Polis

Catholic moral reasoning does not solely rely on the sources and norms of the Catholic Church in order to obtain friendship with God. While the sources and norms serve as the primary ways to achieve and know friendship with God there are different aids that are available to help one pursue one’s proper ends. The aids are broken into external and internal. There are also obstacles that stand in the way or interrupt one’s pursuit of the good; these are called vices. With the help of the external…

As childhood obesity increases and parents continue to spend money at fast food restaurants to satisfy the needs of their large children, the fast food restaurants will grow to be enormous and take over the entire food industry. Fast food restaurants, such as McDonald’s, could and may have already become the primary choice for going out to eat over a traditional restaurant due to the quicker readiness of the meal. This both drives healthier restaurants, that take time to prepare their courses,…

Organizational Theory was introduced at a time in history when commerce was expanding and the concept greatly shaped the industrial revolution. Classical Organizational Theory was the major administrative structure for both public and private organizations well into the 1930’s and can still be found highly influential today. There were several thought leaders to contribute to the development of this theory and with Aristotle being considered one of the early founders of this thought. This…

all time, something must achieve unheralded greatness with its existence. The drama accomplishes this requirement easily through its key themes and the execution of those themes. Divinity opposing authority, the contrasting classical values of the polis and the oikos, power earned through democracy and tyranny, and even the critical context of gender are used in the script to create a meaningful message about blood and power. As with all great works, Antigone has several iterations across a…

should be a moderation of the two, adhering to what is proportional to the worker’s efforts. Justice is strongly tied to an individual’s morals, however its branches span further than that. Aristotle’s justice, akin to Plato, is strongly tied to the polis, or civilians. The good civilians just duty is to keep the partnership of community maintained. Thus the authoritative rule determines what is the justice of the civilian. Where an act may be just on moral grounds, it may not be just on social…

The Victor’s Crown was written by David Potter as a way to help his readers not fond of the Historic Sporting events timeline understand how these sports gained interest from royalty to the public sphere of the world, as well as the backstories behind the specific sports including the nature of the athletes participating. The book itself is divided up into 29 chapters all following a laxly based sequential order of events which highlights important events leading up to Roman Olympic games as…

that combined the city, its people, and religion together and insinuated itself into their everyday lives. This was through their system of polytheism, their orthopraxic rituals, democratically elected religious officials, the patron deities of their Polis, and the rites of passage that every citizen went through. Civic religion in ancient Greece was the way that the ancient people practiced religion in their everyday lives. It combined their households with their communities, and their…

The bald eagle, Nike, the structure of government buildings and libraries, what do these things have in common you ask? The answer is quite simply that they were all influenced from something in Greek Mythology. Greek mythology and Greek culture in general have had a major impact on American culture. “You can’t walk to any U.S city without seeing something that has been influenced by the Greeks,” says Chiron, a character from one of Rick Riordan’s, popular writer of the Percy Jackson books…

Virgin lady indicating to soldiers the source of water. The most accepted explanation for the word Trevi is that it derives for the Latin word Trivium that indicates a crossing of three streets. The three streets of Trevi are Via De' Crocicchi, Via Poli and Via Delle Muratte. During construction many men were injured and a few died when working with enormous stone, including a stonecutter who was crushed by a large block of travertine in 1734. The Trevi fountain project was financed by the…

Socrates was not a religious person. He did not worship or believe in the gods. Socrates was not loyal to the Polis. As one does say, “the thought of Socrates not worshipping the gods is thought-provoking” (Nardo 12) He is saying that it is a very large part of life to be close to and have a good relationship with the gods, but to not even be loyal to the polis shocks his thought on Socrates in general. The worst part about Socrates faith was that he had been dissed and not spoken…