On Thursday, March 25, historian Caroline Walker Bynum spoke about Medieval Christianity, specifically focusing on holy beds and holy families. In highlighting the Beguine Cradle and Burgundian crèche, she discussed the roles of baby Jesus dolls being dressed and placed into such cribs during the medieval era. It is through the analysis of those cribs that Bynum reflected on gender roles, form and function, and sensuality in medieval art, all of which are imbued with a sense of religion. During
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This essay will examine Plato’s Meno. In particular, I will examine the passage from 77c to 78b, in which Socrates persuades Meno that no one desires bad things. Ultimately, this essay concerns the construction of virtue under the Socratic Method. The structure of this essay is as follows: First, I will briefly provide an outline of Socrates’ argument against Meno’s idea of virtue. After which, I will provide a counter to Socrates’ argument, in short being – virtue (again, good) does not exist as
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Virtue ethics is defined as “an action is right if and only if (and because) it is what a virtuous agent (acting in character) might choose to do in the circumstances under consideration.” According to Peter Singer, there is no question, a person would save a child’s life from drowning if that person is able to, despite if it will cause clothes to be wet and ruined and the possibility of being late for work. Beneficence fits the virtue ethics theory because it is a commonly recognized virtue; and
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According to Chapter 51 from Aquinas’s On Eternal Life, one can conclude that the intellectual substance is not a material form. The chapter goes on to describe a short number of valid arguments which can be supported using the hylomorphic view on human existence. In section 4 of the text, the point is made that intellect is not a material substance but a self-subsistent one. 1. If intellect were a form in matter, then whatever is received into the intellect would be received into matter. 2. It is
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have been known AGEs for dual purpose use. The kidnapping of the 23 South Korean evangelists in Ghazni province last year rumored to have scored the Taliban a significant amount of ransom, but at the same time the value of the press they received as a result of this event is incalculable. Many of the definitions of terrorism include the use of intimidation to force the government or the public. What does that bullying though? Bullying can vary from kidnappings, assassinations of public figures, with
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Louise Cowan, in her introduction to The Terrain of Comedy, speaks about the four parts of the poetic universe as defined by Aristotle: lyric, tragedy, comedy and epic. Louise argues that the whole of redemption fits into these fours elements of poetry. Lyric is the realm of love, the “place of origins and sources…symbolized by the garden.” Lyric represents both the pre-Fall condition of man and the redemptive state. Tragedy is the loss of the garden; comedy is man enduring in the fallen world. Epic
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According to Aristotle, humans are intrinsically political and that those who do not abide by a political system are either bad or transcend humanity. Personally, I think that humans are political creatures to an extent, yet I do not completely agree with Aristotle’s notion of a hierarchy that privileges some humans over others, as well as humans over other species in nature. Humans, in my opinion, are political because we are social and form communities that try to achieve a common goal or fulfill
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Plato’s Laches describes different ways to approach courage through his characters Laches, Nicias, and Socrates. Plato uses a dialog between characters to define courage in regard to teaching children the art of swards fighting. In dialog Socrates, as the teacher, questions two generals Laches and Nicias in their belief in courage. Both Laches and Nicias have different views on what it means to have courage, however Socrates is able to question both definitions in order for each argument to be better
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The definition that I would use for the word ethical is “the right thing to do”. It might not sound as fancy as the definition that a dictionary might use but it is the explanation that my brain will understand it the most. When I read the word ethical the first thing that usually comes into my mind is “what is the author trying to say? Should I go back and read the clues that the author provided before?”. Ethical is a word that would fit in with ethos because it is a behavior of moral sense. By
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The death of Socrates has been a controversial topic throughout the centuries. Socrates, one of the most influential philosophers in history, shared and taught his political and philosophical beliefs on the street among young Athenians in a language that captivated them. Socrates was an old man who strongly disagreed with the ideas of democracy held by the Athenian government at the time; therefore he was accused and trial of corrupting the youth and not respecting the gods of Athens. Socrates’
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