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The Nicomachean ethics of Aristotle - Google Books - 0 views

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- Amy Barrett on 20 Oct 09
  
  "If then in what we do there be some end which we wish for... this evidently will be the good or the best of all things." Aristotle could be discussing an optimistic view of an afterlife like his teacher Plato.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"If then in what we do there be some end which we wish for... this evidently will be the good or the best of all things." Aristotle could be discussing an optimistic view of an afterlife like his teacher Plato. </div>
  
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- Amy Barrett on 20 Oct 09
  
  "...it much concerns us to know this good; for then... we shall be more likely to attain what we want." Aristotle indicates ethics, the common goal of people to do what is right, is an attempt to reach a desired afterlife. The Greek community possibly believed that by doing good works made for a better afterlife.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"...it much concerns us to know this good; for then... we shall be more likely to attain what we want." Aristotle indicates ethics, the common goal of people to do what is right, is an attempt to reach a desired afterlife. The Greek community possibly believed that by doing good works made for a better afterlife.</div>
  
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- Amy Barrett on 21 Oct 09
  
  "There is a similar uncertainty also about what is good, because good things often do people harm..." This idea of ambiguousness between right and wrong is similar to what Socrates said about pleasure and pain being closely related. Perhaps Plato used this idea from Socrates to teach his student.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"There is a similar uncertainty also about what is good, because good things often do people harm..." This idea of ambiguousness between right and wrong is similar to what Socrates said about pleasure and pain being closely related. Perhaps Plato used this idea from Socrates to teach his student.</div>
  
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Phaedo by Plato - 0 views

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  "...there is no greater pleasure than to have Socrates brought to my recollection..." Plato honored his teacher's life and ideas, which he used to form his own philosophies.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"...there is no greater pleasure than to have Socrates brought to my recollection..." Plato honored his teacher's life and ideas, which he used to form his own philosophies.</div>
  
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- Amy Barrett on 20 Oct 09
  
  "I thought that in going to the other world he [Socrates] could not be without a divine call, and that he would be happy...when he arrived there..." Plato had an optimistic view of an afterlife and believed those who died received a divine call which permitted them to enter honored afterlife.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"I thought that in going to the other world he [Socrates] could not be without a divine call, and that he would be happy...when he arrived there..." Plato had an optimistic view of an afterlife and believed those who died received a divine call which permitted them to enter honored afterlife.</div>
  
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- Amy Barrett on 20 Oct 09
  
  "'For the Eleven,' he [the jailer] said, 'are now with Socrates; they are taking off his chains, and giving orders that he is to die to-day.'" Socrates' followers waited until the jail opened in the morning to speak philosophy with him. Perhaps the Eleven are the persecutors.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"'For the Eleven,' he [the jailer] said, 'are now with Socrates; they are taking off his chains, and giving orders that he is to die to-day.'" Socrates' followers waited until the jail opened in the morning to speak philosophy with him. Perhaps the Eleven are the persecutors.</div>
  
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- Amy Barrett on 20 Oct 09
  
  "...I have good hope that there is yet something remaining for the dead... some far better thing for the good than for the evil." Plato's belief of an afterlife branches off of his teacher's idea that good works earn a good afterlife.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"...I have good hope that there is yet something remaining for the dead... some far better thing for the good than for the evil." Plato's belief of an afterlife branches off of his teacher's idea that good works earn a good afterlife.</div>
  
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- Amy Barrett on 20 Oct 09
  
  "... a true philosopher has reason to be of good cheer when he is about to die... after death he may hope to receive the greatest good in the other world." Plato thought like Socrates that those with great knowledge and ideas in the Axial Age, maybe those thinkers who agreed with Socrates' philosophy, had the most esteemed placement in the afterlife.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"... a true philosopher has reason to be of good cheer when he is about to die... after death he may hope to receive the greatest good in the other world." Plato thought like Socrates that those with great knowledge and ideas in the Axial Age, maybe those thinkers who agreed with Socrates' philosophy, had the most esteemed placement in the afterlife.</div>
  
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Assyrian Army - 4 views

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Picture of an Assyrian Army

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Life and society in the Hittite world - Google Books - 3 views

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- Amy Barrett on 29 Sep 09
  
  The Hittite Kingdom had storehouses, cities, and armies that were nearly equal to the Ancient River Valley Civilizations. Hittites were a powerful and respected group of their time since other groups of significant power respected them.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">The Hittite Kingdom had storehouses, cities, and armies that were nearly equal to the Ancient River Valley Civilizations. Hittites were a powerful and respected group of their time since other groups of significant power respected them.</div>
  
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- Amy Barrett on 29 Sep 09
  
  Trade created social power, relationships which created new power and reinforced old systems of power, culture and prosperity in money for the Hittites and those with whom they traded.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Trade created social power, relationships which created new power and reinforced old systems of power, culture and prosperity in money for the Hittites and those with whom they traded.</div>
  
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- Amy Barrett on 29 Sep 09
  
  Hittite kings were in control over the miliary and justice systems. They also controlled communications with the gods. The Hittites considered the king an assistant to the sun god on Earth.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Hittite kings were in control over the miliary and justice systems. They also controlled communications with the gods. The Hittites considered the king an assistant to the sun god on Earth.</div>
  
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Trade created new relationships of power, reinforced old relationships of power, distributed culture and made economic prosperity for the Hittite kingdom and those with whom it traded.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Trade created new relationships of power, reinforced old relationships of power, distributed culture and made economic prosperity for the Hittite kingdom and those with whom it traded.</div>

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Amy Barrett on 29 Sep 09

How did the Hittite kingdom become a regional power during the Last Bronze Age (1700-1200 BC)?

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">How did the Hittite kingdom become a regional power during the Last Bronze Age (1700-1200 BC)?</div>

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