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Morality in Aristotle, Paul, and Modern America, 2004.
The ways in which the morality of both Aristotle and Paul converge in modern America.
2,500 words (approx. 10.0 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 52.95
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The paper examines the ways in which morality of both Aristotle's and Paul's schools of thought come together in modern America. It looks at how Aristotle's idea of reason, or "logos," must be taught and then be used in the real world. It then moves on to Paul, who believes that morality must be gained by giving oneself completely to God. The paper finally looks at how modern America has brought these two schools of thought together.
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"Do to others as you would have them do to you," is something we have all heard in some form or another at some point in our lives. To put it another way would be to treat people how you would want to be treated. This simple rule can be seen as the foundation, the beginning of many people's moral code, which they will use for the rest of their lives. It will guide their decision-making processes from the simplest choices like whether or not to tell a white lie, and all the way up to life and death situations. The question is how do we come to those decisions that can have such far-reaching consequences and feel comfortable that we have made the right, or shall we say the best decision? Are moral decisions based on the rules we have been taught by our parents, the laws of society, the consequences of an action, or a more deep desire to promote goodness in the world in which we live in? There has been a countless number of people who have attempted to define the moral code. Aristotle believed that one learns morality through philosophy and then actually using it in the real world. The apostle Paul thought that one should follow God's will, or moral code, out of love and faith. Modern America can see a convergence of these two schools of thought, which form our morality. Our morality comes from learning through our parents, religion, and the society around us where by repetition of these rules we are able to base our decisions on these principles, which are ultimately used with our natural reason."
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Morality through Plato, Aristotle, and Hobbes, 2005.
A paper comparing and contrasting Plato, Aristotle, and Hobbes, particularly their views about happiness and morality.
1,642 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 0 sources, MLA, £ 36.95
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An exploration of the similarities and differences among three philosophers. One who embraced a theory of absolute truth and the belief in one clear right and wrong; one who clearly rejected it and believed in assigned right/wrong for each person; one who would say that there is no right or wrong at all, only a social contract. It explains how all three explore the idea of metaphysics.
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"Some of the greatest philosophers have sought to bring an understanding to basic metaphysics and morality. Plato is known for his great thoughts and philosophical ideas about politics and social values. He used a very effective and clever way of writing his views, a technique of exoteric and esoteric writing. Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" from The Republic, a children's story about a cave, had an esoteric meaning that was letting the intelligent know what the government was doing. The point that Plato gets across is that the government wants to keep everyone in the dark. It was important to him that people see the reality of the society they live in; to be happy, we must realize the metaphysical, beyond what appears to be real. Plato, being the first to explore these concepts, sets the ground works to compare all thinkers who follow him. Aristotle and Hobbes take these same ideas and shed a vastly different light on them."
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Marx and Aristotle: Morality, 2004.
This paper examines the moral philosophy of Marx and Aristotle.
3,375 words (approx. 13.5 pages), 7 sources, MLA, £ 82.95
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In this paper the writer compares and contrasts the moral philosophy in the works of Marx and Aristotle. The writer examines the contributions of Engels and Marx and of Aristotle to the nature of morality. The writer also discusses the differing methods of Aristotle and Marx.
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"The purpose of this research is to examine the contributions of Marx and Engels on one hand and Aristotle on the other with regard to the nature of morality. The research will set forth the discourse context for the issue and then discuss how the two approaches to analyzing morality coincide and how they differ with a view toward identifying and evaluating the significance and influence of these commentators on the discourse of morality. At first glance it seems that Aristotle and Marx can have very little in common ... "
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Aristotle and Moral Responsibility, 2008.
This paper provides an analysis of Aristotle's beliefs of moral responsibility.
705 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 3 sources, MLA, £ 17.95
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The paper discusses Aristotle's belief that human beings are morally responsible for their conception of the good life, which was based on his determination that every form of activity people engage in has an ultimate goal that they consider good. The paper explains Aristotle's argument that because there cannot be an endless regression of external motivations, an intrinsic motivation for achieving the highest good must exist. The paper further explains how moral responsibility extends across desires to the conduct those desires produce and to the ends such conduct achieves.
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"Aristotle believed that we are morally responsible for our conception of the good life, and based this belief on his determination that every form of activity people engage in has an ultimate goal which they consider good. Furthermore, Aristotle argued that because there cannot be an endless regression of external motivations, there must be an intrinsic motivation for achieving the highest good. This highest good is the goal towards which all human activity is directed."
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Aristotle and "Today's Moral Issues", 2002.
A comparason of the themes in "Today's Moral Issues: Classic and Contemporary Perspectives" by Daniel Bonevac with Aristotle's "Nichomacean Ethics".
2,150 words (approx. 8.6 pages), 6 sources, £ 55.95
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This paper will discuss the book by Daniel Bonevac called "Today's Moral Issues: Classic and Contemporary Perspectives" and make a contrast and comparison to Aristotle's "Nichomacean Ethics" and the vices and virtues of Philippa Foot. By analyzing these two perspectives we can see how they relate in the philosophies that the present and give a better understanding of how they contrast within the spheres of thought that they seem to represent. By revealing what the author of this book tells us about morality in today's society, we can see how these other thinkers think in relation to him.
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Aristotle's Moral Theory, 1996.
Analyzes qualities & actions which comprise ethical behavior, role of education & practice, pleasure & pain; applied to President Jimmy Carter.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, £ 32.95
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"In his Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle defines moral virtue as the possession of such qualities as self-control, courage, generosity, high-mindedness, gentleness, friendliness, truthfulness, etc. The possession of such qualities occurs through action---acts of self-control, courage, generosity, etc. Actions of such self-control, courage, etc., occur again and again in the life of the morally virtuous individual. Moral virtue, then, is a factor not of genetics but of action, and particularly repeated action:
Moral virtue . . . is formed by habit. . . . None of the moral virtues is implanted in us by nature, for nothing which exists by nature can be changed by habit. . . . We are by nature equipped with the ability to receive [the virtues], and habit brings this ability to..."
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Social Morality in Modern Literature, 2004.
An analysis of the concept of social morality in modern literature.
811 words (approx. 3.2 pages), 4 sources, MLA, £ 19.95
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This paper discusses four literary works in an attempt to define social morality: Chinua Achebe?s novel, "Things Fall Apart", W. B. Yeats?s "The Second Coming", "The Guest" by Albert Camus, and T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock". The paper examines how, through literature, writers are able to provide people with varying themes related to the discussion of social morality, offering people avenues wherein morality can be created and developed by society and adapted by the individual.
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"Literature, as the primary source of information of people in witnessing and experiencing realities interpreted by the author/writer, is more than a medium that extends messages of reality and experience. Literature is, first and foremost, an expression of thoughts and ideologies that may or may not be agreed upon by the author or his/her characters in the said work. The concept of social morality is such example of these ideologies extended thru literary works. Through literature, writers are able to provide people with varying themes related to the discussion of social morality, offering people avenues wherein morality can be created and developed by the society, and adapted by the individual."
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Aristotle and Modern Psychology, 2001.
Aristotle's worldview & model for human behavior; the soul. Freud's criticism of Aristotle.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 6 sources, £ 27.95
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"Introduction
Psychology, as we think of it, was not a preoccupation of most people until very recently. As Malina (1981) pointed out in his discussion of the pre-Christian worldview, personality at that time was flattened out, viewed as more dyadic than layered. It was also not separate from the body. The emphasis was external, rather than internal, with a focus on shame, honor, family, clan, and hierarchy, rather than on one's own internal functioning.
However, there was a conception of psychology, although quite different from that of modern psychology. As with so many things in the intellectual lineage of the Western world, this conception is associated with the thought of Aristotle.
Aristotle's viewpoint.."
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Modern Morality, 2004.
This paper analyzes the characters in Beckett's "Endgame," Pinter's "The Homecoming" and Mueller's "The Hamlet Machine."
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 43.95
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The paper offers an analysis of the values and morality of the characters in Beckett's "Endgame," Pinter's "The Homecoming" and Mueller's "The Hamlet Machine." The paper examines their relation to modern morality in an existential existence.
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"According to Green, the moral can be clearly distinguished from the non-moral. Morally good motivation is completely different from one's motivation to do other kinds of things. It involves respect for the law and it applies regardless of what you want. While morality may be considered in the words of Spike Lee doing the right thing, it is often the definition of what is right that complicates moral decisions both individually and collectively. Moral emotion of individuals typically involves either guilt or shame."
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Architecture: Modernism, Pre-Modernism and Post-Modernism, 2002.
A discussion of the different movements - pre-modernism, modernism and post-modernism - in architectural history and how each one differs from the other.
2,550 words (approx. 10.2 pages), 10 sources, MLA, £ 53.95
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A paper which discusses the different movements in architectural history and compares the differences between them. The paper shows how among these movements, modernism is the most popular and how it has influenced art and architecture in the United States and Europe. It shows, on the other hand, that pre-modernism is a less popular era in which architecture was influenced by the industrial age and its need for order and precision, and that Post-modernism was the movement that followed modernism and contains elements of both classicism and modernism.
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"During the modernism movement, architects started using steel and iron more in their designs and they also started focusing on functional designs. Apart from the use of steel and iron, concrete was also brought back to the architectural world. It is important to know here that concrete is one thing that sets late 19th century buildings from pre-modernism architectural designs. While concrete was first used by the Romans in 5 B.C., it was later taken over by other materials such as marble, stone, brick etc. Modernists are responsible for the revival of concrete in architecture."
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Aristotle vs. Plato on the Objectivity of Morality, 2002.
This paper discusses and compares and contrasts Aristotelian teliology and perspective on the objectivity of morality with the Platonic idea of ethical rationalism and the Forms.
1,938 words (approx. 7.8 pages), 6 sources, MLA, £ 42.95
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The paper shows how Plato essentially believes in the relativity of morality whereas as Aristotle does not, but instead believes that human beings, like nature, have an inherent purpose that we are designed to aspire to. Plato, on the other hand, believes that there are undefinable Forms, like moral goals, that can be seen, appreciated and reached for in many different ways, thus making hm an ethical relativist, rather than a believer in moral objectivity.
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"Both Plato (B.C.E. 428 ? 347/8) and Aristotle (384 - 322 B.C) are known for their ageless philosophy and revolutionary views. Some contemporary philosophers go so far as to suggest that these men are ?without equal in the history of human thought? (Cohen, Curd, and Reeve). Although neither man set out to transform the perspectives of the known world with regards to ethics and morality, both succeeded in doing so infinitely beyond what they lived to witness. To a great extent, their views actually differ; yet compliment one another in defining morality. Combined; their works identified and explained morality, shaping the understanding of much of the western world for centuries."
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"A Look at Modernity: An Introduction to Modern Societies", 2005.
An analysis of European colonialism as interpreted in the book "A Look at Modernity: An Introduction to Modern Societies."
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, £ 18.95
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The following paper looks at the impact of European colonialism upon its own self-identity and upon its place in the world by reviewing a text entitled, :Modernity: An Introduction to Modern Societies.: While the reading glosses over the impact of the Europeans upon the indigenous peoples they were displacing, it does offer some interesting insights into how overseas adventurism changed European cartography and self-identification.
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"As much as Western imperial powers may wish otherwise, there can be little doubt that colonialism inflicted great harm upon many indigenous peoples the world over. Of all the many depredations that can be laid at the feet of colonial activity, one of the most pernicious was - and remains - population displacement. Among other things, this paper will examine the extent to which population displacement is treated in Modernity: an Introduction to Modern Societies. As will soon become evident, the paper refers to the issue of population displacement only obliquely while focusing far more upon the impact of Western expansion and colonialism upon western self-identity. "
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From Modernism to Post-Modernism, 2005.
Describes the theories of four major thinkers of the modern and post-modern era, including Weber, Durkheim, Victor Turner and Clifford Geertz.
1,486 words (approx. 5.9 pages), 5 sources, APA, £ 34.95
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This paper summarizes the theories of these thinkers on the role of the individual and his/her relationship to the community. In conclusion, the author states that the thinking of Victor Turner is the most accurate and convincing.
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"Two thinkers -- Max Weber and Emile Durkheim -- were late modernist thinkers who developed theories about the relation of the individual to society. Their theories were appropriate to the industrial societies in which they lived. With the end of World War Two and the rise of the post-modern period, however, different ways of conceiving of the individual and society arose that sought to break with modernist thinking, including the thought of Clifford Geertz and Victor Turner."
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Modernism and Post-Modernism, 2002.
A discussion of the the study of film as a post-modern event.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 4 sources, £ 27.95
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Discusses the study of film as a post-modern event. Defines the aesthetic values & dynamics of modernism and post-modernism. Post-Modernism as a cultural, aesthetic & historical issue. Structuralist thinking. Development of post-modern material and fragmented surface style in film. Examples: CONTEMPT, RESEVOIR DOGS, PULP FICTION.
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"Movements in artistic expression often occur spontaneously and are then given a name to identify a perceived trend. This is clearly the case with reference to both modernism and postmodernism, and the very fact that we have seen a need to find a name for the changed environment after 1960 shows that postmodernism exists in some degree--it exists because we have named it, but that does not make it any more a coherent or "intentional" movement than was modernism. In film terms, postmodernism primarily shows a certain weariness with modernism rather than a drive to something clearly new. The elevation of film to a subject for study is itself a postmodern event, signaling as it does the end of the modernist division into High and Low culture. The increasingly self-reflexive nature of modern film along with the elevation of style over substance are..."
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