not a wealthy person and had a wife and children. He did various jobs, one of them being a city guard. He had a bad reputation as a husband. One of his powerful social connections, Plato, of the local oligarch, strongly nurtured his reputation in Athens. Socrates was a well-favored guest at the frequent parties that Plato organized, where there was a free flow in terms of philosophical discussions. However, the strong reputation of Socrates led him to chafe at the body politic of the Athenian city
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Imagine an elderly person with glasses perched on their nose, rocking in an old chair on their front porch. Generally, in stories this person helps guide the main character to make the right decision. Although this is stereotypical and conventional wisdom, does a person automatically assume that they have all the answers in life? Or do you think that the person who learns from work experience does? Or the person who has the highest degree? In Webster's Dictionary it states that wisdom is accumulated
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just wanted to share my thoughts with someone who thinks on the same spectrum as I. If you are unfamiliar with their works, I can explain briefly. Aristotle was a philosopher who studied under great philosopher Plato. He focused solely on the biological aspect of philosophy as opposed to Plato who focused on mathematics alone. He believed in what we called a geocentric universe; saying all planets and stars were perfect spheres while the earth was not. Ptolemy was also a believer of this geocentric
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Socrates begins this Book with the last of his analogies. This is the most famous of all of his analogies. Thus the Allegory of the Cave was born. It describes Socrates’s levels of belief and knowledge, as well as describing the role of the philosopher in a society. Without going in to depth about the analogy, I must answer the question if this relates to political life now. Socrates imagines a cave with a long passage leading upward in to the light. In this cave there are people who have
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Aristotle’s The Nicomachean Ethics defined a virtuous act to be an act that satisfied three conditions. He further elaborated on it using his function argument to emphasize that acting virtuously according to reason fulfilled our function and brought us pleasure. This claim seems to be in tension with Kant’s view that a dutiful action is motivated by the reason for your action, maxims, undertaken out of reverence to the moral law. Although dutiful actions conform to ‘the good will’, they may conflict
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There is no one way to have lived a good life; however, characters in texts such as The Aeneid, I Samuel, II Samuel, Consolation of Philosophy, and Hamlet all demonstrate one common theme. Each character from these works have a strong devotion to their God and that reliance on their faith have brought them opportunities for desired fame, fortune, glory, knowledge, wisdom, and power. These opportunities were directly influenced by their Gods and it was their servitude to God that presented them with
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Respect, Compassion, Courage, and Integrity. Hubris (excessive pride to gods), Philoi (friend), and Kleos (Glory). Both are traits that many people live by. The first four are the Core Values at Cardigan, the values that we uphold and demonstrate day in and day out. The other three are some of the values of the Greek Heroic Code that millions of Greek soldiers lived by thousands of years ago. The question is which values would lead to a more virtuous society and which one would lead to a more peaceful
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Virtue is a word that defines the morally excellent. Morally excellent meaning, a person who who is inwardly upright; a person who will die for one they love. A person who will put the benefit and happiness of others before their own. There are many leaders in the world and a virtuous leader sounds almost the same, but they are a thousand times more important. A regular leader can lead and can lead his men to victory, but cannot put his own life in the midst of his men, and fight with them and for
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Final Essay Both Kant and Aristotle discuss their own interpretations of what morality is and what it looks like. They have very different ways of looking at what it means to act morally and what needs to be done to achieve morality and how happiness factors in to morality however. Aristotle believes that the end goal of morality is happiness. Happiness is the “final end” to all moral actions, it is the thing all humans are striving for even subconsciously. It is the final end because all actions
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Philosophy allows people to study the nature of people’s beliefs. Throughout history people’s beliefs have differed. At one time people may believe one idea and decades later people may completely disagree with that idea. Not even the ideas of the law are exempt from this occurrence. Since the spoken word, hundreds of philosophers have defined law in different ways. Seeing law in different ways people can come to different conclusions about specific cases. The Fugitive Slave Law was a controversial
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