Essays Tagged: "Virtue"
Socrates
ul, 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). Accord ... overnment whenever possible. Socrates believed his role in life was to teach a new understanding of virtues, it was these virtues that revolved around much of the controversies. The citizens thought t ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies
Socrates' Moral Decision
was a wise man. He believed in absolutes, and pursued theknowledge of man's source of goodness and virtue. He believed that therepayment of evil with evil was wrong. In short, Socrates was a very mor ... ame saw to it that he was educated.Now the state says 'Is it alright for you, who thinks so much of virtue, to destroy us?'Socrates is wise to see that he would be contradicting not only himself, but ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies
Antigone by Sophocles
y good essay Very good - on task essay - could be stronger on supportEnglishStubbornness could be a virtue, but many times it could be a fatal flaw. In the play Antigone by Sophocles, the heroine disp ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies
Romeo and Juliet
s. On the other hand, Plato's pupil Aristotle believed that man is initially born with goodness and virtue. The issue of man's two sides can be thoroughly discussed over the gothic novel of Frankenste ... nded metaphor, Shakespeare compares man to plants and portrays the central theme that there is both virtue and vice in man, but if the vice is of a greater caliber, it can be the fatal flaw leading to ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Romeo & Juliet
Hamlet. 'To Be Insane or Not To Be Insane That Tis The Question'
tify his actions. For example in act III,Hamlet said to Ophelia:You should not have believed me;for virtue cannot so inoculate ourold stock but we shall relish of it.I loved you not. ... Get theeto a ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Hamlet
Laertes' Role in Hamlet
to his extensive inner conflict. He is good, loyal, and honourable, seeming to possess the greatest virtue of all the characters, yet he still is doomed to die along with the other characters, precise ... ters, yet he still is doomed to die along with the other characters, precisely because of his great virtue.As Scene Two begins, in the first lines which Laertes speaks in the play, he requests that Ki ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Hamlet
Reclaiming the lost virtues in America
e essay contest, got to meet Margrat Thatcher ..RespectMany people have ideas on how to reclaim the virtue and morality that made America a great nation. However, the only sure way that everyone can a ... t is received. For these reasons respect is the chief ingredient in reestablishing the morality and virtue that made America a great nation.
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community
Basquiat - my views on the film and other things on art
An artist, 'One, such as a painter, sculptor, or writer, who is able by virtue of imagination and talent or skill to create works of aesthetic value, especially in the fine ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
War poems
r is kind.' As if a child could think that someone who killed his father was kind. Or he contrasts 'virtue' with 'slaughter' ('Point for them the virtue of slaughter') and 'excellence' with 'killing.' ... lence of killing'). War may be honorable, purposeful, or necessary, but it is not kind, there is no virtue in slaughter, and there is no excellence in killing.Whitman notes in 'Beat! Drums! Beat!' tha ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
In dubious battle by Steinbeck
ers to use their power to strike. Torgas valley was in the hands of the Growers Association, who by virtue of ownership of the orchards also held power. In our culture the suspicion that life can be u ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > John Steinbeck
Aristotle and Friendship, Philosophical Ethics
even if the individual had all of the other good things in life. He also describes friendship as a virtue and as just. Given the above statements on friendship, it is safe to say that Aristotle felt ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy
Virtues of my life
person. The present day provides impediments which I believe I can overcome by way of morality and virtue. Order, courage, patience, and faith are all virtues necessary for personal achievement in my ... ourage, patience, and faith are all virtues necessary for personal achievement in my life.The first virtue I have chosen is order. In agreement with Russell Kirk, I also believe that 'order is the pat ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics
Themes in "The Minister's Black Veil" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
ediately 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 Minister's Black Veil, these elem ... s criticizing a society which can be so intolerant of individuals who have slipped from the path of virtue, and seems deeply concerned with the increasing discipline exercised over selves in order to ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Confucius, Philosophy of Religion. About cinfusianism and christianity
The premise of Confucian teachings are centered around the idea of Jen or the "virtue of humanity (Ching 68)." To accomplish this divinity, five relationships must be honored: rul ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Alfred Nobel and the prizes named after him
me to regard himself as a citizen of the world. Even so, he never gave up his Swedishcitizenship.By virtue of the education he received in many countries, Nobel read, spoke and wrote fluently in five ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Engineering > Chemical Engineering
Criticism of "The Indifferent" John Donne
In this poem, 'he presents a lover who regards constancy as a 'vice' and promiscuity as the path of virtue and good sense' (Hunt 3). Because of Donne's Christian background, this poem was obviously me ... the speaker continues upon the theme of faithfulness being a 'vice,' and sexual promiscuity being a virtue. 'The sexual tone which was suggested in the first stanza in the anti-romantic details of 'sp ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
"Billy Budd" by Herman Melville
s that we need to strike some kind of balance between these two ideas; we need to have morality and virtue; we need to be in the world, but not of the world.To illustrate his theme, Melville uses a fe ... only be concerned about ourselves, but also about those around us. Perhaps that through morals and virtue, we can rise above the evil in the world and make an impact on the lives of those around us.T ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Charity in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
characters from the 1400's in order to paint portraits of human dishonesty and stupidity as well as virtue. Out of these twenty-nine character portraits three of them are especially interesting becaus ... of them are especially interesting because they deal with charity. Charity during the 1400's, was a virtue of both religious and human traits. One character, the Parson, exemplifies Chaucer's idea of ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > "Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucher
Social contract in the view of Rousseau and Locke
d elaborated upon in that relationship. Locke also establishes the issues and viability relating to virtue. Almost the entire key members of the intellectual activity of the eighteenth century in Engl ... of justifiable and workable government, Locke also establishes the issues and viability relating to virtue. Locke believes that the only reason society degenerates to armed conflict and strife is beca ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Political Theory
CONFUCIUS, GANDHI AND THE AESTHETICS OF VIRTUE
CONFUCIUS, GANDHI AND THEAESTHETICS OF VIRTUEI think that in trying to find out whether moral goodness and beauty are in fact always linked ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics