individual and to the state. In "Nicomachean Ethics" Aristotle discusses happiness‚ virtue‚ and the good life on an individual level and lays out necessary provisions for the good life of a person. He maintains that virtue is a necessary element of happiness: a man will be happy if he has virtues of justice‚ courage‚ and temperance‚ each constituting a balance between the extremes. But this requirement of virtue for the happy life goes beyond the individual level‚ as we see it in "Politics". There
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The word Biblical commentary breaks this down into “clear-minded‚ sober in judgement‚ self-controlled.” In the same type of way‚ Paul uses this language to reference the elder men and women in his letter to Timothy [1 Tim 3:11]. The second of these virtues‚ is the need for the old men in Titus church to be sober. Which can have double meaning when looking at the context. Titus’ commission is to Crete‚ a large island in Greece. This area was known
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Franklin wrote The Way to Wealth because he was frustrated that people were evading taxes‚ especially because these taxes helped the people and the city. He explained that the real issue was not the government’s taxes. He declared that the lack of virtue taxed people much more. Throughout the rest of the book‚ he conveyed that morality and public service were most important‚ and that one can avoid poverty through hard work and frugality (which was essentially an extension of the first idea). We know
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philosopher‚ put forward the Confucianism. Confucianism especially emphasizes on the relationships. As the development of global economy‚ ethical relations will become more and more important. Humaneness or benevolence is the most important Confucian virtue. It tells us that we should treat others with love and take care of others through getting knowledge from the education and some other ways. Everyone can make mistakes in their whole lives‚ so we should have a heart of tolerating others. However‚
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Aristotle’s‚ he explains virtues and how happiness is the means by which human beings have moral virtues. The debate whether virtue or vice should determine happiness is what Aristotle simplifies for us. Happiness should be determined by the activities human beings‚ virtuous or not‚ do in order to be happy within themselves. For Aristotle‚ virtue are those characteristics that allows an individual to live well. There are two kinds of virtues‚ the moral virtues and the intellectual virtues. Aristotle clarifies
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frets his hour upon the stage‚ and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot‚ full of sound and fury‚ signifying nothing. William Shakespeare Courage is the most important of all the virtues‚ because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically‚ but nothing consistently without courage. Maya
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Aristotle’s Virtue Theory • The extent of Aristotle’s role in philosophy is outlined‚ including his concept of teleology and causation. In particular his theory of virtue is examined with examples. The lecture concludes with an overall discussion of virtue theory. Main Points Empirical Knowledge and the Realm of the Senses • • Aristotle rejects Plato’s notion that the Forms exist separately from the world; he envisions Forms existing in the world of the senses. This shift enables Aristotle to
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are human‚ making it unrealistic for them to be perfectly chivalrous in all situations. The poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight critiques this perfect ideal of chivalry where an individual upholds all virtues at all times‚ by placing Sir Gawain in situations that present conflicts with these virtues‚ prompting him to choose between them and therefore not fulfilling the ideal. By doing this‚ the poem
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dispositions that tend in different directions‚ reflecting different strengths. If we are asked to imagine exemplars of each of these virtues‚ we probably call two very different individuals to mind—the courageous person imposing‚ heroic‚ probably male‚ and the patient person quiet‚ reserved‚ quite likely female. (After all‚ Ancient Greek courage simply was the virtue of manliness (andreia)‚ and the Victorians used to name their daughters Patience.) Some of our images of courage may even positively
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Nguyen Canh Duc What are the first things that come to our mind when we talk about America? It is such a fascinating question‚ that at first glance many will think they are able to easily answer it‚ when ‚in fact‚ it is not the way the process goes. Despite the fact this question is definitely a hard question to give a brief response to‚ there are several ideas‚ which we can obviously point out. We all know that not only has the USA been considered as one of the most ideal countries
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