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- 161: The Role of Entertainers as Educators
- ... by the chorus, and resolved in purely conventional--but always instructive--ways" (Burdick '8). Topical comedies reflected the heroic spirit, and problems facing Greek society during times of great change (Henderson "). Meanwhile, the dramas of Socrates spoke about ethical and moral change, while Demosthenes' speeches hardened Athenian opposition to Phillip of Macedon (Henderson "). Similarly, the Greek dramatist Aeschylus used his plays as a "forum for resolving moral conflicts and expressing a ...
- 162: Status of Women In Society
- ... Given women's inferior abilities, Aristotle maintained that the only appropriate role for women in society is one in which they are subordinate to the rule of strong, rational men. He agreed with Plato and Socrates that both sexes represented an important contribution to society, but stressed that the value of this contribution is very different for each sex, the difference being that "the moral virtue of a man is shown ...
- 163: The Role of Entertainers as Educators
- ... the chorus, and resolved in purely conventional--but always instructive--ways² (Burdick 18). Topical comedies reflected the heroic spirit, and problems facing Greek society during times of great change (Henderson 2). Meanwhile, the dramas of Socrates spoke about ethical and moral change, while Demosthenes¹ speeches hardened Athenian opposition to Phillip of Macedon (Henderson 2). Similarly, the Greek dramatist Aeschylus used his plays as a ³forum for resolving moral conflicts and expressing ...
- 164: Being Just or Unjust
- Being Just or Unjust Socrates' influential way of speaking allows for a central question to be answered: Is it more profitable to act justly and be just or to act unjustly and be unjust? The three parts of the soul ...
- 165: Ethical Values and The Classroom
- ... more than twenty-five to allow the time to attend to students in a personal manner. The more students per teacher, the less time there is for personal instruction. Jesus only had twelve students and Socrates only had a few. Teachers and respect, and spawn a desire to learn without fear of reprisal and reprimand. To further this personal approach teachers would be allowed the use of a full-time teacher ...
- 166: The Death Penalty
- ... accepted the idea of capital punishment for many crimes. Turkish law supports the idea of an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. The Greeks and Egyptians even executed citizens for many crimes. Socrates and Jesus are among some of the most famous people who were executed. Although the death penalty was widely accepted through out the United States, not everyone approved of it. In the late eighteenth century ...
- 167: Death Penalty
- ... 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 ...
- 168: Evil From Morals
- ... be one answer: evil exists because God allows it, and moral evil exists because God has given us freedom of choice. Evil has been looked at in many different ways throughout the years. Philosophers like Socrates and Plato believed evil was a matter of ignorance. Ancient Persians saw good and evil as two principles, "engaged in a perpetual struggle."(Collier) In reality, evil is merely the absence of good. "The essence ...
- 169: Existentialism in the Early 19th Century
- ... confronts the individual at every moment. History Existentialism as a distinct philosophical and literary movement belongs to the 19th and 20th centuries, but elements of existentialism can be found in the thought (and life) of Socrates, in the Bible, and in the work of many premodern philosophers and writers. Pascal The first to anticipate the major concerns of modern existentialism was the 17th-century French philosopher Blaise Pascal. Pascal rejected the ...
- 170: 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 ...
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