desires and conflict to suffice his desires‚ he is left to resort to unjustly and
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this paper is to explore what Aristotle’s view of virtue is. However‚ it is important to also discuss how other philosophers view virtue‚ and how they critique Aristotle’s main points. By observing these different viewpoints‚ we can decide if what Aristotle believes is a sufficient concept for ethics today. Aristotle defines virtue in his Nicomachean Ethics and the two different types of virtue that he believes in‚ which are Moral and Intellectual virtue. He is then followed and critiqued by St. Thomas
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In 380 B.C.E‚ Plato‚ an outstanding philosopher‚ conducted a Socratic dialogue named Gorgias. In this dialogue‚ Plato discusses virtue originated upon rhetoric‚ which relates closely to his theoretical scheme of defining the suitable existence of humans. Plato does an impeccable job mapping out rhetorical situations to construct this piece as a well thought out rhetorical figure. While focusing on the first sections of Gorgias‚ Gorgias himself tells Socrates that rhetoric relates “to the greatest…and
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Can virtue be taught? This is the main question discussed and argued over by Plato in the Protagoras and in the last section of the Meno. In these readings Plato gives different arguments that favor both sides positively and negatively. In the evidence I found in analyzing the Protagoras and the end of the Meno one thing was clear. The answer to this question according to the arguments seen in the readings tended to lean towards the negative. By negative I mean that Plato seems to believe that virtue
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What is academic honesty and why is it important? In my understanding academic honesty is trust in a relationship between professors‚ teachers‚ students etc. It means to be honest with your fellow classmates‚ teacher‚ and pupils in the process of education. To be academically honest means not to cheat‚ fabricate‚ or copy someone else’s thoughts and ideas as if they were your own. Today academic honesty is a very important issue as it is the base of many universities’ educational programs. As the
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