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- 151: Lysistrata
- ... a "craft" comedy poet in the fourth century B.C. during the time of the Peloponnesian War. Aristophanes' usual style was to be too satirical, and suggesting the outlandish. He shows little mercy when mocking Socrates and his "new-fangled ideas" which were most likely designed to destroy the cohesiveness of society and lead to anarchy, in his play The Clouds. The most absurd and humorous of Aristophanes' comedies are those ...
- 152: The Renaissance Period
- ... If one analyzes Raphael’s works, there are reasons for the harmony and realistic perspective. Raphael looked back to ancient Roman Architecture when painting buildings, the subjects always came from antiquity, such as Plato and Socrates. The bodies of Raphael’s figures were muscular and idealized and full of motion and gestures, further adding to the realism. In the short thirty seven years of his life, Raphael summarized and epitomized the ...
- 153: Al-Razi
- ... scientific books to all sacred books. Al-Razi is considered to have been the greatest physician of the Islamic world. With reference to his Greek predecessors, Al-Razi viewed himself as the Islamic version of Socrates in Philosophy, and Hippocrates in medicine. Al-Razi was a prolific author, who has left monumental treatises on numerous subjects. He has more than two hundred outstanding scientific contributions to his credit, out of which ...
- 154: Description Dominance of Greco-Roman Culture
- ... Western tradition is that Greek culture was in fact the highest moment of the entire history of the humanities...At the heart of Classicism was the search for perfection." Obviously the works and ideas of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle are generally concerned with the pursuit of perfection in humanity, government, etc. Philo of Alexandria, a Jew, even acknowledged the merit of Greek philosophy. He says, "So behold me daring, not only ...
- 155: Benefits Of Pet Ownership
- ... pet companionship offers concrete health benefits (Simross 14). While only in the past few decades have scientists become interested in the benefits of pets on human health (Schellenberg 2), as far back as Plato and Socrates, there were admonishments for people to spend time with animals. . .for their health (Simross 14). Researchers into the impact of animals on our health points to a clear relationship between the presence of pets and ...
- 156: Existentialism
- ... The acceptance of responsibility for the decisions made must also be a part of this practice since making choices comes with the implication of responsibility. This way of thinking is similar to the teachings of Socrates and his theory of objective reality. He taught to many students his belief of , “what we think is true, is true and what we think is right, is right.” Both theories stress the importance of ...
- 157: Michel Foucault And The Cultiv
- ... the promise of the origin interminably recedes." According to Foucault, philosophy began with the purpose of changing people’s lives on an individual level. He viewed ancient philosophy as a way of life centered on Socrates’ coined term “the care of the self”, and later, “the cultivation of the self”. In many ways, Foucault embraced the tradition of philosophy as the art of living. He took himself as a model for ...
- 158: A Comparison and Contrast of the Supernatural's Active Role in the Lives of Mary Rowlandson and Benjamin Franklin
- ... he deems "Desirable" (228). Originally there were only 12 but "a Quaker friend kindly inform'd me that I was generally thought proud" (233). The last virtue is humility, and his statement "imitate Jesus and Socrates", reflect deism(228). Although Franklin does state that he was not able to achieve this virtue, he reveals, " I had a good deal with regard to the Appearance of it" (233). Franklin also had a ...
- 159: Benefits Of Pet Ownership
- ... pet companionship offers concrete health benefits (Simross 14). While only in the past few decades have scientists become interested in the benefits of pets on human health (Schellenberg 2), “as far back as Plato and Socrates, there were admonishments for people to spend time with animals. . .for their health” (Simross 14). “Researchers into the impact of animals on our health points to a clear relationship between the presence of pets and ...
- 160: Death Penality
- ... retaliation; they believed in the rule of "an eye for an eye." Similarly, the ancient Egyptians, Assyrians, and Greeks all executed citizens for a variety of crimes. The most famous people to be executed are Socrates and Jesus. Only in England, during the reigns of King Canute (1016-1035) and William the Conqueror (1066-1087) was the death penalty not used, although the results of interrogation and torture were often fatal ...
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