Rationality and happiness are activities of the soul, and virtue is the excellence of these activities. Humans are the only life forms that have souls, the source of rationality. ... Three things are found in the soul: emotions, capacities, and characteristics. ... There are two different aspects of the soul: the irrational and the rational. ... Two aspects of virtue, the intellectual and the moral, are divided very similarly to these different aspects of soul. ...

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In his view moral principles exist in the daily activities of human life and can be discovered by examining those activities. ... The rational soul may be rational in itself, and the animal soul may be subject to reason "that is, ruled by reason. ... Their animal soul is not subject to the guidance of reason. Such a person lacks what Aristotle calls moral virtue. ... Virtues and vices are states of character. ...

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Aristotle thinks that virtue is mostly realized through friendship. ... In activities that people have there are three main things people want when it comes to friendships; pleasure, utility or the good. ... Moreover, friendship is also basically good since it stands for a development or perfection of the human person, what Aristotle would call a good of the soul. ... Socrates and Crito have different forms of virtue. ... I do not think they are equals in virtue. ...

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The virtues of Faust are often argued. ... Faust did not make a "pact" with Mephisto or accept his service in exchange for his soul. ... In addition Faust is involved in many activities that can be considered to be amoral. ... Faust also engages in other activities that seem deserving of eternal damnation. ... Faust engages more frequently in these immoral activities. ...

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Aristotle believes that the chief ingredient for a life of happiness is virtue. Virtue is a state of the soul that disposes and prompts our actions and is meant to guide our behaviors in society and enable us to practice moderation. ... In order to lead a life of goodness there must be a foundation of adequate health, adequate wealth, and goods of the soul. ... This is the active life of virtue and this is all for the sake of the soul. ... Calculative reason is practical wisdom which leads to moral virtue. ...

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The temple hopes that with their teachings, when their children grow up they will know virtues and not bring bad habits into the world. In schools, they never learn how to take care of his or her soul. ... They also look at her practice and her virtues. ... The bell is used to keep the people and the souls around awake. ... After every activity is finished, they pray and offer virtues to Buddha. ...

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Every action by individual requires direct divine activity in efforts to form a pre-established harmony. ... Monads are representative of a windowless soul that has a predetermined direction that is positioned by means of god. ... Leibniz argues, "Our soul expresses god and the universe and all essences as well as all existences. ... The foundations in his book focused on the interaction between one's soul, the exterior world, and God. ... Liebniz supports this by stating, " God alone, and he is in immediate relation with us only by virtue of our continual dependence on him" "No other ex...

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During the time when the rest of Europe was in the throes of medieval Feudalism and Manorialism, all commerce had stopped, but merchants and artists in northern Italy had maintained trade and commerce activities with both the Byzantine East and the European West. ... One of Petrarch's legacies was his belief that the recovery and study of the works of antiquity could restore virtue, culture, and social order. ... Petrarch expected to achieve great fame from his epic biographical poem Africa, which was based on the life of Scipio Africanus who, to Petrarch, embodies the valiant and pious...

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His purpose for living ideas led him to ideas about the soul, God and what causes change. He believed the soul was a part of the human body and died with the body. ... A person who lives a virtuous life has a better chance at happiness than someone who lives without virtues. ... He defines happiness as something you can do by your own activity. ... Aristotle defines virtue as a dispositon developed over time. ...

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What do you, as a boy or girl or man or women have to gain that is lastingly good from sexual activity? ... You are taking the chance of becoming a rebellious person that can lead you into other damaging activities. ... Chastity is a gift from God, for every person in every walk of life a powerful virtue that is a foundation for real intimacy, purity of mind and body (Diamond 11). ... Chastity for West is actually a positive virtue, because it orders our sexual desires, thought, and behaviors toward the truth of authentic love. ... But more fundamentally it contradicts our belief that ...

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Harlem Renaissance From 1920 until about 1930 an unprecedented outburst of creative activity among African Americans occurred in all literary discussions in the lower Manhattan and upper Manhattan sections of New York City, this African American cultural movement became known as "The Negro Movement" and later as the Harlem Renaissance. ... Her own compositions included "God Bless the Child," espousing the virtues of financial independence; "Don't Explain," lament on infidelity; and "Strange Fruit," a haunting protest against the racial discrimination she encountered throughout her ca...

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The Depression was the worst and longest period of high unemployment and low business activity in modern times. ... Upon his return, Casy has decided that sin and virtue are all part of the same thing- the Emersonian concept of the Oversoul. This states that that the souls of all humans are only part of a larger soul that encompasses every one. ...

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He states the "strength and facility" (p.3) of this argument, but says that its own strength is its problem: "If the universe is so bad how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator? ... But what about the possibility of some humans equating their virtues with supernatural awes to better control other humans? ... A person experiencing pleasure and happiness sees no reason to repent and turn to God, but pain "plants the flag of truth within the fortress of a rebel soul" (p.94). ...

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(Riviere, P. 1) For the members in Catch 22, this meant humiliating, over-powering and making fun of others to survive, as an approach illustrated in Captain Black's activities to get people to devour themselves with greediness or, as he puts it, to "eat their livers" (Heller p. 110). ... At the heart of Catch-22 lays treachery of decent principles, the requirement that one sell one's soul to stay alive in this twisted bureaucracy. ... Every human being gives in to it at one point of time or another, all except the chaplain, Major Danby, Yossarian, and the women, retain some capa...

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But howsoever thou pursuest this act, taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive against thy mother aught; leave her to heaven, and to those thorns that in her bosom lodge to prick and sting her.... Assume a virtue if you have not Refrain and that shall lend a kind of easiness to the next abstinence," (III. iv. 180-188). ... In 1917, Freud published his essay called Mourning and melancholia in which he identifies its symptoms as: "a profoundly painful dejection, cessation of interest in the outside world, loss of the capacity to love, inhibition of all activity, and a lowering of ...

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Hamlet is able to make his mother reflect upon her part in the death of his father and feel guilt "Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul, and there I see such black and grained spots as will not leave their tinct." ... Assume a virtue, if you have it not". ... 'Bedrooms' are private, and conventionally places of sexual activity, so Shakespeare may well have presented the two on the bed, or in the bedroom, to suggest their sexual relationship what brings out oedipal relationship between Hamlet and his mother. ...

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