Essays on Aristotle

There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained. My family and I are very family oriented. We disagree on some things but on others we agree and our beliefs is one of them….

Abstract             Peter Singer has become well known for his protection of animal rights’ equality. On the contrary, Aristotle was viewing animals merely as the source of food and other products, as well as being inferior to men. The work will be aimed at discussing both viewpoints. Criticism of Peter Singer’s Theory of Animal Rights…

What are Aristotle’s 3 unities?  Define each.  How does each show up in Medea?  The 3 unities of Aristotle are the three factors that he claims in his treatise of Poetics as to the rules to create true drama.   These 3 factors are the unity of action, which necessitates that the drama should have one…

Although we grant the truth or falsity of propositions about past and present events, proposition about the future seem problematic. If a proposition about tomorrow is true or false today, then the futur event it describes will happen or not happen necessarily; but if such a proposition is neither true nor false then there is…

INTRODUCTION Happiness is a very relative term in the sense it is an expression arising from different occurrence by totally different and furthermore in a different environment. You can imagine the feeling of Kofi Annan when he was inaugurated in as the Secretary general of the United nations, the feelings of a student at a…

In Aristotle’s Politics, he focuses much on the regimes of an oligarchy and of democracy. Democracies exist when the free and poor, being a majority, have the authority to rule, and have an equal share in the city. Oligarchies exist when the few wealthy and better born have authority and grant benefits in proportion to…

Within The Republic, Plato states that tyranny is “the most diseased” kind of society (Republic, 544c). Aristotle echoes this belief when he boldly asserts within Politics that great honours should be “bestowed… on him who kills a tyrant.” (Politics, 1267a15) From these quotes alone, it is clear that both share a disdain for tyranny. This…

Prompt: Explain Aristotle’s discussion of the “function of a human being” in Book 1 Chapter 7 relates to his view that the virtues are means between extremes. To start off the discussion, one must take into account that “the function of man is an activity of soul which follows or implies a rational principle” (Book…

Throughout history, people have searched for knowledge of the good, and have attempted to clarify what is meant when referring to this. Enquiries after a true concept of the good are made so that it is possible for moral frameworks to be built upon them. Interpretations of the good affect views, approaches to morality and…

Aristotle and Descartes on Human Person Descartes Meditations begun by attempting to doubt everything then moved on to build up from that to those few things which we can know with certainty. These mediations were written during the time when the recognized sciences were Aristotelian; therefore, it implies that the philosophy of science that prevailed…