A virtuous person is one adheres to a standard of right conduct. ... The purpose of this is to develop knowledge, skills, and character of a person. ... The logic is that with a good education, the person will have a great job and a great job will result in a great income, which will determine the quality of life he or she will come to enjoy. ... The character of a person can be either good or bad. ... In the American culture, life is based on the notion of rugged individualism. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

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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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He proved that even undistinguished persons in Boston could, through industry, become great figures of importance in America. ... He spent the early years of his life as a printer, moralist, essayist, scientist, inventor, and a philosopher. ... Benjamin Franklin began his autobiography by addressing his son, with the intention of telling the story of his life. ... Franklin carried this lesson throughout life. ... It was this mentality, he believed, that helped him become such a success later on in life. ...

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Philosophers often struggle to define justice – what it is, who controls it, and who suffers or benefits from it. Aeschylus presents controversy about defining justice between different gods in the Eumenides. He expresses this through the magical features of the ancient world and through a trial o...

• Word Count: 2577
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Multicultural counseling requires the recognition of: (1) the importance of racial/ethnic group membership on the socialization of the client; (2) the importance of and the uniqueness of the individual; (3) the presence of and place of values in the counseling process; and (4) the uniqueness of learning styles, vocational goals, and life purposes of clients, within the context of principles of democratic social justice (Locke, 1986). ... The virtue of self-understanding based on honesty, openness, and willingness to take responsibility for one's life would allow counselors to conclude wh...

• Word Count: 5041
• Approx Pages: 20
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

Multicultural counseling requires the recognition of: (1) the importance of racial/ethnic group membership on the socialization of the client; (2) the importance of and the uniqueness of the individual; (3) the presence of and place of values in the counseling process; and (4) the uniqueness of learning styles, vocational goals, and life purposes of clients, within the context of principles of democratic social justice (Locke, 1986). ... The virtue of self-understanding based on honesty, openness, and willingness to take responsibility for one's life would allow counselors to conclude wh...

• Word Count: 5041
• Approx Pages: 20
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate