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A 5 page research paper that relates ancient Greek philosophy, the thoughts of Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle, regarding virtue, and how this can be applied to the film Instinct(1999), starring Anthony Hopkins. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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scientist who lives with the gorillas of Rwanda. For some reason, Dr. Powell snaps that kills two men, as well as injuring others. He is first incarcerated in Africa and
then later extradited to the US where he is placed in a hospital for the criminally insane for evaluation. This task is given to a young therapist Theo Caulder who
is played by Cuba Gooding, Jr. Caulders encounters with Powell challenge his assumptions and worldview. It slowly comes out that Powell
attacked the men because they were poachers. Over the two years that Powell lived with the gorillas, he became accepted as one of them. The gorillas were, literally, his friends.
When they were attacked by poachers, his loyalties were with the gorillas rather than his own species. As this suggests, the film raises some interesting questions about what constitutes moral
behavior. The following discussion examines how the theories of virtue developed by Socrates, Plato and Aristotle might be applied to this scenario, and how their philosophies can shed light on
the moral issues the that movie raises. Socrates was certain that there had to be basic principles that governed what should be considered as "right" and "wrong" (Frost
84). However, Socrates is willing to concede that an individual can desire an evil thing if he mistakenly first evaluates it as good (Meno). He tells his friend, "...they desire
what they suppose to be good although they are really evil" (Frost 84). Therefore, the most significant activity for man is to discover what is good (Frost 84). For Socrates,
"a life which is always inquiring and trying to discover what is good is the best kind of life, the only life worth living" (Frost 84).
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