...configuration, understanding, and deduction of human virtues. It’s practically blatant with the continuous rise of philosophers. I chose the concepts; Arete, Sophia, Eros, Eudaimonia, and Eunomia. I chose these concepts because they are all concepts that show that people were not only trying to be good people, but the best people they could be. They put these concepts into the form of gods and gate keepers of heaven so people would strive to do right. The continuous literature and artwork put into these concepts is something you no longer see, and that is something I see wrong in the world today. The world today seems to be a very selfish and arrogant place. And I believe the return of these concepts would make life better for all. My first concept arête is seen in many different areas, such as; Achilles in the Illiad because he is the best warrior that man could be. Or, Penelope in the odyssey because she is the best wife that woman could be. The Parthenon is a prime example that Arete isn’t just held to people but also well strongly constructed building, a strong animal, or beautiful pottery. Arete means virtue or excellence of any kind. It meant living up to ones full potential. In Plato’s “Allegory Of The Cave”, the perfect form of something was its arête, what everything, and everyone is trying to get to. As Plato says,” arête is something you are always trying to achieve, but unattainable, it’s a goal.” The fact that this concept is seen as unattainable seems to be meant...
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...throughout the play. The three that the king exhibits rather well are Kalokagathia, Sophrysne, and Arete. Balance can be a difficult thing to not only achieve but more often is even harder to sustain. Kalokagathia is the Greek character virtue of balance. It is however, important in keeping the universe in order. There are plenty of opposing topics that have been an issue for thousands of years. Balancing is finding the happy medium for two opposing topics. For example: church and state, law and justice, man and the gods, one’s self and other people, and a job and family. As ruler of a kingdom, King Creon certainly had to deal with balancing many different facets of life. As the highest ruler in the land he has much more to balance than the average man and there are many people who are affected by the way he tries to maintain this balance. He takes his role as king quite seriously, he strives for excellence. He makes this clear when addressing the elders, “A man who rules the entire state and does not take the best advice there is, but through fear keeps his mouth forever shut, such a man is the very worst of men”. [178-182] He shows the importance of maintaining the desired midpoint of wise counsel and his own ideas. King Creon shows that his scales tend to lean in favor his country over anything else. “A man who thinks more highly of a friend than of his country, well, he means nothing to me.” [182-184] He will never accept anyone who has tried to bring harm to his beloved Thebes....
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...Odysseus from “The Odyssey” is referred to as a true Greek Hero by many and is studied by English Classes around the world. What The Odyssey is about is the hero, Odysseus, who is trying to get home to Ithaca after winning the Trojan War. The war took him ten years and the voyage home is taking him ten meaning Odysseus has been gone for a total of twenty years. Odysseus is in fact a true hero, yet he does have flaws through either fulfilling, or failing to fulfill the following, arête, eudaimonia, and hubris. A perfect example of Odysseus not fulfilling arête is when they see Elpenor in The Kingdom of the Dead and he says the following: “Don’t sail off / and desert me, left behind unwept, unburied, don’t, / or my curse may draw god’s fury on your head” (Book XI 79-81). Elpenor was part of Odysseus’s crew and he died when he fell off of a building and broke his neck. Odysseus and his men did not have time to bury Elpenor because they had to leave to visit Hades. This is a perfect example of Odysseus violating arête. Even though they had a place to be they could’ve easily buried Elpenor, it is in a way hospitality. Zeus, who is the god of hospitality, would not be pleased with Odysseus, especially since he always shows hospitality with whom he encounters. Elpenor even said that the gods will draw...
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...Quiz 2/13/2014 Instructions: Print out a hard copy of this quiz. Correctly respond to the questions based upon your reading. Place Quiz on front desk of classroom before class start time. Attach graded quiz (grade out) at rear of journal. Make sure your answers demonstrate familiarity with the readings. 1. Explain the concept of arête. Use specific examples from your own life to illustrate your definition. Arete to be defined is a Greek term which in general terms translates to the word virtue. Arete when relating to people means that one should be the best they can be or to reach your highest human potential for example like working as hard as you can in college and being as studious as you can be to ultimately be as successful as you can be in the real world. The term is not gender specific and implies a human centered universe in which human actions are of paramount importance, the world is a place of conflict and difficulty. Human value and meaning is measured against individual effectiveness in the world. Arte in ancient greek culture was courage and strength in the face of adversity and it was to what all people aspired. Arete in my life could be when I found someone’s wallet laying in McDonalds parking lot. I was a good citizen and took the wallet to the police station without taking anything out of it. 2. Explain the concept of phronesis. Use specific examples from your own life to illustrate your definition. Phronesis is characterized as the “wisdom to...
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...Louis Markos in his article “Homer’s Illiad: Civilization versus Barbarism” explores how faith of Christians can be strengthened by reading the Pagan classics like Homer’s Illiad. Markos starts by comparing Homer’s world to a pre-Mosaic world of Genesis. He states that they live in a world that is pre-moral and pre-legal, but are still without a sense of what is moral and lawful. Markos then begins to explain what happens in the first five books in The Illiad. He discusses that every single one of Homer’s warriors get to display their arete, which means excellence. They all strive to achieve arete, but every time they get their moment to shine, Achilles comes in and puts them to shame. Markos says, “The godlike Achilles will achieve that which the rest of us lesser morals merely strive for.” This clarifies that all of the soldiers look up to Achilles and strive to be like him. Markos then focuses on book six where Homer carries the reader from war to peace and barbarism to civilization. He talks about Homer’s moral compass throughout The Illiad and states the laws of xenia, known as the guest-host relationship. This means that both guests and the host have to treat each other the same. The host must provide hospitality and the guest is not suppose to take advantage of the host. He relates this concept to the Old and New Testament. One example is in Genesis 18 where Abraham is rewarded for the hospitality he shows the three angels. In The Illiad, the guest-host relationship...
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...Software that seems to be performing as expected may exhibit strange behavior in edge cases that may not be detected without rigorous and exhaustive testing. Software that relies on connectivity to the internet carry a risk of potential hacking, and determining whether the transmitted data is vulnerable requires additional tests. This practice of safe software requires diligence and patience. As a virtue diligence can be defined as the commitment to perform whatever one does to the limit of one’s ability. In the context of safe software, coding with diligence means that the final result cannot be improved upon by the author, all the tests that can be performed within reason were executed and all discovered errors were fixed. Failure to use safe software and not coding with diligence can have unknown and potentially catastrophic results. A famous example where programmers as a whole ignored this is the Y2K bug, or the millennium bug. Before the year 2000 programmers represented the year as a two-digit decimal value. On New Year’s Day of 2000, several systems’ year counter overflowed and rolled back to “00”, representing the year 1900. This bug resulted in several inconveniences that mostly involved certain functions or devices being inaccessibility or inoperable, but there were reported cases of problems...
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...THOMSON REUTERS STREETEVENTS EDITED TRANSCRIPT 2498.TW - Q1 2012 HTC Corp Earnings Conference Call EVENT DATE/TIME: APRIL 24, 2012 / 12:00PM GMT THOMSON REUTERS STREETEVENTS | www.streetevents.com | Contact Us ©2012 Thomson Reuters. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Thomson Reuters content, including by framing or similar means, is prohibited without the prior written consent of Thomson Reuters. 'Thomson Reuters' and the Thomson Reuters logo are registered trademarks of Thomson Reuters and its affiliated companies. APRIL 24, 2012 / 12:00PM, 2498.TW - Q1 2012 HTC Corp Earnings Conference Call CORPORATE PARTICIPANTS Peter Chou HTC Corp - CEO Chialin Chang HTC Corp - CFO Joey Cheng HTC Corp - Director, IR CONFERENCE CALL PARTICIPANTS Ben Lu Seligman - Analyst Will Power Robert Baird & Co - Analyst Richard Ko - Analyst Alban Cousin Arete Research - Analyst James Faucette Pacific Crest Securities - Analyst Dan McComb Viking Global Partners - Analyst PRESENTATION Operator Welcome, everyone, to HTC's 2012 Q1 results conference call and webcast in English. Today with us we have CEO, Mr. Peter Chou; CFO, Mr. Chialin Chang and IR Director, Mr. Joey Cheng. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent the background noise and after the presentation there will be a question and answer session. (Operator Instructions). For your information, this conference call is now being broadcasted live on the Internet. Webcast replay will be available within...
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...is to engage and convince high school students to stop smoking. A change in the young peoples attitude and action could help them minimize their chance of getting cancer. Audience: The audience is a group of young people, 17-18 years old, from an American high school class. The speaker: I am a young representative of “American Cancer Society”. Recently done a “stop smoking” campaign. They know who I am because they asked me to come so they must acknowledge my competences. Circumstances: The setting is in a classroom in an American high school – around 35 people present. There will be used a PowerPoint show to visualize the main points and capture the young audience’s attention. Language: The speech is in an informative tone (direct) because of the young audience. The main speech act is the expressive speech act and the main appeal form is pathos because of the purpose to engage them. Structure Introduction: I am an expressive speaker and I will introduce my education, campaign and experience (ethos). Acknowledge the fact that they asked me to come (expressives), thank them and underline the importance of them focusing on this topic for their own future health (pathos.) Introduction to subject: I will use logos and informative speech act to back up my purpose of stop smoking and to possible consequences of not stopping (directive speech act.) Head speech: Tell about my own experiences in the purpose and create relation with the audience (pathos/expressive.)...
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...Our idea of a “hero” today is very different from the ancient Greeks’ concept of what a “hero” is. The Greeks believed that a hero was a human, who had superhuman abilities by virtue. Many of the heroes resulted from an illicit relationship between a human and a deity. While a human and deity creating a child would be considered fictional today, the ancient Greeks believed that these heroes were mortals, but were worthy of worship despite their mortality. They were subjects of local religious worship and served as models for the ancient citizens. The heroic myths functioned as a method for recording history and providing precedent for political programs. The ancient Greeks valued loyalty, intelligence, family, and glory amongst many other...
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...and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.’” (Genesis 8:21 – 22) Answer: In chapter 8 of Genesis, it describes what happened after 40 days and nights of rain. God allowed Noah to save himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain. God remembered Noah and what he have done to save all kinds of creatures on earth. Then god decided not to punish earth because of humankind any more and the day and nights and everything else will never be punished again even if the human beings are born with evils in their heart. The reason...
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...Develop your own workplace example that fits with each system. Present each workplace scenario in a substantial paragraph of approximately 40 words. Although the table field will expand to accommodate your workplace examples, you may list them at the end of the table; make a note in the table to see the attached examples, however, so your facilitator knows to look for scenarios below the table. 4. Format references according to APA standards and include them after the table. Ethical Theory or System | Brief Definition | Other Names for Theory | Real-world Example | Workplace Example | Duty-based Ethics | Regardless of consequences, certain moral principles are binding, focusing on duty rather than results or moral obligation over what the...
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...question; it just masquerades as one.) But a question is philosophical for a particular culture at a particular time when no means of answering it are available – or, none of the prevailing methods have any authority. A problem is a philosophical problem when the way to go about answering the question is in question. An issue is a philosophical issue when the right way to settle the issue is at issue. A Philosophical Crisis If the claims in the previous paragraph are true, then 5th century Greece was in a philosophical crisis. It was a crisis in morality. In our culture we think of morality as being concerned with rules. Here are some rules – You should not kill. – You should not steal. – Don’t hit people. – Lying is wrong. – It’s wrong to promise to do something and then not do it. – You should not covet your neighbors wife, or his ox or his ass or his male or female slave, or anything that is your neighbor’s. – You should not lie with a man as with a woman. – Thou should not wear fabric woven of wool one way and linen the other. – Do (imperative) unto others as you would have them do unto you. – Help (imperative) other people who are in need when you can do so at no great risk or cost to yourself. Why do we think of morality as consisting of rules? This question is important because rule-morality has one bad consequence. (This does not mean that rule-based morality is false or misguided.) The bad effect is that people who break rules sometimes advantage themselves...
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...Individualism is usually discussed against some other term like communitarianism or collectivism. The extreme version of collectivism is "mass mind" or some other expression like that. The extreme of individualism is "sociopathy". Clearly, one wouldn't want to be the extreme of either of these things. Moral individualism is not absolutely good or bad. The moral individualist can stand up against a community's horrible moral standards for example. The sub-categories of utilitarian individualism and expressive individualism are also not necessarily good or bad. A utilitarian individualist may invent a cure for a disease to make a profit or to save a loved one -- good still comes from it. An expressive individualist may give to charity in order to gain a public reputation as a philanthropist. In the context of our own society, a lot of people are concerned with the effects of moral individualism, utilitarian individualism, and expressive individualism -- concerned that these orientations are being lived at the expense of community interests to a point at which they are harmful to collective life. Your task is to be familiar with these terms and have some sense of where you stand with respect to them. Your advocacy in one direction or other is not my primary concern -- I want you to know the terms and have an attitude with respect to them. Foundation of Ethical Conduct Order – patterned trajectories and relationships that have continuity in time. The importance...
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... Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actios, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character. Watch your character, they beconme your destiny.” ANONYMOUS Preliminary Notions: A. Etymological: The word ethics comes from the Greek word “ethos” ,meaning : custom, a habitual way of acting character, a meaning that the Latin terms “mos” , “moris” also connote. Among the Greeks , “ethics” meant what concerns human conduct/human action. B. Descriptive: Largely a concern of cultural anthropologists and sociologists. Its task is to describe how some person, members of a culture or society address all sorts of moral issues, what customs they have, and so, how they are accustomed to behave. C. Met-ethics: Concerns itself with the meanings of moral terms: like good and bad, right and wrong, duties and rights, etc. Hence the concern is with the understanding of the use of these terms, their logical forms and the objects to which they refer. Sometimes the concern of meta-ethicist is even more fundamental: What is the possibility of moral philosophy. D. Normative: Ethics is normative, not in the way that logic is, namely. With regard to the correctness of our thinking, but with regard to the goodness of our living, the right orientation of our existence. It is a practical science, not simply because it treats human action, but also because it aims at guiding this. Moralists are not content to describe human conduct: they intend to judge...
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...Two Views of Soul: Aristotle and Descartes* THEODORE TRACY, SJ. What first attracted my interest to a possible comparison was the realization that, unlike Plato, both Aristotle and Descartes shared the view that, first, there is but a single soul and, second, that this soul operates principally through a single specific bodily organ. Given his own understanding, I believe Descartes could agree totally with Aristotle's statement that the soul's "essential nature cannot be * This paper was originally presented at the University of South Carolina in April 1981' as a contribution to a symposium on "Soul and Mind in Ancient Philosophy," organized by Professor Rosamond Kent Sprague. 248 Illinois Classical Studies, XI corporeal; yet it is also clear that soul is present in a particular bodily part, and this one of the parts having control over the rest":' dfiXou 6ri ovx oihv r' tivai adua rffv ovtriau ocvrfiq, aW 5fi(t)c, Sri 7' iv tlvl tov (TUifiaToq inrapxii^ nopiw (t>avtpbv, kcu iv tovtw tivi twv ixovruiv bvvafiiv eV roJq nopioic,. {Parva Naturalia 467b 13- 16) For Aristotle, as we know, that particular controlling organ is the heart. In his treatise On Memory, for example, Aristotle declares that in animals, including man, "the source and control center {otpxvY of both the sensitive and nutritive soul must be in the heart": apayKT) Koi rrfc, ataQr]TiKr\c, kou rriq dpeirTLKfic, ^vxri<i ^v ry Kapb'ux rffv otpxw etW. {PN 469a5-7) Again, in the De Partibus...
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