17 résultats pour "happiness"
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Kilogram
This web site will help me with my research project because it allows me to understand all these different ways of finding happiness. Explains multiple different ways on finding happiness such as balancing money and happiness, also having happiness with the people around you. 4. http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1015832,00.html “The New Science of Happiness” By: Claudia Wallis Published: January 9 th 2005 This article explains to us the science behind happiness. It e...
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How to live a good life according to aristotle and kant
Similarities and differences between them Kant and Aristotle: Kant and Aristotle both agree that for someone to be virtuous they must have good external conditions and that the state/government can help them achieve that and what separates human beings from animals is our capacity to reason. The difference is the way they achieve virtue for Kant it is trough learning the categorical imperative and acting upon it and for Aristotle it is by learning the 2 kinds of knowledge scientific knowledge...
- Do you think having a simple vision of life contributes to happiness?
- The Sound of Music The Sound of Music, motion picture about a religious young governess who brings music and happiness to a widower's large family, set in Austria during World War II (1939-1945).
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Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Ailly, Pierre d'
empirical facts rather than metaphysical assumptions. Thus, it is not by chance that two of d'Ailly's favourite phrases in his philosophical writings are docet experientia (experience teaches) and patet inductive (this is clear on the basis of induction). His main sources are William of Ockham , Thomas Bradwardine , Gregory of Rimini and John Buridan , among whom Ockham is clearly the foremost authority: ‘a few things said by him I value more highly than many volumes by certain others...
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Baudelaire- Le public moderne et la photographie
Je vous demande pardon de m'être diverti quelques instants à la manière des petits journaux. Mais, quelque frivole que vous paraisse la matière, vous y trouverez cependant, en l'examinant bien, un symptôme déplorable. Pour me résumer d'une manière paradoxale, je vous demanderai, à vous et à ceux de mes amis qui sont plus instruits que moi dans l'histoire de l'art, si le goût du bête, le goût du spirituel (qui est la même chose) ont exi...
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english history
He was a Scottish moral philosopher and a pioneer of political economics. Smith studied social philosophy at the University of Glasgow and the University of Oxford. Smith obtained a professorship at Glasgow teaching moral philosophy. Smith returned home and spent the ten years writing The Wealth of Nations , publishing it in 1776. He became famous for this book, which had a profound influence on modern economics and concepts of individual free...
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HISTOIRE DE KEYNE BRITISH
He was a Scottish moral philosopher and a pioneer of political economics. Smith studied social philosophy at the University of Glasgow and the University of Oxford. Smith obtained a professorship at Glasgow teaching moral philosophy. Smith returned home and spent the ten years writing The Wealth of Nations , publishing it in 1776. He became famous for this book, which had a profound influence on modern economics and concepts of individual free...
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I understood him.
HAPPINESS, HAPPINESS INTERVIEWER. Canyoudescribe theevents ofthat morning? TOMOYASU. Ileft home withmydaughter, Masako.Shewas onher way towork. Iwas going tosee afriend. Anair-raid warning wasissued. Itold Masako Iwas going home. Shesaid, "I'mgoing tothe office." Idid chores andwaited forthe warning tobe lifted. I folded thebedding. Irearranged thecloset. Icleaned thewindows withawet rag. There wasaflash. Myfirst thought was that itwas theflash from acamera. Thatsounds soridiculous now.Itpierc...
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Excerpt from Much Ado About Nothing - anthology.
BEATRICE. Alas, he gets nothing by that. In our last conflict four of his five wits went halting off, and now is the whole man governed with one; so that if he havewit enough to keep himself warm, let him bear it for a difference between himself and his horse; for it is all the wealth that he hath left, to be known a reasonablecreature. Who is his companion now? He hath every month a new sworn brother. MESSENGER. Is't possible? BEATRICE. Very easily possible: he wears his faith but as the fashio...
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Aristotle
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Aristotle (384-322
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Greek philosopher and scientist, who shares with Plato and Socrates the distinction of being the most famous of ancient philosophers.
succession of individuals. These processes are therefore intermediate between the changeless circles of the heavens and the simple linear movements of the terrestrialelements. The species form a scale from simple (worms and flies at the bottom) to complex (human beings at the top), but evolution is not possible. C Aristotelian Psychology For Aristotle, psychology was a study of the soul. Insisting that form (the essence, or unchanging characteristic element in an object) and matter (the commonu...
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Aristotle.
succession of individuals. These processes are therefore intermediate between the changeless circles of the heavens and the simple linear movements of the terrestrialelements. The species form a scale from simple (worms and flies at the bottom) to complex (human beings at the top), but evolution is not possible. C Aristotelian Psychology For Aristotle, psychology was a study of the soul. Insisting that form (the essence, or unchanging characteristic element in an object) and matter (the commonu...
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Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Aquinas' Moral Philosophy
From remarks such as this Aquinas' followers developed the famous doctrine of double effect. If an act, not evil initself, has both good and bad effects, then it may be permissible if (1) the evil effect is not intended, and (2) thegood effect is not produced by means of the bad, and (3) on balance, the good done outweighs the harm. Thereare many everyday applications of the principle of double effect: e.g. there is nothing wrong with appointing thebest person to a job, though you know that by d...
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Averroism
approach to philosophical problems, even though this must lead to conflict with Christian faith; and third, the current led by Albert the Great and Aquinas, who produced a synthesis of Aristotle and Christian faith (see Aristotelianism, medieval ). Early in the twentieth century, it was commonly assumed by historians that almost all the 219 theses condemned in 1277 were of Averroist provenance, and since there is medieval evidence that the main targets of the condemnation were Boethius of Daci...
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Western Philosophy.
the popular belief in personal deities, but he failed to explain the way in which the familiar objects of experience could develop out of elements that are totally differentfrom them. Anaxagoras therefore suggested that all things are composed of very small particles, or “seeds,” which exist in infinite variety. To explain the way in whichthese particles combine to form the objects that constitute the familiar world, Anaxagoras developed a theory of cosmic evolution. He maintained that the activ...
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American Literature: Poetry
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Phyllis McGinley
American poet and author Phyllis McGinley composed light, witty verse, much of which deals with family life.
Taylor, a poet of great technical skill, wrote powerful meditative poems in which he tested himself morally and sought to identify and root out sinful tendencies. In“God's Determinations Touching His Elect” (written 1680?), one of Taylor’s most important works, he celebrates God's power in the triumph of good over evil in thehuman soul. All of Taylor’s poetry and much of Bradstreet’s served generally personal ends, and their audience often consisted of themselves and their family andclosest frie...