This statement clearly shows that he is a person who strongly opposes the Philosophy of Altruism. ... In the film, the writer teaches her audience that one of the ways to measure the integrity of a person is to be true to his self. ... Rand believes that moral virtue is a requirement of practical success in every endeavor of life. ... Writer Rand effectively uses strong characters throughout the entire film to portray that a person's real values are those things or persons he or she considers valuable and of significant worth that can fill life with meaning and purpose. ... He rules his p...

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Virtue Speaks Louder than Words Responsibility, courage, compassion, loyalty, honesty, persistence, and self-discipline; every person should recognize these traits as essentials of good character. ... But every person capable of understanding morality, should strive to build character based on these virtues. Possibly only one person in recent history has achieved the highest of moral standards, and has been a shining example of virtue; that person is Benjamin Franklin. ... Throughout his life, Benjamin Franklin served as a moral beacon of integrity, loyalty, and courage for all to see. .....

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", virtue ethics tends to ask the question "what kind of person do I want to be?", and instead of defining one's moral duties by nature, virtue ethics seeks out the "good life" and what conditions and characteristics make up this "good life". Virtue ethics prescribes that we imagine a picture of the good life and of the good person and act in accordance to those ideals. ... With this, Aristotle is attempting to understand how we should act in order to become a virtuous person and attain the "good life"; this being a foundational principle of ...

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The lustful person accords his actions to his appetites and thereby neglects reason. ... He writes, "we must take as an indication of a person's states of pleasure or pain consequent on what he does, because the person who abstains from bodily pleasures and finds his enjoyment in doing just this is temperate, whilst the person doing it oppressive is intemperate " (1104b, NE). A temperate person will gain a higher pleasure by abstaining from such indulgence than by surrendering to appetitive compulsions. ... He writes, "everyone of them was so cross-eyed of mind in the first life, that no...

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Which he believes that anyone can create happiness if they are serving their purpose in life every day and making decisions that are good for the specific job in this world. ... To Aristotle the end of this judge's life would create happiness as long as they are continuing to make moral decisions every time they rule. ... I believe that this statement leads to the thought that every person will always make morally ethical decisions which is not the case for everyone on a daily basis. ... Decisions made for the good create a positive virtue, while unethical decisions made be a person in th...

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This is perhaps due to the declining basis of traditional morality through religious teaching, and therefore a greater desire to understand the ways of living a good and prosperous life rather than following strict rules; something which the agent-centered nature of virtue ethics inherently achieves. ... She saw other contemporary ethical theories as heavily reliant on a basis of punishment and reward such as Kant's rewarding of morality through the 'Summum Bonum'; therefore they could not provide a guideline to achieve the moral life. ... Hence, what Anscombe believed in was...

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Utilitarianism and Kant's philosophy of principle, duty-based ethics and virtue ethics represent three different interpretations and theories however virtue ethics offers more as a basis for living a good ethical life. ... Aristotle considers what the ultimate goal of a worthwhile human life should be. ... It considers the 'rightfulness' and 'wrongfulness' consistent with the idea that a 'good person' is one who lives virtuously. ... It's holistic approach focuses on the ethics of the individual considering aspects of the individual's life and ci...

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This theory extends to all walks of life; for instance happiness is achieved in the animal kingdom through sustenance and survival (among other things). ... A sufficient grasp of various intellects allows a person to be in (apparent) full realization of his surroundings and more assertively independent. ... While the people of Ancient Greece needed guidance, as they remain an isolated bubble of wisdom, an essay of this nature can profoundly alter a person and thereby prohibiting independent realization. ... Necrophilia, gluttony, avarice, and drug addiction are prevalent in people whose sh...

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People would rather be in the presence of someone that they like than some person that they dislike because people favor to be in an atmosphere where hate does not present itself. ... In addition, I reminded he reason why he wanted to attend college, to succeed in life and to open his own automobile business. ... Long gave me the support to go on with my life by saying things such as "Does your father want you to live your life miserably and hurting yourself by not eating and crying." He helped me to wake up from the black hole that I had made of depression because he said things to encoura...

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For example, anyone can have an understanding of their present actions; however, a virtuous person understands their present actions as well as the future consequences they must deal with, whether positive or negative. ... Likewise, those actions are credible and without sin with both cases being seen as issues with another person and her pointing out the faults. ... Even in her past life as Nalayani, she was kind and devoted to her leprous husband; "She obeyed all his erratic commands, accepted his fickle moods All this she did without hesitation or mental protest, totally effacing her own eg...

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Socrates was certain that corrupting oneself with the attitude that all that mattered in life was how much higher you were placed above other people led to a fate that was worse than death, "it is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death." ... Socrates explained that the soul was an eternal representation of oneself and if corrupted by desire for material goods it will forever cloud the judgement of what is valuable to a person. ... In conclusion, Socrates has spent most of his philosophical life debating with polit...

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Bosola defies understanding, for his professions and actions are at cross purpose, and his behavior in the play is irreconcilable with his philosophical wisdom and moral vision of life. Una Ellis Fermor in the Jacobean Drama points out that not only is Bosola an enigma and a mystery to his readers, but he must have remained so to himself for he does not know what he actually stands for and seeks to acquire in life. Bosola is the most complex person in the play, and in many respects the most interesting. ...

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Values are acquired and develop during life, a lot of teachers should be worry about developing than values like qualities that a teacher should have are a lot but they can be condensed in three such as: responsibility, patience and humility. ... Just imagine what would happen if a worker attend late to work, this would produce less that another one who attends to his job on time, another problem would be that nobody will assign to an irresponsible person a great work because he will not realize well. ... A big reality is that everyone in life has many problems but the others are not guilty of...

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The first is a life that merely seeks pleasure [Pathos], and is easily dismissed by Aristotle as being the best life. The second is a political life. Although noble and worthy of discussion, this life is also dismissed as being the best life as it is incomplete. For Aristotle believes it is the third life, the one of contemplation, that is the best life as it is an inherently philosophical life (Nicomachean Ethics 257). ... By ruling out feelings and capacities, Aristotle determines that "virtue, then, is a state that decides, consisting in a mean, the mean relative to us, which is defined ...

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Plato expresses in the "Republic- that a person and later a state must aim to achieve the four principal virtues. ... From his perspective, it is the quality of mind, the pysche organization that enables a person to act virtuously. ... When asked by Socrates about old age, the acquisition of wealth, and the experience of life, Cephalus told, the combination of these things has enabled him to achieve the good life and achieve justice. ... Happiness, says Socrates, is not in the accumulation of material and a life of festivities. ...

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This belief system also entails the belief that the ultimate personal harmony in life is the relationships one has with: ruler to subject, parent to child, husband to wife, older to younger, and friend-to-friend. ... Overall I feel that Confucianism has stronger proof, and is a better theory for a person to follow. ... Besides being a philosophy in my opinion Confucianism is an ethical way of life. ...

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Within each of these companies or industries they have either a certain person or even a division that takes care and over sees the ethical situations with in the company. ... If he fired him to soon that person might miss out on extra sever ants pay, paid leave and benefits, but if he didn't fire him until that date, how would he feel if he later finds out that there were other individuals in the same situation that he did not do the same for. ... Ethics to me is something that you live your life by and if you don't have a good understanding or base then it is going to be hard for s...

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Machiavelli adopts a more practical perspective not on the moral capability of men, but on the role morality will actually play in daily life. ... Machiavelli initially deviates from Aristotle's argument in "The Prince," when he discusses the harsh reality of human nature as it has manifested in political life. ... If Cesare had undermined the role of the church in political life prior to his father's death, then one may infer that Cesare's downfall would have been avoidable. ... No person in society desires to be ruled by the great, the people desire liberty. ... Aristotle woul...

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