Prudence

Before attending the lecture The Other Publius: John Jay’s Constitutional Movement, presented by Jonathan Den Hartog, I had never heard of John Jay. In my high school AP American Government and Politics class, I had read and analyzed a number of James Madison’s Federalist Papers including his most important (#10, #39, #51); however, I never read John’s Jay’s contributions to the Federalist Papers. The lecturer spoke about topics surrounding the farming and ratification of the Constitution and…

When a government fails to heed the wants and desires of the people it claims to represent, it loses it's ability to act surprised in the face of public backlash. The US Government, a government that claims to get it's power from the people, has failed to heed the desires of the American people and they now face the backlash that comes with it. For some twenty-odd years now, the US Government has saw fit to ignore the will of it's people and needlessly involve them in a conflict that the people…

A journey to Virginia began on December 6, 1606, on three ships, the Godspeed, the Susan Constant, and the Discovery. Approximately 104 boys and men arrived in North America looking forward to starting a new settlement in 1607. Eventually, they chose Jamestown, Virginia, named it after the King James I. Jamestown was the first permanent settlement in North America. They chose it because of multiple reasons, one of them was because it met the criteria for a settlement. Jamestown had three of its…

his father’s deeds throughout his life, which inspires him to be a brave warrior and carry out his duties towards his mother and estate. Telemachus is influenced by his father’s virtues of prudence and humility. When Odysseus lays out his plan to first test his servants for loyalty, Telemachus uses his prudence, to propose to kill the suitors first. This shows Odysseus’ constructive influence on wisdom of Telemachus. One can wrongly argue that the Odysseus’ plan to murder the suitors would have…

Goodness: Virtue thus came to mean, not moral goodness in itself considered, but goodness militant and triumphant. Virtue then, in its more usual sense at the present time, denotes conduct in accordance with the right, or with the fitness of things, on the part of one who has the power to do otherwise. But in this sense there are few, if any, perfectly virtuous men. There are criterions to recognize cardinal virtues: there are fitnesses and duties appertaining, first, to one's own being, nature,…

bianuju Nwaigbo Instructor: Nathan Poage Class: Phil 1301 Date: 09/15/2016 Discuss the role of wisdom in true virtue according to Meno and the Phaedo Meno and Phaedo are two important works by Plato (429–347 BC). Plato was greatly influenced by Socrates and included Socrates as basis of many of his literary works. Meno deals specifically with virtue and whether it can be taught. Phaedo is significant as it reveals the conviction of a truth-seeker just before dying for a cause. Phaedo narrates…

Kant and Aristotle are both philosophers who have different views about the highest human good and morality. Kant believes the only thing perfectly good is the good will (Haber 1993, 61). It is independent of other influences and acts in accordance with duty. The good will is intrinsically good, good without qualification. However, that is not to say everything a human does is done with good will, hence why it is based off duty. One such duty of humans is to secure their own happiness (Haber…

Many writers have written on the subject but the RAE defines effective as "the ability to achieve the desired effect or expected." An effective leader is one who gets what he wants from his employees. Characteristics of a leader Effective 1. He is a positive person To be effective you have to stay positive and think that everything will go well. The leader must be able to spread this positivism to all his employees and colleagues in such a way that everyone faces work with energy and…

Dominican Republic and Haiti. (The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica) The rumba is a dance that rivets its image on the mind. With so much history, rumba has been and is a dance of conflicts: love versus hate, aggression and harmony, sexuality and prudence. Musically, it taps into the realms of technicality and improvisation. As rumba means “party” this is clearly displayed in the dance. The upbeat music and dance form emerged in the mid-19th century, when the drumming of enslaved Africans…

It was prudence in supporting the reason for freedom worldwide. Considering America's dynamic business engagement and interconnections to market sectors abroad, its initial strategic communication with foreign powers, and its long-standing cultural affinity with…