The ego understands that other people have needs and desires and that sometimes being impulsive or selfish can hurt us and others in life. ... This burden prevented him from doing what his wicked subconscious pressured him to do. ... The desire to squeeze and hurt was overmastering." ... Ralph, knowing that this was wrong, felt compelled to partake in this event because he felt the natural desire to be accepted. ... The most primitive human desires all lead to evil behaviour without social and judicial intervention. ...

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Starting off, Aristotle knows that for every action, there is a desired end result or reaction. Whatever this result may be, it always is some form of human good, although some desires are not universally accepted as being positively good. ... The ultimate desire of humans is the state of happiness. ... To clarify, Aristotle's usage of the word soul does not imply anything religious in nature, as the word conjures thoughts of religion and implications of the afterlife, but of one's developing subconscious with the precursor of cognizant choice. Moderation between two extremes of...

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His moralistic behaviour seems to arise from a keen sense of his own suffering at the hands of an abusive father, and his impulse for compassion is childlike, as shown by his desire to "take humanity to bed with him" (Conrad: p167). ... This clear cut definition of the reasons behind the Professor's nihilism shows that his intellectual system arises from a personal grievance against society- "The way of even the most justifiable revolutions is prepared by personal grievances" (Conrad: p102) The Professor feels that his merit has been overlooked and that he has been unjustly treated, so s...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate