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Virtue Essays and Term Papers
AristotleBorn in the year of 384 B.C. was seen as conventional for his
time, for he regarded slavery as a natural course of nature and believed that
certain people were born to be slaves due to the fact that their soul lacked the
rational part that should rule in a human being; However in ...
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Themes In Hawthorne's The Minister's Black VeilLike many writers of his time, Hawthorne emphasized man's inner
reality, and those thoughts and feelings which are not immediately apparent.
As he explored this internal nature, he not only found the source of
dignity and virtue, but also certain elements of darkness and violence. In
The ...
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Karl Marx's Teachings And CapitalismKarl Marx: the political economist, revolutionary, and the philosopher, was one of the most influential thinkers of the nineteenth century. Few men have caused such heated debate, manifest through the continued arguments of pro and anticommunists, as he has done. Notwithstanding this element of ...
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Two Great Men: Franklin And JeffersonTwo men who will live on forever in our history books are Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. These two men have contributed many positive and sound ideas to our American culture. Their participation in so many different fields changed the world immensely. In their later years, they were ...
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Filial Piety In ChinaE-mail: liew_hwee_min@hotmail.com
Introduction Xiao, the Chinese word for filial piety is the defining feature in Chinese culture as filial piety was extolled as the highest virtue in China for centuries. I subscribe to the school of thought that filial piety is the root of Chinese ethics and ...
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St. John The EvangelistThroughout the human history there have been many saints who have lived among us. They followed Jesus’ principles and they did God’s will. One of the earliest saints was St. John, and he lived during the times of Jesus. His childhood and his date of birth are unknown, but it is well known that he ...
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The Great Gatsby"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and creatures and then retracted back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess that they had made . . ."
In the book, by F. Scott Fitzgerald it ...
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The Apprenticeship Of Duddy KrThe whip that a lion-tamer uses is the single most important tool that will assists him in successfully taming the lions. To demonstrate his point clearly to the beasts, he must thrash the lions with his blood-sucking whip whenever they perform an incorrect act. This is the only way that he can ...
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Paradise Lost"Movement across or through space becomes a process
of colonization of that space."
Discuss the uses of metaphors of colonization in metaphysical poetry and/or Milton.
During the period of Milton's as well as myriad of poets construction of an epoque submerged in metaphysical literature, a ...
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Benjamin FranklinIn his Autobiography tells the reader that though he never acquired the virtue of humility, he did acquire the appearance of it. Many disagree with this statement and would conclude that in reality as well as appearance Franklin was an ambitious man and intent on self-improvement. Franklin was ...
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Voltaire's Writing Techniques In CandideIn Candide, Voltaire uses many writing techniques which can also be found in the works of Cervantes, Alighieri, Rabelais and Moliere. The use of the various styles and conventions shows that, despite the passage of centuries and the language differences, certain writing techniques will always be ...
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Socrates, as known by Renault, was a beautiful creature. Not physically
beautiful, but internally and fundamentally beautiful. It was he who said:
When you assume the show of any virtue, you open a credit account, which one day
you will have to meet or go broke (pp. 398). According to Renault,
taught ...
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Philosophy - PlatoPlato was born to an aristocratic family in Athens, Greece. When he was a child his
father, Ariston, who was believed to be descended from the early kings of Athens died, and his
mother, Perictione married Pyrilampes. As a young man Plato was always interested in political
leadership and ...
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Julius Caesar: BrutusBrutus was a very important character in the play Julius Caesar
written by William Shakespeare. He helped plan a plot against one of the
most powerful people in Rome and killed the king to be. Brutus was well
renowned for his deep thinking, his honor, and most importantly, his
belief in ...
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Marcus Aurelius Even today, Meditations by is read by every class from kings to common people. The book is a universal classic, meaning it can be related to at any time, by anyone. The philosophies included in his book have spanned the centuries, and Meditations remains to be one of the most influential ...
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Why Steven Landsburg Is Delusional, On Drugs, Or Should Be Taking ThemI never thought it to be possible for someone to be so caught up in an emotional ideology of economics and money until I read an excerpt from “The Armchair Economist: Economics in Everyday Life” called “Why I Am Not An Environmentalist” by Steven E. Landsburg, because as much “honest scrutiny and ...
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The FountainheadPhilosophy demands literature that can abet the understanding of
social views. Without reflective literature, man cannot begin to comprehend
the essential messages behind philosophy. One such philosophy, objectivism,
is represented exceptionally by the timeless novel, .
Through the use of ...
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The Merchant Of Venice-portiaWhen William Shakespeare wrote, The Merchant of Venice, he included a female character that influences the play dramatically. In most of Shakespeare's plays, the women have little power and intelligence. In The Merchant of Venice, however, Portia is a woman that saves the life of a man with her ...
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Martin Luther King JrA Discussion and Analysis Of some of his Contributions As Well as their Social, Political and Economic Impacts Since the Thirteen Colonies first united, the United States has had one of the strongest economies in the world. Over the years, many theorists have had varying opinions concerning the ...
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