All these distinctions between literature and non-literature: personal expression, realization, lack of practical purpose and fictionality are restatements within a framework of semantic analysis of age old aesthetic terms such as: unity in variety, aesthetic distance, framing, invention and imitation. ... Such portrayals provide justification for men to commit such acts themselves, and therefore these misrepresentations of gods and heroes are harmful to a general populace. ... Imitation proper appears in the Republic in Book III, where Plato begins to consider the more complicated case of ...

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-Aristotle Democracy: a form of government that makes political decisions directly exercised by the whole body of citizens, under procedures of majority rule. ... (McGlew, 27) The ability of a tyrant to have complete control over a city-state created an image within the eyes of the citizens as a character of horror. ... In Athens new democratic state there was cooperation between individual freedom and authority of the state unseen in the past forms of government. ... The control of the state was in the hands of the people and decisions of the state were reached by the mass of people. ... Wher...

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1. PREHISTROIC/EGYPT/MESOPOTAMIA Early on, when man had but a basic understanding of himself, it is theorized that he (they) had a basic religious belief. The belief was in Animism and The Locus Mundi. Animism is the term given to the belief that everything has its own spirit, or energy. Not j...

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Aristotle was the third great Greek philosopher. ... Aristotle tried to reconcile Pericles and Plato (i.e., political action and philosophy) in one. ... He said that the pre-industrial state of nature was a reasonable and moral place where men were "born free as we are born rational," with reason and morality. ... He lists four reasons we left the natural state to enter into a society with government. ... This creates "the bonds of society...by agreeing with other men."" ...

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Because the plow required considerable strength, it was used only by men. Men spent most of the rest of their time raiding or looking out for raiders, so women mostly did everything else which involved lots of drudgery. 5. ... As ruler of the state, the pharaoh owned everything the people owned, including the people themselves. ...

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Aristotle stated that 'by nature' there were free men and slaves, yet if inequalities are natural, Crompton suggests there be no need to explain them. ... For Marx, state power was inseparable from economic power, and capitalism was but a mechanism for the development of the capitalist mode of production. ... Due to technological change and the expansion of state provisions, people are spending less time in paid employment and are therefore less dependent on the sale of their labour in order to obtain the services they need. ... The gendered division of labour is posing tremendous ob...

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In the Egyptian religion it was believed that the human body was born in a healthy state and would not become ill unless there was an influence from a foreign agent. ... The Humor Theory was the Greek belief that the body consisted of four fluids: phlegm, blood, yellow bile, and black bile and when these fluids were out of balance it caused disease within the human body. ... Other great figures in the medical advancements of the Ancient Greeks include Aristotle, who lived after Hippocrates and had a very sophisticated view on anatomy. ...

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It was an age keeping pace with the bold adventures of men discovering new lands, and full of the work of scientists like Copernicus who had revealed man's true place and significance in the scheme of things. ... Scholasticism focused on preparing men to be doctors, layers of professional theologians, and was taught from approved textbooks in logic, natural philosophy, medicine, law and theology. ... Abram's 'A Glossary of Literary Terms' defines Renaissance Humanism, stating that some of the key concepts of the philosophy centered around "the dignity and central positio...

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Great writers and philosophers such as Aristotle, Socrates, Nietzsche, Sophocles, and Shakespeare have paved the way for many imaginative play writers and authors to this day. There is something that drives every writer, something within them that creates their plays based on tragedies in their own lives or satirical writings to have people realize a social or political belief they might have. ... Apollo and Dionysus are sons of Zeus; Father of Gods and men. ... He possesses the ability of forgiveness and faith within one's own self. ... Even when these men manage to make a conscious deci...

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It is often easy to say that all men were created equally and should be treated equally, but the Anglo-Saxons along with most current societies have neglected the fact and created a social "ladder- for people. The idea of inequality goes even as far back as Aristotle when he stated: The universe resembles a large and well-regulated family, in which all the officers and servants, and even the domestic animals, are subservient to each other in a proper subordination; each enjoys the privileges and perquisites peculiar to his place, and at the same time contributes, by just that subordination, ...

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Alexander was educated as a student by the Greek philosopher Aristotle. ... Within a year of his accession, Alexander extended his dominions northward toward the Danube River and westward towards the Adriatic Sea. ... It required a large army to move an enormous distance from its supply bases, through and unfamiliar country, against a power incalculably rich in money and men. ... His men were superior in discipline and experience in the field, but he was short in numbers and well aware of it. ... The most important being the Greek city state. ...

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Psyche Although willing to provide a common account of the soul in these general terms, Aristotle devotes most of his energy in De Anima to detailed investigations of the soul's individual capacities or faculties, which he first lists as nutrition, perception, and mind, with perception receiving the lion's share of attention.  ... In fact, the frequent use of myths in many of his poems proves that, Tennyson believed not to stagnate in a melancholic state. ...

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In 1960, Soviet Premier Khrushchev supplied Cuba with nuclear missiles that would put the eastern United States within range of nuclear missile attack. ... Three men casually walked down the aisle; and from eight feet opened fire with sawed-off double barreled shotguns. ... The book explained how women were being mistreated and what women can to do to be equal to men. ... They focused on self-awareness and open discussion to fight discrimination and to establish greater equality between men and women in marriage, child rearing, education, and employment. ...

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In writing the history of the Peloponnesian War he limited himself to matters of state and war; he tried to establish chronology and facts with some exactitude, avoiding the digressions of Herodotus; though his attempt at writing a factual and impartial history was not entirely successful, he wrote a grave work, conveying the lessons he drew from his story. ... Augustine's City of God; it was outstandingly illustrated by Paulus Orosius and continued by such lesser men as Isidore of Seville. ... Men such as Petrarch, Lorenzo Valla, Marsilius of Padua, and Juan Luis Vives did much to produc...

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