Epistemic virtue

“The common good consists of three essential elements: respect for and promotion of the fundamental rights of the person; prosperity, or the development of the spiritual and temporal goods of society; the peace and security of the group and of its members. Everyone should be concerned to create and support institutions that improve the conditions of human life.” In the corrupt world of Legend by Marie Lu, the common good is an ideology far from its government’s mind. There are people that do…

property of every good life can be largely explained by the many benefits of having friends. The first of which is as a mirror to test one’s own virtues. Aristotle throughout his book provides reasoning that the best life is one of contemplation and self-reflection, however people are prone to self-deception when attempting to evaluate their own virtues. Friendship provides an eloquent solution to this issue by providing a method to project oneself onto another. Another reason is the provision…

Plato's Socratic dialog Euthyphro through its content can be considered representative of the types of philosophical quests Socrates is highly recognized for. In many of the Socratic dialogs, Socrates seeks out those who possess knowledge only to prove that they don’t possess given knowledge. Socrates performs this task by questioning the experts and ultimately driving them to contradict themselves. In the dialog Euthyphro, Socrates receives three different definitions of Piety by Euthyphro. I…

Authorial Influence in Writing™ The author of Grendel, John Gardner, made the argument for Grendel being a hero better than the Beowulf author because he portrays discipline, honor, and improvement. Throughout the writing Grendel tries to better himself, the author makes Grendel more noble as a result. Grendel has amazing discipline. He has all the potential to be a ruthless killer, but he restrains himself. Simple proof of this is “I have never killed a deer in all my life and never will,”…

Denisse Garcia Honors 2 Dr. Jeffrey Brodd November 18, 2017 Happiness Through Virtue Aristotle asserts that an ideal life culminates in life through living virtuously. In his famous piece of literature, Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle defines happiness and how it is achieved. In a similar style Zhuangzi and Plato reveal the meaning of happiness through their works of literature and how it is achieved. All three have similar ideas of happiness and what it means, but what differs is how happiness…

In each of the major ancient philosopher had their own defining virtue and happiness. The ancient philosopher covered in this essay will include Plato, Aristotle, the Epicureans, and the Stoics. Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics hold happiness as the highest good and believe it is what we all seek in the end. The Epicureans hold a slightly different view, they find that happiness is pleasure, and pleasure is the highest good. Each of these individuals define happiness in their own way and also…

For this assignment, I chose to do Plato’s myth of the cave. When reading Plato’s myth of the cave I really didn’t understand what Plato was trying to illustrate. I never thought it would be a subliminal message to this story. When reading this story, I interpreted it a totally different way. I thought it was just a typical story about prisoners who were locked up for their entire lives and one day a guard had a change of heart for one of the prisoners so he decided to set him free. I was very…

The Western Apache and their Sense of Place The Western Apache Native culture is a very distinct way of life because of the importance they place on place-naming and landscapes. Keith Basso describes the intricate and intriguing methods the Apache employed during the course of their history as a whole to depict and understand the world around them. The idea of Wisdom Sits in Places begins with how the Western Apache sought to orchestrate their path of wisdom by wedding landscapes and places to…

Socrates acknowledges his opponent's argument, its defense, and its criticism, and is able to culminate this knowledge into devastating blows to his opponent’s argument and subsequent rebuttals. This deep understanding and tactful precision allows Socrates to orchestrate a “good” argument. His argumentative prowess is best seen through his arguments with Euthyphro and Meletus. The Argument from the God's opinion is put forth by Euthyphro and consequently challenged by Socrates. Euthyphro states…

George and Lennie display true friendship of loyalty to each other like family. According to Aristotle “Complete sort of friendship between people who are good and alike in virtue”. Easily dissolve”. “ its is clear that only the good can be friends for themselves, since the bad do not enjoy their own kind unless some benefit comes from them”. The steinbeck of George and lennie working together, describe their power of the American dream Because they made goals to be successful in life and not…