... by being virtuous one could reach the highest good. In this case the highest good is happiness. Happiness was something that Aristotle believed was done within and when you’re full of happiness within, that happiness shines outward and therefore bettering society. Immanuel Kant, a Western philosopher had many interesting ideas on ethics. Kant believed that by acting rationally, we could achieve a high standard for universal morality. Kant’s reasoning was that reason is the basis for morality, and it can only be found by starting from reason. Kant’s main point was the categorical imperative. This was his way of describing that humans lack any insight into the mora ...

... Writers). The Gothic period preceding the Elizabethan age was based very much on religion. Secular buildings, sculpture, stained glass, illuminated manuscripts, and other decorative arts were produced in Europe during the latter part of the Middle Ages. Since then the term Gothic has been restricted to the last major medieval period, immediately following the Romanesque (Gothic Period). The Renaissance, following the Elizabethan age was a rebirth of scholarly interests. It was based on the classics of art, religion, science and inventions, philosophy, and humanism (Renaissance). Queen Elizabeth I was a powerful political figure in English history. Her ...

... not only technical self-government but also self-reliance. After World War I, in which he played an active part in recruiting campaigns, he launched his movement of passive resistance to Great Britain. When the Britain government failed to make amends, Gandhi established an organized campaign of noncooperation. Through India, streets were blocked by squatting Indians who refused to rise even when beaten by the police. He declared he would go to jail even die before obeying anti-Asian Law. Gandhi was arrested, but the British were soon forced to release him. Economic independence for India, involving the complete boycott of British goods, was made a resul ...

... and several kerosene lanterns. There were bears and wolves and moose and loons" (qtd. in "Author Profile"). Because she live in the forest eight months of the year Atwood would entertain herself with books. They became her only means for entertainment and escape. "I read them all, even when they weren't supposed to be for children" (qtd. in "Author Profile"). One of her favorite books as a child was Grimm's Fairy Tales, "the unexpurgated version¾ the one with the red hot shoes." During this childhood of reading, Atwood also began to write. By the age of six, Atwood was writing "poems, morality plays, comic books, and an unfinished novel about an ant" (qtd. in ...

... two years old when his father left. He had an older brother and a younger sister for whom Fanny Garrison was left alone to raise and to support. (Archer 12) Money was scarce and hard to come by in the Garrison home. At one point in William's young life his mother gave him a tin pail and told him to go ask for scraps of food at the back doors of mansions on High Street. (Faber 15) William was humiliated and teased by other children. He didn't feel shamed in being poor but felt a wealth in shame that he did not have a father. He knew that someday he would make his mark and show everyone that he was someone. Eventually William's mother decided she couldn't keep t ...

... large number of people, make up the army and the police and are called the “Auxiliaries”. The best and Brightest, a very small and rarefied group, are those who are in complete control of the state permanently; Plato calls these people “Guardians” in all things and the Producers obey the Auxiliaries and Guardians in all things. A state may be said to be intemperate if any of the lower groups do not obey one of the higher groups. A state may be said to be just if the Auxiliaries do not simply obey the guardians, but enjoy doing so, that is, they don’t grumble about the authority being exercised over them; a state with “ordinary justice” would require that the P ...

... wrote now laws and appointed no high officials, yet the self-knowledge and profound humility that invested her regard for every human being has made the story of her life a morality play that brightens the American memory. "There is no human being," wrote in one of her several columns that she frequently wrote for newspaper, from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep." This basic sense fo kinship with which she approaced the world dictated her vocation of helpfulness. The honesty with whcihc she told us of hte long path she travelded to free herself of fear and prejudice and become an independent person has placed her in that specai ...

... status, power and military to reform the world but his own might and that force of spirit to make this place a better world. One who displays the courage and conviction to stand for his beliefs. In short, he/she could be called the guiding light for peace in this world. Gandhi’s concept of nonviolent resistance liberated one nation and sped the end of colonial empires around the world. His marches and fasts fired the imagination of oppressed people everywhere. Millions sought freedom and justice under Mahatma’s guiding light. He proclaimed the power of love, peace and freedom. He fought for the rights of the Indians, for their freedom from the British. His princi ...

... good, only a step towards it. A man, by being good achieves happiness, which is the chief good of man. also says that happiness can be another name for good though. He states, "...happiness is the fulfillment of our distinctive function...". So it can be concluded that a lifestyle of good leads to man's ultimate goal of happiness. In other instances, states that the principle of being good is embedded in everyone. It is man's nature to have the knowledge of good and evil. He gives no mention to any biblical reference. In the matter of badness, states that for most bad things, it is the nature of it that implies badness; not the defiance of bad things tha ...

... deals with the criticism of the wealthy French lifestyle. The book is about two Persian’s who take a trip to Paris. Montesquieu ridicules the two people throughout the book. Montesquieu strongly disliked despotism. Despotism is a government run by a tyrant. In another book, Spirit Of The Laws, he uses despotism to tell about how the different governments get corrupt. He believed that the only reason a despotism starts is because of a corruption in a republican or monarchy government. Montesquieu believed that all things were made up of rules or laws that never changed. He set out to study these laws with the hope that knowledge of the laws of govern ...