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Socrates
... without a father. He also says that he doesn't want to lose an old friend. Socrates refutes Crito's suggestion by saying in a general ... and disgrace. His sons would have to bear the name of a worthless father, and be disgraced for the rest of their lives. If ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy
Stoicism
... it an impediment to this interest, whether this be a brother, or a father, or a child, or beloved, or lover, it hates, spurns, ... thought although natural as a way of life is paved with extreme social difficulties. The Stoic even "loses" the glorification of ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy
Machiavelli's Philosophy.
... a young lawyer with a good family and a loving girlfriend to whom he was set to be married. One day, as he was neighboring with his father ... goes through with the wedding and loses his real love in the process. Alfredo made a big sacrifice. Although what he ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy
Boethius philosophy
... his torments he was killed with a club.1 Something of Boethius' and his father-in-law Symmachus' characters and ... own Latin-speaking and increasingly ill-trained contemporaries will soon lose access altogether to the philosophical legacy of ancient Greece. ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy
Edgar Allan Poe Life and Death
... is an aspiring poet, and his adopted father disapproves. He is secretly engaged to a girl named Elmira Royster by the time ... loses her. On his deathbed he regrets the decision to, "Create a kingdom in exchange for a broken heart". This is possibly a ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy
Discusses Confucius contributions in the humanities by explaining his concept of moral rectitude.
... father died when he was three years old and this probably had a huge impact on his family's class. The lose of his father ... Confucius' early influences are all contributing factors that made him a young and wise scholar during his time. Confucius concept of ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy
Friendship and Self-Love in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
... have been named after either his father or son, who were both named Nicomachus ... whatever success or material goods gained will lose their meaning. Moreover, nobody will ... human beings and even other creatures have a natural urge to affiliate. "Many animal ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy
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