Aristotelian ethics

Chekhov uses Andrei Yefimych as a symbol of the actions and ideas of the majority, and the treatment of his character shows what happens when someone even seems to demur the status quo. One of Andrei’s identifying traits is his belief in Stoicism, a Greek school of philosophy that taught that virtue is based on knowledge, and that the wise ignore and remain indifferent to suffering and the vicissitudes of fortune. Chekhov deliberately crafts Andrei to partake in this belief system to weaken…

1. What are the benefits and the costs of a value-free approach to science? What are the benefits and the costs of a value-laden approach? Which approach do you endorse? Those who believe in the value-free approach follow the idea that scientists should be seeking the truth without regard to any personal interests or concerns and should also not be concerned with what their discovered knowledge will be used for. Followers of the value-laden approach believe discovery should only be used to…

Your suffering is my suffering. Your happiness is my happiness. I would always regard your emotions, your needs, and your vulnerabilities as I regard my own. I am unskillful, and I apologize If I cause you suffering. Love is devoid of suffering; our unskillfulness and egoist practices is what causes another to suffer. I would never want for you to feel abandon. I am present and mindful of you. You mean everything to me. My suffering. Unskillfulness. Shortcomings. The abusive behavior and…

Seok Hee “Christine” Hong Williamson AP Language and Composition 29 December 2016 2008 Form B FRQ Q2 What’s wrong with being intellectually curious and academically serious? Apparently everything, as far as society’s concerned, but Fridman thinks not. In the article “America Needs Its Nerds,” Leonid Fridman criticizes American society for its anti-intellectual values and emphasizes the need to stand against it through the use of rhetorical strategies such as exemplifications and comparisons. He…

to life than quantity. As each individual has different perspectives of fairness, emotion and empathy contribute to the sense of fairness. On the other hand, logic is a diverse judgement of the rights and wrongs, the do’s and don'ts established by ethics and ethos. Second chances are possible, but not entitled. Ultimately, in court, the death penalty should serve as a sentence on certain situations. Reginald Rose’s, 12 Angry Men demonstrates the importance of the well known statement, innocent…

In the article “Good and Evil, Good and Bad” Friedrich Nietzsche argues that morality emerges when ressentiment becomes creative and begins to have values. He claims that ressentiment comes from the “slaves revolt” and that the nobles are the ones that have complete power. Society is very predictable; you are free to make your own future and that is called “conscience” but Nietzsche flips that around and it become “bad conscience” along with the feeling of guilt which comes from the relationship…

The Demand Between Good and Evil As humans, we all have instinctual moments where we must protect ourselves in the face of danger or harm. This basic human principle of self-preservation is what helps us discern our actions when we are met with competing demands. This inherent tendency of fight or flight is what differentiates many human beings in the face of adversity. In the modern drama The Crucible, Arthur Miller uses the two protagonists John Proctor and Abigail Williams to showcase the…

PARENT-TEEN DRIVING AGREEMENT I _________________________________, acknowledge that I am being given permission to drive a car by my parents. I am aware of the responsibility that driving entails, and am voluntarily entering into the following agreement with my parents. _____ I understand that being given permission to drive is not a right. My parents are under no obligation to let me drive, and they may take away this privilege at any time. I understand that just because I meet the State’s…

Over the past few years, one is skeptical of what drives puerile, intrepid men to jeopardize their precious lives in the mist of nature itself. Some believe there are a multitude of reasons regarding their inability to deal with civilization. No matter the cause, Christopher Johnson McCandless and the Henry David Thoreau’s credences are quite homogeneous as to why a person would turn their back on the conventional life. Their desires were pellucid in which they decided to both lead a simple…

Do the Right Thing is a film that challenges the concept of morality. As the name suggests, many of the characters in it struggle to figure out what the right thing is. The film leaves it as ambiguous to what the right thing is. And because there were so many different people trying to figure out what it meant to do the right thing, everyone arrived at different conclusions to what it is. The answer to how Mookie knows what the right thing is is that he really does not know. Throughout the film,…