if Aristotle had never been born, the world would be different because since logic is the fundamental to arguing and since good arguments are fundamental to philosophy and life it then creates an entire basis on communication, my second argument is dipping into the turbulent but astounding knowledge through metaphysics as we go we start to explore and uncover the free will and truths behind the ultimate nature of reality, my last argument will be on what Aristotle accomplished during the time when
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Moral Evolution The original theorist of morality, Greek philosopher Aristotle, postulated that the attainment of life’s ultimate happiness was contingent upon the implementation of virtuous deeds (Boss, 2017). To elucidate further, the concept of virtue embodies an ethical theory which inserts value upon one’s character, rather than their adherence to societal rules (Parry, 2014). To this effect, Aristotle promoted the idea that focusing on being a good person would eventually reap good deeds
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Maybe the saying is correct: more money, more problems. This is indeed the case with Strepsiades and his son, Pheidippides. Pheidippides became too greedy with his passion for racehorses, leading to the incurrence of a vast amount of debt for his father. Interestingly, Strepsiades does not want to have to pay back this enormous sum of money, so he seeks an alternative solution--rhetoric. Strepsiades is yearning for “The Thinkery” to be his savior, equipping him or his son with the necessary verbal
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1. While Socrates and Euthyphro talk outside the king’s porch, Euthyphro tells Socrates that he is there to accuse his old father for killing one of his employees. Socrates surprised, answers that it should not be an easy task to accuse his own family that perhaps if it were a stranger would otherwise. An indignant Euthyphro replies that it is ridiculous to think if it is family or not, the only thing should be consider is whether the murderer did fairly or not. To this fact, Socrates suspected
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In the Phaedo Socrates is waiting in jail for the poison that will fulfil his death sentence. On the day of his execution he has been talking with his friends about his expectations and their fears about his death. Socrates tries to prove that the soul is immortal to his friends in order for them to see that he is content and not unhappy about his death. Nevertheless, the Phaedo fails at proving the immortality of the soul because Socrates assumes that the soul exist and doesn’t clearly define what
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Allegory is a bit like symbolism, except instead of an object having a hidden meaning it is instead a character, event, or figure. For example, say there was a dark dragon that appears in a story as a tragedy occurs such as an illness taking over the world. In this case, the dragon can represent the illness. Allusion on the other hand can be described as indirectly referencing somebody or something of significance. This time, say in the story the main character found an object of unknown origins
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Sophocles was the son of Sophilus, who was a rich member of the rural deme he sophocles was born in 498 BC The charm and the refinement of his character seem to have won him many friends. Among them was the historian Herodotus. He was also deemed by antiquity as a man especially beloved by the gods, particularly by Asclepius, god of medicine, whose priest he probably was, and who was said to have granted him health and vigor of mind to extreme old age. By the Athenian Nicostrato he had a son, Iophon
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1 According to Aristotle, for whom is rhetoric useful? Rhetoric is useful to all men and as Aristotle explains all men make use, more or less, of it, for to a certain extent all men attempt to discuss statements and to maintain, them, to defend themselves and to attack others. Ordinary people do this either at random or through practice and from acquired habit. 2 What is one way in which rhetoric is useful? Rhetoric is useful because things that are true and things that are just have a natural
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Virtue: the good result that comes from something Can the definition of virtue, given above, imply that a virtuous act can simply be a person avoiding evil? Is that enough for a person to be considered virtuous? Virtue is not avoiding conflict, nor fleeing from the enemy. However, virtue is accomplished with action; with completing something holding an affirmative result; in keeping ground when fought. One cannot be deemed virtuous without action proving it, and avoiding evil is not an action proving
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Plato discussed the soul in detail in his book Phaedrus. General ideas of the soul were discussed along with a metaphor to fully describe what the soul is, tying in his concept of the realm of the forms. Plato believed that the self was just the soul. He saw the soul as a separate entity from the body and even thought that the human body was bad. Since souls are separate from the body, they are eternal, never can be created nor destroyed. “Every soul is immortal. That’s because whatever is always
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