Essays about: "Aristoteles"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the word Aristoteles.
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1. Aristotle and Romantic Love : A Study of Romantic Love and If It Can Be Part of Aristotle's Eudaimonia
University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och samhälleAbstract : This essay will research aspects of romantic love, as well as aspects of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. The purpose of the essay is to discuss if romantic love can be part of virtue ethics and eudaimonia. The philosopher Raja Halwani presents two concepts of romantic love that are relevant to the discussion. READ MORE
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2. On how we acquire knowledge of first principles (archai) in Aristotle : A defense of intuition (nous) understood as integral to induction (epagoge)
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Avdelningen för teoretisk filosofiAbstract : In this essay I consider from various perspectives the question of whether, for Aristotle, intuition (nous) is part of the process of induction (epagoge) helping to reach the first principles (archai) or whether nous is rather a state of knowing first brought about through a successful induction alone. I have argued we should be careful of drawing conclusions about the nature of the involvement of nous in the grasping of first principles on the basis of APo alone. READ MORE
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3. Social Media and the Virtues : Could social media be an obstacle to an individual’s ultimate happiness?
University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudierAbstract : The work is a theory application thesis specifically applying Aristotle’s virtue ethicsto evaluate and discuss the potential implications that social media pose on the individual’s potential to achieve happiness as it is understood through the virtue ethics. It includes a close discussion of the virtues temperance and friendship, as well as empirical studies on the subjectand critical discussion incorporating the Aristotelian theory. READ MORE
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4. The myth of the Red Line : an international relations analysis of the Obama administration’s argumentation for and against a military intervention in Syria
University essay from Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheterAbstract : This paper aims to examine the arguments proposed by the Obama administration regarding a U.S. military intervention in Syria due to the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian regime in 2013. READ MORE
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5. Trädgård för själen : en jämförelse mellan rehabiliteringsträdgårdarna Nynäs och Gröna Rehab
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural DevelopmentAbstract : Sedan tidernas begynnelse har naturen haft läkande effekter på människors välmående. Redan i gamla Grekland hade väletablerade filosofer som Aristoteles och Platon kännedom om naturens krafter. Denna kunskap har sedan dess haft en stor betydelse för behandlingsmetoder inom psykisk ohälsa. READ MORE