Essays 301 - 330
happiness may not be found during our earthly lifetimes, rather, it is in our eternal life that our happiness will be gained. In ...
audience" (66). The reversal refers to a reversal in fortune, which Aristotle believed was classically represented in a fall from...
life, white lies can protect people from hurt feelings. They can be used to motivate others to do good things. There are sometimes...
it" (Aristotle, 350 B.C.E., p. PG). Here he brings up the subject of lying, a principle in society that seems to be upheld. Certai...
law, and politics" (Anonymous, 2001). According to Aristotelian conjecture, those who compromise their political morality do so i...
too saw that the people needed leadership. The general public was thought not quite capable of making the big decisions. While Mac...
So for Plato, this idea extended into both personal and political ramifications. He reasoned that when an individual was doing th...
terms of a high human being, one may contend that it is the spiritual being--the priests, the rabbis, the ministers--who are reall...
In six pages this paper analyzes the contention of Socrates that an 'unexamined life is not worth living' as this view is represen...
interlocutor" which is consistent with the importance he places on self-knowledge as a way to attain good and happiness. Callicles...
Although biblical, the story provides a warning in that perhaps a little knowledge can be harmful. Another point of view is that k...
he means that this should apply to the average politician. Certainly, wisdom is seen as including morality. In terms of knowledge ...
profit than seeking knowledge. The schools headmaster was Socrates, and Strepsiades hopes that Phidippides will be able to apply ...
than our enemies, but inferior morally" and people must work to make themselves stronger in all respects (Plato, 1970, p. 45). ...
to the outside, the cave becomes a type of conduit, or birth canal which brings him into the life of actual knowledge. What one ca...
to be transcendent elements sent to teach important lessons turns out to be nothing more than images cast from puppets whose shado...
human being from conception to death is encapsulated in a pod. In Platos Cave the only thing that they can see is...
with sickness, or the pilot who helps friends against "the perils of the sea" (Plato Book I). He then inquires into "what sort of ...
reaching true conclusions and therefore may use their knowledge of language and logic to confuse the average person on the issues ...
between the citizens. Taken together, the guardians are people who are skilled in governing certain areas. However, these two type...
how ones intellect cannot be considered a gender. In other words, intelligence is intelligence regardless of where it is housed. ...
could be products of society, but never the causes, or it would alter the objectivity of sociology as a science (Hamilton, 1995). ...
so that his assets could be pro-created and he could be put to death. Will Socrates did refuse the request, he simply went home ra...
is no realistic political system, for it takes considerably more than one mans word to impart a true sense of unity. "Thus, for y...
that leads Socrates to the conclusion that he will not be exiled from his beloved home, but would rather die a martyr for his beli...
from the fact that I realized that I knew nothing. A man of my era named Chaerephon once asked the Oracle at Delphi is there w...
are afraid because ignorant, and perceive the pain and not the benefits; nor do they apprehend that a sick soul is worse than a si...
was that they were certain and immutable. Also, knowledge must have as its objective that which is genuinely real as compared to t...
then, accompanied by proof, it can therefore be called knowledge. He seems to move in circles a bit with this assertion, in that ...
Wisdom, and the Word of God. Therefore, intellectual knowledge is not the result of the gathering of data by the intellect, but a ...