While Machiavelli and Plato had different holistic views on what virtuous traits were, the foundation of all the traits they considered to be virtuous was knowledge. In Machiavelli’s The Prince, a prince with virtuous traits had to know how to execute a plan, know when to commit vices and appear liberal but truly be frugal. While all these traits were different, the prerequisite for a prince to possess or develop these traits was knowledge. Similarly, in Plato’s The Republic, Socrates states that a perfect city’s four virtues would be wisdom, courage, moderation and justice. While these traits are all different from what Machiavelli considered virtuous and are all different from one another, they all require a certain level of knowledge to be put in practice. As a result, in this paper, I argue that virtue, at its most fundamental pillar is knowledge.
Throughout chapter six of The Prince, Machiavelli explores the role that virtue plays in the lives of great leaders like Moses, Cyrus, Romulus, and Theseus and equates their virtue to their ability to execute. Machiavelli praises men like Cyrus and Romulus because they were able to rise to power not by the crutch of fortune, but by their own virtue. Here, we find our first example why knowledge is virtue to Machiavelli as he claims that while Moses was only an executor of God’s will, he needed the virtue of spirit to do so (Machiavelli 23). Much of the same is true when Machiavelli describes the success of Cyrus and others who have acquired or founded kingdoms. Machiavelli claims that people like Cyrus and Moses had nothing from fortune, but opportunity and that their ability to execute plans that were necessary for utilizing that opportunity took virtue (Machiavelli 23). Put succinc...
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...ion, it is clear that while Machiavelli and Plato had different holistic views on what virtuous traits were, the foundation of all the traits they considered to be virtuous was knowledge. In Machiavelli’s The Prince, a prince with virtuous traits had to know how to execute a plan, know when to commit vices and appear liberal but truly be frugal. While all these traits were different the prerequisite for a prince to possess or develop these traits was knowledge. Similarly, in Plato’s The Republic, Socrates states that a perfect city’s four virtues would be wisdom, courage, moderation and justice. While these traits are all different from what Machiavelli considered virtuous and are all different from one another, they all require a certain level of knowledge to be put in practice. As a result, it becomes clear that virtue, at its most fundamental pillar is knowledge.
There are different types of essay writing including descriptive, illustrative, compare and contrast, persuasive and cause an effect. The main idea of the essay, or the thesis, is presented in the first paragraph. The thesis of this essay is how to use the writing process to effectively apply composition techniques including wriing the thesis statement, using topic sentences, transitiions, details, and proper conventions to elaborate your ideas using voice, word choice, sentence fluency and organization
jobs they would have no income and could be living on the streets. Overall the two essays “No Sweat” and “Low Wage Strong Backs” discusses low wage workers and they talk about working conditions, one focus on both positive and negative effects of low wage work while the other focuses only on the negative effects. The two essays No Sweat and Low Wage Strong Backs talks about workers who get low wages. In the essay No Sweat, “In Uzbekistan, thousands of children must pick 10 to 40 kg of cotton per
from my own memories that the essays reminded me of. My writing skills at the beginning of the semester was, at an elementary level, but now that I’ve had practice. I’m beginning to flourish with talents that come alive at the tap of key. As I looked over the essays I wrote, I am able to see the clumsy mistakes I made along the way. Now, in the future I can avoid being picked out of the crowd as the amateur writer. The following papers in this portfolio is of the essays I did in Comp I class. The papers
writer is grammar. I tend to misuse commas a lot, which on my essays were labeled “comma splices.” In the first few essays that I wrote, I had a few of these comma splices. For example in my summary essay I wrote, “Julie spent two years in Indonesia studying and performing, she had become one of the family in the village where she stayed.” That comma should not have been put there. I had the same comma splice problem in my critique essay. I wrote, “She partook in an experimental problem that only made
Multicultural Anthology,” by Suzanne Kelly, has many impactful essays, poems, and stories. The essay which I found to be the signal most impactful essay is entitled “ Fence Sitters, Switch Hitters, and Bi-Bi Girls: An Exploration of Hapa and Bisexual Identities,” by Beverly Yuen Thompson. Thompson, a biracial woman of Asian and Anglo heritage wrote this essay in 2000. In the essay Thompson addresses several aspects of her identity but the part of the essay that affected me the most was her explanation of what
This compare and contrast essay is over two versions of “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street”. The two versions of the story that will be compared in this essay are the teleplay and the short story. The essay will include similarities and differences regarding the plot, how the teleplay construction differs from the short story, the differences between the two genres and how they affect the reader, and my opinion of which genre I prefered and why. First off, we have some similarities of the two
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Although I am not the best writer, I have come a long way and improved immensely from my first essay “Where is the Line Drawn?” at the beginning of the semester to my last essay “Differences” towards the end of the semester. If it was possible I would have loved to compare my very first essay from semester 1 to my last essay in semester 2 to show the extraordinary change and my writing journey. Throughout the entire 2nd semester I have acquired some new writing, reading and analytical skills. Some
check did not catch it. The same can be said of other grammar and punctuation issues. One essay that really helped me improve my writing was the personal essay, where we interviewed someone in the profession we wanted to go into. I chose a teacher from high school that had encouraged me to teach. For this essay, we had to interview the teacher and then write about it. I was nervous about writing this essay, because I had never done anything like this before. I was not sure what questions to ask or
within each of the essays I have written, but additionally have become more engaged in critical thinking and collaborative work. Within the syllabus, we were given concepts that we ,as students, needed to meet by the end of the course. I have met the student learning outcomes throughout this course as shown through all three essays. The first student outcome stated that “Students will be able to use rhetorical terminology to describe writing.” For example, for our first essay we were assigned, we
My RIP companion essay was a complete mess with no structure in the first draft. I believe it was because I had procrastinated to complete both the first drafts for the RIP project and essay. I finished my RIP project then moved on to my companion essay, and the transition was vastly different because in the RIP project I was writing for a different audience than in the companion essay, which was an academic audience. In addition, I forgot that we had been given a prompt with specific instructions
once stated “To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” During my time here at English 180 I saw some improvement in my writing in terms of content. I feel as if I am more capable of writing an essay with better content than I was able to do back in High School. My essays have shown improvement because I did change my style of writing a bit and I added something different every time I wrote a paper. In English 180 we wrote several papers, but each one had a change to fit the certain
Tips To Write Exceptional Reflective Essay Reflective essay composing is the reflection of your own genuine experience. Composing a reflective essay is actually an all the more difficult employment as contrasted and different types of scholastic written work. The reason is that reflective essays require inventive deduction aptitudes through you expound on your own accomplishments, stresses or disappointments. When you keep in touch with this paper, you should remain once more from the circumstance
Life goes on How can a student write a perfect personal essay? Personal essay should have five paragraphs including introduction and conclusion. It also knows as three body paragraphs essay because personal essay generally have only three-body paragraph. It will be good to have same words count in all five paragraphs. Reader may or may not get full idea about the essay in the introduction. Essay should not be too long or too short and should be focus on the main point of view. My theme is about
Every good baker understands in order to make a mouthwatering cake a spectacular recipe is needed. The same proves to be true in writing an effective essay. Without experimentation, the right mixture of ingredients and baking time neither a successful cake nor essay can be produced. It takes practice and repetition before settling on the necessary tools required for a recipe. During my time spent in WRD 104 I gained the necessary ingredients needed to prepare my own formula for crafting a flawless