... Writers Rand and Pirsig argues in different ways the proposition that happiness is the state of the conscious mind which can be achieved by combining both Rational and Romantic thinking process to achieve an Inner Peace and a higher Quality life. They argue that idea of a meaningful life cannot be created unless ... to attain greatness and Keating to achieve happiness in life. According to the writer, a rational man can only achieve happiness who desires nothing but rational goals, seeks nothing but rational values, and finds his joy in nothing but rational actions. In the light of the ...

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... difference between "customary" and "reflective" moralities treatment of the virtues, Dewey remarks: Reflective morality instead of leaving praise and blame where they were except for putting under them a rational basis tends to shift the emphasis to scrutiny of conduct in an objective way, that is with reference to its causes and results. .. The possession of a reflective standard checks ... ."(20) Aristotlean moral virtues are the virtues of the fully developed adult Greek male - a person who has successfully realized his potential for the exercise of the specifically human function of...

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... to study virtue better"" (Nicomachean Ethics 264). This observation leads Aristotle to analyze virtue as it relates to the soul. According to Aristotle, the soul consists of two parts, the rational and the irrational. Likewise, Aristotle believed that there are two types of virtue, virtue of thought [intellectual virtue] and virtue of character [moral virtue] (Nicomachean Ethics 264). Before discussing the ... examination of the two parts of the soul mentioned earlier. Just as he had split the soul into two parts earlier, Aristotle goes on to do the same with the rational part of the so...

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... developed a purpose other than mere survival. Rationality and reason allow humans to devise complex systems of morality and self development, also know as virtue. Virtuous behavior is the product of rational thought and is in the foreground of human consciousness rather than animalistic survival tendencies. Primitive instincts of survival are even governed by perceptions of virtue. Aristotle then objectively defines what ... to the loving sensation. Aristotle argues that morality is not an automatic response triggered by inborn human survival instincts. Morality was devised by society t...

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... , Aristotle would compare schools of fish, flocks of geese, hives of bees, anthills, and so forth.] Third argument: (1) Nature does nothing pointlessly. (2) A human being is the only animal with rational discourse, logon. (3) Rational discourse is for making clear what is expedient or harmful, and hence what is just or unjust. (4) It is community in good and evil, and just and unjust, that ... ...

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... State as well, and vice versa. What is needed, is to harmonize functions of different citizens' strata that correspond to three parts of soul, the stratum of philosophers, corresponding to rational soul with wisdom as its virtue, the stratum of warriors, whose virtue is courage, the stratum of craftsmen, the desiring part of soul, with abstinence as its primary virtue, conforming ... to cowardice as "shortage- on the other. He considers courage as middle between imprudent bravery and cowardice, generosity - as mean between wastefulness and avarice. In Aristotle's view, moral action is r...

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... make proper decisions of ethical manner as they cannot be swayed with emotion and passion. This statement is a matter of theory because Aristotle feels as if younger individuals cannot make rational decisions or moral choice because they lack the knowledge and experience to make these decisions. I believe that this theory has its truths due to the way that Aristotle feels it ... ...

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... must always be appealed to and regulate the appetites. He writes, "he who pursues them [the pleasures concerned with those bodily indulgences] to excess and avoids excessive pains not from rational choice but in opposition to it and his thinking, is called incontinent " (1148a, Nicomachean Ethics). Aristotle condemns those who are ruled by desire and suffer from wantonness. He argues one ... ...

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... , a person must be careful not to stare or otherwise make the person uncomfortable by focusing too intently. A low, level voice normally gives the impression that a thoroughly thought out argument or a rational point is being made. Regardless of how much communication has changed over the years, no single pattern has emerged superior over another for the entire population as a whole. The techniques ... ...

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... . Bitter and angered by the political corruption that gripped the Athenian democratic government, he disengaged from participating in politics. He strongly felt that neither a moral individual nor a state that is rational could be established in a democratic environment. Plato felt that the common man wasn't intelligent or capable of dealing with concepts that influence the state such as economics, policy of foreign ... ...

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... success. Edwards tells his story according to his religious thoughts and feelings and is considered to belong in the spiritual autobiography category. Where previous Puritans insisted on using reason or rational thought to prove the logic of Biblical truth, Edwards portrays his spiritual journey as an emotional growth. He encourages Puritans to express their faith in emotional terms and insists that ... ...

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... enemies, but are friendly to their allies. The third virtue includes the entire state abiding to moderation, self-control, an agreement that the leaders control the state by orders. All rational beings are in need of guidance and education. Guardians through wisdom try to comprehend a purpose, function or end goal, the human telos is rationality. Next, he correlates the social classes ... ...

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... of his own doing, Hitler, in a sense, created Hitler. Self-induced deception fueled by group socialization (instituted by the Hitler himself through the self-presentation feedback loop) undermined his own rational capacities. Hitler could not think apart from the elaborate scheme of self-deception upon which he had carefully structured his identity, ideology and the German nation. Did Hitler know that ... ...

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