Seven virtues

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…

Aristotle once said “Each man judges well the things that he knows, and of these he is the best judge. Thus the man who had been educated in a certain area is the best judge in that area, while the man who has a general education is a good judge in general.” The quote states how an individual is able to effectively judge the things that they know the best. Someone who has been educated in a certain area is the best judge for that area. The nature of the quote is taking what you know to make a…

Human nature is an essential element that occurs in life every day and in every person. The temptations that people have as well as the thoughts that occur to people are worth studying even now today. I will be looking at how Aristotle studied human nature and his philosophies based upon it. I am going to look at how Aristotle described human nature compared to “normal” actions of humans. I will also compare the way Aristotle studied human nature in comparison and contrast with the view on…