With regarding all mentally differences that Aristotle explained, I believe that he has formalist perspective about the gender differences. ... In his another book Aristotle propound some views about consummating men-women relationships and also supply the order of marriage. ... However, I also disagree with the idea of Aristotle; ruler in the household does not make the relationship permanent, on the contrary the kind of relationship that Aristotle argued can be temporal. ... Christine de Pizan in her book "City of Ladies", tried to defend and restore the honor and reputation of th...

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What does Aristotle mean by virtue? ... As Aristotle explains in Book 1, each and every person is on a search to find Eudaimonia. ... In my opinion I think Aristotle is clearly right when he mentions the happy balance in virtues. I think he gives a very practical explanation considering that he makes it clear that each virtue is relative to the person. I agree with Aristotle on the whole however I think he should have explained how one could know that he or she has a happy balance in the actions he or she does....

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In book two of the ethics Aristotle concerns himself with three objects of choice: the noble, the useful, and the pleasant, as well as three objects of avoidance: the base, the harmful, and the painful. ... I agree with Aristotle's statement affirming that in order to reach the mean, humans must at times pursue the base over the noble. ... I have not directly lived attempting to achieve temperance as described by Aristotle. However, looking back on my life I realize that I've indirectly have been following Aristotle's system in attaining temperance. ... I realized I stole th...

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The couple of pages in the book mainly describe tragedy from Aristotle's point of view. ... Lastly, Aristotle explains the importance of the chorus in a tragedy. ... Light, I shall not look on you Again. I have been born where I should not be born, I have been married where I should not marry, I have killed whom I should not kill; now all is clear" (Sophocles 1144). ... (Sophocles 1293) and that blindness does not necessarily have to be physical as we can se when he says, "If I had sight, I know not with what eyes I would have looked" (Sophocles 1325). ...

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I chose Plato and Aristotle because they were the first and they really came up with their theories. ... He creates a vision for a utopian society, in his book The Republic. ... I don't think that all societies are in need of such drastic reformation as Plato thinks. I would probably be more interested in Aristotle's idea. ... I think it would be a larger unit that would consist of both. ...

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The couple of pages in the book mainly describe tragedy from Aristotle's point of view. ... Lastly, Aristotle explains the importance of the chorus in a tragedy. ... Light, I shall not look on you Again. I have been born where I should not be born, I have been married where I should not marry, I have killed whom I should not kill; now all is clear" (Sophocles 1144). ... (Sophocles 1293) and that blindness does not necessarily have to be physical as we can se when he says, "If I had sight, I know not with what eyes I would have looked" (Sophocles 1325). ...

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I found that men by nature were important and the female were less important, the male is the ruler and the female is the subject. ... Xenophon, Aristotle, and other great minds of the time thought "men and women are, by nature, provided with opposite faculties, which nevertheless provide for the "partnership" of the household. ... On a series of vases beginning in the mid-fifth century BCE, women are portrayed reading together from papyrus book-rolls. ... Aristotle reports that in democracies it was impossible to keep poor women from going out, and it was in fact not just a sign of pri...

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In a religious concept, God makes women; in a philosophical concept, I can say that men make women: they do not make their body but their spiritual domination. At the beginning in the text, Simone de Beauvoir explains in the introduction with how much hesitation she undertook to write a book "about a woman". ... It is common knowledge that Aristotle, Kant, Hegel and many others wrote unfavorably or simply incorrectly about women. In the best-known farcical example is probably Aristotle's assertion that the temperature of the woman's body is lower than that of the man's. ... Sim...

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For an example John Aristotle Phillips was born in 1955 in Connecticut. ... And all the time you're having fun reading the book and looking things up on the internet you are actually learning something. ... My mother read A Child's book of Hero's that was published in the Weekly Reader, written by Dorothy Heiderstadt in 1954. Reading that book gave her a lifelong interest in history. ... I think that is also why I love to read horror stories too. ...

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This is an exert from chapter one of the book. ... In contrast, Character is Destiny quotes Aristotle as saying, "you are what you repeatedly do (Gough 5)."" ... In Character is Destiny the quote by Aristotle I think better describes character. ... I think that Aristotle's example is more helpful to me, than the example from The Dive From Clausen's Pier. ... By the end of the book, Carrie changes her mind and comes back to Mike. ...

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He and his pupil figured out that the death is caused by a book which the church has hid somewhere. Due to the poisoned pages in the book people die as they try to turn the pages and put their fingers in the mouth. ... The main books in the library included books by Aristotle, father of philosophy, and church didn't like Aristotle's ideas and writings. ... I liked the acting of William and his pupil who performed very good especially when he was young. ... In conclusion, I like the movie; it is worth watching. ...

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I believe I fit this verse well and hope I can lead further in life. ... I am very outgoing and I love to meet new people because I can broaden myself and my mind. Being a leader is something I strive for in wherever I go and whatever I do. ... Aristotle said, "He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader. ... Author Max DePree said in his book Leadership Is an Art, In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be, by remaining what we are. ...

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Aristotle and his followers also believed that everything outside the earth was perfectly spherical and smooth, apparently a quality of ether (University of Michigan). ... In 1597, his friend, Jacopo Mazzoni, a philosopher, published a book against the motion of the Earth. ... These assumptions were, of course, based on the works of Aristotle. ... After observing the phases of Venus, it seemed perfectly obvious to Galileo that Aristotle's Earth-centred model of the universe must be false. ... The astronomical discoveries he made with his telescopes were described in a short book calle...

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I"m sure there are plenty of historians, past and present, that have claimed to have truly understood Alexander and his history, yet I doubt that any of them have truly understood him on a whole, as I am almost positive that I never will either. ... One of the reasons Alexander is seen by some as a savior, and a fair human being, could be because of the tutelage of Aristotle in his youth. ... Alexander was sent to Meiza, where Aristotle had his school, and received his tuition amongst other children of noble birth. ... It is know that Aristotle taught Alexander much of the duties of kings, ...

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I always try to find a good relationship between various civilizations and today's world. ... A great Greek Philosopher named Plato wrote a book about different ways of governing countries. ... Aristotle discovered many things in science and biology. ... Philosophers such as Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle made their contributions for which they are famous even today. ... Aristotle also wrote important works, including Poetics, a masterpiece of literary criticism. ...

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When you read a book on Aristotle, do you then know him? ... I know what war is however I do not come anywhere near understanding war or the effects it has on those who have experienced it. While I may be able to understand the premise of war I cannot understand war on its full scale. I can explain to someone what I have been trained to do in war situations, however, I could not say that is actually what would occur because I have no idea what the variables of the combat situation would be. ... I have learned from those who were there and passed their knowledge on, so that if the time should e...

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He wrote a book that introduced his famous Lombardi's leadership model, which explains how results create leaders. ... I don't know anything else I could tell this team. ... Boys, I tell you I"d be so proud of that, I just fill myself up with myself. ... In this paper, I will use Aristotle's Rhetoric, to show that Vince Lombardi was not only a great coach but also an excellent persuader. ... In Lombardi's speech, he says, "I don't know anything else I could tell this team. ...

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I believe that Nietzsche's grapple with the concepts he tries to make sense of, lead to his eventual insanity. ... Aristotle was all about finding happiness. ... I could easily turn this into a 20-page paper if I went into depth on all his views, so I will lightly touch on his biggest points. ... This brings us to his largest statement in this book, the "Will to Power-. ... In this book Nietzsche kills god and calls all Christianity a hypocritical waste of thought. ...

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I think the fresco represents Michelangelo's concept of the human potential for perfection. ... These new thinkers were called humanists, and they Jaramillo 2 revived the old works of Greek and Roman philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle. ... The focus of this book is how to properly rule a monarchy. ...

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Aristotle is the first to define and use a tragic hero in the play "Oedipus Rex," translated from the Greek meaning King Oedipus (pronounced edipis). ... However, I suppose that the two are directly related, for Okonkwo's inability to change was because of his need to disregard his father's ways. The very last sentence in the book is the notion of the title of the District Commissioner's new book. "He had already chosen the title of the book, after much thought: The Pacification of the Primitive Tribes of the Lower Niger." ... They say that love is blind, but I believe the o...

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Life Strategies for Teens by Jay Mcgraw "The secret to success is to know something nobody else does (Aristotle Onassis)." I discovered that the true test of the value of this book, or any other book, should be whether or not it changes your life. ... This look is based upon the book Life Strategies. ... This book translates them for you. ... I know what I want, and I want it now! ...

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Nowadays I feel that their is a sort of antipathy towards Arab-Americans after the terrorist attacks on 9-11 by arab terrorists just like their was a resentment toward Japanese-Americans 60 years ago after the attacks on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan.. ... They translated Aristotle, Plato, Socrates, Pythagoras, the whole Pantheon of Greek learning and art into Arabic, and brought it back to life in Islamic culture. ... The word 'algebra' is Arabic, from the book "Hisab al-jabr w'al muqabala", written around 830 by the renowned astronomer and mathematician Moh...

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Of all these, his first I found most stimulating. ... Now, I do have a problem with Hume's arguments too. ... Great minds like Socrates, Plato, Paley, Aristotle, Augustine, Anselm, Descartes have made arguments for the existence of God. ... I say give science 500 years (maybe 100?) ... Hey ., like I said, that is my opinion....

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In this book, the author talks about the obligations that people have in order to do the right thing in problematic situations in a society. ... This book focuses on what justice is to people. ... Aristotle said that justice is giving people what they deserve. ... This statement gives strength to the whole book by mentioning that doing the right thing is not always easy, which is very true. ... I believe I do not act freely either. ...

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At a very young age, I was taught how to make the sign of the cross, I was given a kiddie book about the Life of Saints and a sort of children's bible and that going to Mass every Sunday was a requirement. During Christmas season, I was being brought to Church at 4 in the morning even though I'll just sleep for the whole duration of the Mass, because Mom said that whenever I complete the "Misa de Gallo," Jesus will grant me any wish I made. ... At first, it will seem unusual why or what this book has got to do with a Political Science student's academic life. If happi...

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