Essays 541 - 570
Although biblical, the story provides a warning in that perhaps a little knowledge can be harmful. Another point of view is that k...
background, the points which Gray (2001) makes are surprising to say the least. Gray (2001) sees the war we as a society are wagi...
They are, instead, robot-like in that they do what they are told and do not question the validity of the teachings. Instead, peopl...
In six pages this paper analyzes the contention of Socrates that an 'unexamined life is not worth living' as this view is represen...
ghost, a phantom-true, but no real breath of life" (23.122-23). This minimal survival apparently depends on the appropriate funera...
if they were not a part of society then it would be obvious that God did not exist. In relationship to what other philosophers fro...
could be products of society, but never the causes, or it would alter the objectivity of sociology as a science (Hamilton, 1995). ...
why so many people had to suffer. No matter the cause, the gods were not looked on with the reverence they had once enjoyed, and t...
and is not open to the charge of flattery" (Plato). While Socrates then discusses the love of youth, possibly referring to having ...
Kamath (2007) goes through all the possible outcomes regarding this dilemma. He explains that if the operation goes forth, there a...
ethical theory that supports killing off twice as many people to save half as many because you like them better. That is unethica...
always do the good" and, therefore, is someone goes astray, it is because they lack the knowledge of how to "act rightly" (Shiraev...
individuality and happiness are intrinsically related, as the achievement of personal happiness is associated with obtaining the i...
wish, they have other freedoms that are perhaps not as obvious. Brave New World supports the hedonistic view. That is, Huxley (199...
The writer discusses the moral and ethical positions of several philosophers including Ayer, Smith, Mackie, Socrates and Glaucon. ...
millennia worth of philosophical comprehension of mans existence. For those who depend upon traditional practice to shepherd them...
of fire (The New York Times, 2008). He lived during the late fifth century BC (The New York Times, 2008). The Eleatic school for i...
student sees in relationship to what the image can present: "but of the ideas which they resemble; not of the figures which they d...
the soul. What the mind or soul once knew is raised to present awareness by a process of recollection aided by the technique of di...
own life? Not all philosophers would agree with the path he ultimately chose. First, it is important to keep in mind that practi...
that love is beautiful and love is a god by showing them the true nature of love and the use love can be to humankind....
classes in the State severally did their own business; and also thought to be temperate and valiant and wise by reason of certain ...
for Plato and are directly related to that capacity of understanding. Physical things of the world must, of necessity, have bodily...
support for the notion that people must obey the laws of the place in which they are born. How is this accomplished? Aristotle d...
to shake off these social controls and become the master rather than the slave. This, he argues, is the true justice of nature: la...
(2002) argument is based on his experiences as first a federal prosecutor, then a trial judge, and finally a California Superior C...
perception is that which we, as humans, have been trained to discern as a species, inasmuch as the certain quality of perception r...
has many flaws. There is question as to whether or not the method really gets to the truth at all. In fact, one has to wonder whet...
knew nothing and was far from wise, he sets upon a course of action to find someone wiser than himself to offer to the Oracle as r...
the harp is broken the music stops; if the human dies, doesnt the soul also vanish? (Plato). It is to answer these concerns and ar...