His life was a constant quest for excellence of being, wisdom and of morality of the soul. ... The city and individual take on a parent and child relationship, or one of slave and master. ... He did not care about wealth or personal status, only about wisdom and morality. ...
He is the first thinker who moved away from the classics and reformation thinkers and came to "modern solution" using critics and more modern, rational, empirical methods, criticized religion, morality. ... Everybody having equal rights to welfare of society and do not afraid to use any means to get the aim they want because they are far from morality. ... Besides, as was already mentioned, people are far from morality, which could be kind of guarantee of the functioning of natural laws. ... "What man loses by social contract is his natural liberty and an unlimited right to everything ...
- If men are not under control of some powerful master, they do not find much pleasure in the company of others, because they expect to be valued by others to the same extent as they value themselves. ... XXI Of the Liberty of Subjects John Locke - First is the assumption of a system of morality--the natural law derives from a theory of justice, a set of rights. ...
Many critics regard "King Lear" as the greatest, and most tragic, of William Shakespeare's plays; indeed, some claim that it is the most tragic play ever written. And yet, it is difficult to see why we should regard "King Lear" as a tragedy for the King is basically a pathetic old man, vain and foolish, rash in his judgment and incapable of controlling his emotions. This characterization seems to preclude viewing Lear on the Aristotelian model of a tragic hero, as someone raised above the ordinary level of humanity, except in the most conventional sense of his social status. Moreover, in ...
