In politics, the focus, at times, moves away from the issues that are important to voters to the personalities of the people who are running for office. Instead of debating the pros and cons of the issues at hand, politicians revert to personal attacks. In doing so, the focus is often taken off of the important issues in a campaign and instead, placed on the candidates’ beliefs and ideals or events from their past. This is a very effective and often used method in politics today. Politicians use
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Socrates was put on trial for two things. One he was corrupting the mind of the youth and two he was impious. Socrates had many interesting arguments against these claims. Socrates got Meletus to say that everyone improves the youth, all the citizens of Athens. Socrates disproves this claim by saying that, it takes a particular person to improve something else. Socrates uses and example with horses, saying that horse trainers are very specialized people and have a positive influence on horse, where
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The Nicomachean Ethics is a famous book, where Aristotle follows Socrates and Plato in discussing the virtues of a central to a well-lived life. In this specific passage, Aristotle regards the ethical virtue of Friendliness to be a central part of social intercourse. Aristotle describes how different people act differently in different situations because of the social situation and kind of person they are. The passage builds the case to show how people are different, and how we should be able to
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In Plato’s Republic, Socrates is describing the ideal system under which people ought to be educated under to have balance between the three tiers of the soul, with those being the spirited, appetitive, and rational parts. He goes into detail about how some aspects of education must be censored as to not skew people’s spirits out of balance. To critique Plato’s proposals for censorship, first we must outline his plans for education and analyze his proposal for education in his emulation of the “perfect
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After reading Plato’s Apology there are many questions that filled my head. Whether it was what Socrates meant when explaining his defense, or what the Athenian court members had based their moral and ethical views from. More importantly, Socrates was a philosopher, and he strived to find answers, even when they were not easy to discover. This led me to Socrates’ idea, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” Socrates was a strong advocate of this statement and supported it in front of the Oracle
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“Terrorist.” This is the word that has vested fear and revulsion in Americans since the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2001. Recently this fear has be capitalized on by a group assuming the title of “The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria”, or better known by the acronym of “ISIS.” ISIS is a merciless schism derived from the well known terrorist group Al-Qaeda whose main goal is to tear down the current structure of middle eastern states in order construct a unified Islamic
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There are many different types of poems that I have been introduced to this year including, Haiku’s, scent memory poem, art inspiration poems. One day during class we went to the front of the school and were told to find a piece of art that we liked, there didn’t have to be a reason why we just found one and sat in front of it. We wrote down phrases, or words, to describe exactly what we saw. What was literally right in front of us and what we assumed was there. When looking at these words I realized
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While the relationship Alexander had with Calum was not always consistent due to their different childhoods, Grandfather was a constant figure in Alexander’s life. Grandfather was always trying to make the world “right” and in doing so acted as a teacher to Alexander about the history of the MacDonald family. Grandfather never stopped informing Alexander of their ancestors’ life stories and even on Alexander’s graduation had to use to library to find out the truth about “Wolfe and the Highlanders
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When I sat down to write this essay, I had no idea who to pick. My first thought was mother teresa, since she was just canonized as a saint recently, and for all her work with the poor and people who needed her help. After thinking for longer, I realized that I should pick someone that I know and who has influenced me personally. My mind went straight to Father (Fr.) George, a priest at my parish. He was my first choice because he is caring, selfless, and kind as well as courageous, brave, and determined
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Socrates and Motives: Why Choose Death? When Socrates stood trial he held that his work and questions were worth giving his life for. He wasn’t willing to give in to the accusers and say what he was doing was wrong because to him that would be a renouncement of what he believed was right. Nathanael “Nate” Saint, a pilot during WWII, served as a missionary in Ecuador during the 1950s; he and four of his friends were killed by the tribe they were attempting to reach when they refused to shoot the
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