beautiful and what is good. They also cover whether or not people actually do desire bad things or if all people desire good things. At the end they concur that people do not desire bad things and virtue is not "finding joy in beautiful things." Whether or not the definition of virtue is "find joy in beautiful things" is up for someone else to debate but people do desire bad things. In the end‚ Socrates was wrong in being that people do desire things that they know are bad. Meno starts out
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the world around them. Such as‚ why was the universe created or why are they here. To find answers to these questions‚ people have to look at some things from far away and others close up using scales. The way someone interprets these scales‚ is the way that person will view the world‚ and how they will develop their own opinion. When looking at things from afar or up close‚ using the appropriate scale is key. There are many different kinds of scales that allow people to do just that. Knowing what
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WHY DO PEOPLE ENGAGE IN VIOLENCE? There is too much anger in this world. Many people pray but they don’t seem to pray hard enough to internalize peace in their minds and spirits. How can one continue to pray and kneel in penance for their sins‚ go to church and pray the rosary every day and then after a while‚ shout in rage or even kill the innocent? This is a Jekyll and Hyde syndrome our nation‚ or even the entire world‚ has developed. Violence in our culture is fed by multiple forces; the
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Why Do People Fall In Love Many researchers actually consider falling in love to be a biologic event. And there are some researchers that can show brain changes using MRI tests to show that there are actual changes in our brain that we think of psychologically but biologically it really is a physiologic change. But when we want to understand what falling in love is -- the best concept to understand is the concept called limerance. Limerance is that period in a relationship of great passion
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How Pompeii’s People Lived “I can’t breath! The volcano erupted on the poisonous gas was released and got into my lungs.” When Diomedes was a few feet from the door‚ he collapsed to the ground along with 14 servants‚ and they had died.”(“The Buried City” pg.38). Daily life in Pompeii is similar to us because‚ of how they lived‚ archeologist findings‚ and how Rome was an advanced society. To begin‚ Pompeii was once really similar to us with how they lived. Most families were always on the run
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Music has been around for thousands and thousands of years. The caveman had originally started some type of sounds in which branched off into the music that we listen to today. This prehistoric music was started by the cavemen in order for them to express themselves‚ and the others who listened were affected in the same way that people are affected by music today. For example‚ if someone is upset they will listen to something that will get them into a better mood‚ perhaps something mellow or soft
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education‚ etc. in the three English settlements: New England‚ Mid-Atlantic‚ and the South that really influence their lives. The different kind of races of people that came from the Old World‚ and the way they influenced the development of the colonies had a heavy impact in their colonial way of life. There were many reasons why people from the Old World came to the New World‚ especially because of religion freedom‚ the Puritans for example‚ they came to the region of New England‚ or to be more
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Why Discriminate Against People with AIDS? AIDS is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States. In the early 1980’s people began to think that only gay males could carried the deadly virus. The New York City Health and Mental Hygiene Department released a controversial HIV/AIDS public service announcement ad targeting gay men about having HIV/AIDS. Why just target gay men‚ they are not the only people that can catch the disease. Studies show that many people around the world including
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To most people the Holocaust is one of the darkest periods of time in history. The Holocaust began in 1933 when Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany. It ended in 1945 when Allied forces defeated the Nazis. During this time a genocide occurred that slaughtered 6 million people of the Jewish faith. Throughout this era of darkness many people risked their lives to do what is best. Although‚ with all of the bad things people do‚ it may be easier to think that there is evil in everyone’s heart. I strongly
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diverse groups of black Americans. "Why I like Country Music" portrays a loving married couple sparring about the legitimacy of square dancing as a valid art form‚ using it as a symbol for radically differing worldviews coming from upbringings in the North and South. The husband tells about a fourth grade crush that results in him besting the class know-it-all to square-dance with the girl on May Day‚ and to this day‚ the scent of lemon and the sound of country music remind him of those heady days. But
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