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Samara Siewers: Virtue is any Social behavior that conveys a survival advantage on the Group. Like Loyalty. The advantage is that Loyal people make better more effective soldiers. Your chance of winning is better if someone has your back. The disadvantage is virtuous behavior towards the non virtuous. If you give your time, energy & personal risk to protect your countryman & they do not return the favor. Then you are 'paying' for a Social benefit you do not receive. The un-virtuous receive a benefit they do not pay for....Show more

Lorelei Lilburn: The answers will be found in Plato and Aquinas.

Bell Pasco: The only real impact is to have diluted the faculty of reason. The theologian/philosopher Boethius said, "In so far as is possible, join faith to reason." This gave faith false legs, because William of Ockham, a Franciscan, said there is no theological argument for, nor scientific proof of, God's existence, that belief in God must be entirely on faith. He i! s one of the few theologians to use reason to knock those false legs out from under the believers who wanted to have "logic" backing them up.To know what the philosophy of Christianity was, and what its roots are, go to the library and get the book "Cosmology in the Ancient Christian Tradition."Then, remember this: philosophy had more impact on Christianity than the other way around. When Augustine wove Plato into Christian thinking, it plunged us into 1000+ years of the Dark Ages. When Thomas Aquinas wove Aristotle into Christian thinking, it started the Enlightenment and then the Renaissance....Show more

Francis Stickle: The Greeks, of course, wrote much in the area of philosophy, but non more than Plato. His dialogues influneced a multitude of societies. His student, perhaps a greater philosopher than himself was Aristotle. Aristotle took Plato's philosophy, critqued much of it and then expanded his own ideas through it. His was much more studious than Plato it wou! ld seem, and interested in far more subjects, including: biolo! gy, astronomy, physics, mathematics, pyschology, and of course the subsequent branches of philosophy. Plato's philosophy would be exanded by a man named PLotinus later on through history. Plotinus is known as the father of neo-platonism. Plotinus influenced one of the greatest, most influential Christian thinkers in history: St. Augustine. St. Augustine took Plato's philosophy and made it compatible with Christian doctine. Later, St. Thomas Aquinas, in the middle ages, would recognize some problems this would have towards the Christian doctrine and then reconcile Aristotelianism with Christian doctrine. Aristotelianism and PLatonism had had the most profound affects on Christianity in history. Some of the early church fathers, such as Origin, became too involved with Platonic notions of things and became confused in his thinking and attempts to reconcile Christian doctrine with Platonism. Much like PLato, he believed in the eternal soul, and would create the "pre-existence"! view of the soul. A soule existing before it's own existence. We, all thought we don't remember, willfully chose to become a aprt of the world, equipped with a body, the vessel of our true nature, the soul. Here we see Platonic dualism in human nature. ANyways, just look up those three guys (Origin, Augustine, and Aquinas) and you will find enough information to pass, I'm sure....Show more