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As per Platonic epistemology, the idea of Goodness is innate and it is buried deep in our souls.... For Epicurus, a worthy life denotes that one is essentially 'good' in nature, self-sufficient and enjoys a happy and tranquil life.... But it is the quality of the relationships that we build up in our life time that makes us worthy, be it family, friends or colleagues.... In order to feel ourselves worthy of our lives, we need to achieve happiness....
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Assignment
On one hand, Wells argued that a Utopian society would not engage in capital punishment, but in the same breath assumed that those deemed not worthy of life would be deprived of it in order to maintain a truly Utopian integrity.... The Country of the Blind is, for Wells, an interesting take on the concept of Utopia, an idea that held a great deal of interest for him....
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Essay
he most obvious distinction between the approach of Freud and that of Descartes to the idea of dreaming is the amount of respect each one seems to have for it.... Descartes profound distrust of dreams, then, lies in the idea that dreaming obscures our reason, which is our only means of being in contact with God (and so with truth); Freud, on the other hand, places much more faith in dreams as a way of acquiring knowledge.... Freud sees the study of dreaming as a means of increasing our understanding and knowledge about the human mind, a subject in fact worthy of a whole book....
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Book Report/Review
In the following essay 'Who Is the hero of Antigone?... the author decides between Antigone and Creon as the hero of the play.... In this respect, his actions fit a hero's, since he does not do it for personal gain but for what he believes is the greater good.... This, I believe, is an important part of determining what strength of character is, and thus one of the parts that make a hero.... It is a very subtle off-spin to the definition of strength and courage, which Antigone is more obviously representative of, but nonetheless a vital part of a hero; the ability to recognize his errors and try to make up for them....
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Book Report/Review
In the medieval period, the idea of virtue found a formal codification in the expression of a set of specific deeds known as chivalry.... Particularly, in contrasting the idea of chivalry between Chaucer and Spenser, the very natures of the men cause the simple definition to take on a much more complex expression.... He forms his description of the knight as a 'worthy man, that 'from the time that he first began to ride out, he loved chivalry, trou the and honor, freedom, and curteisie' (Chaucer, 1974, p....
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Book Report/Review
the idea is one that highlights the belief that leaders are born, though the natural skills can be honed.... Close attention to the texts of both works give the idea, of an underlying unity, though they do represent differing (i.... One of the major themes of Plato's "The Philosopher Ruler" in the work The Republic is the belief in ideal characteristics that make up the truest ruler and an idea that there are such persons who are naturally inclined to these qualities deemed indispensable to being a ruler....
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Essay
This paper "How Carroll's Alice Deconstructs the Victorian Notions of Femininity" discusses Carroll's Alice that deconstructs the Victorian notions of femininity and female coming of age in several ways.... Rather than being a charming female heroine, Alice is bossy and often downright unlikeable....
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Case Study
The paper "Valuing Ones Otherness: hero as the Marginalized" discusses that generally, a hero may not be the most popular person who contributes to everyone in society.... Such a definition of a hero ignores the injustice embedded in the social structure.... They alter the definition of a hero as someone who is confident about their self-worth even though social injustice marginalizes them as the Others....
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Essay