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top the list. The Catholic Church is often quoted as having said, "Give me a child until he is seven and he will always be Catholi...
things that are not concrete, but ideas. This type of thinking, the student could state, however, really puts a hold on empirical ...
(2002) argument is based on his experiences as first a federal prosecutor, then a trial judge, and finally a California Superior C...
wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves social needs. A number of philosophers have contributed to the debate which...
the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...
and ones existence. To reach true happiness, Plato contended that people must strive for a contentment that only comes from being...
for, but for which there were certainly problems. People too easily give up on it. In his work entitled The History of the Pelopon...
can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees it as symbolic of humans o...
subject of forms. While Plato held a dual realms theory, Aristotle saw form and matter as existing in the same realm. In discussi...
also believed in one realm. Spinoza writes: "By God, I mean a Being absolutely infinite -- that is, a substance consisting in inf...
that is permanent and immutable. It is this world that is more real; the world of change is merely an imperfect image of this worl...
of science there are two branches which are epistemology and metaphysics (Honderich, 1995). Science makes up an important part of ...
Christ. The polytheistic society of ancient Greece was already moving toward belief in a single god by the time of Plato and his ...
This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...
In ten pages this tutorial paper imagines a lively dialogue between political philosophers including St. Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle...
who will eventually hold office and decide what to pursue in respect to issues like abortion, stem cell research and capital punis...
human being for a short span of time. The cave allegory is quite well known and has been used by many to interpret Platos philosop...
Ulman, 2005, PG). In order to construct a successful argument for a particular position, therefore, one has to first amass th...
interaction with the world, ourselves, and others. Our perceptual capacities are not fixed; they are not static or one-dimensiona...
In ten pages this paper refers to the writings of Thucydides, Aristotle, and Plato in a consideration of past and present politica...
This paper examines the history of philosophy and philosophers. The author discusses key figures in philosophy such as Aristotle,...
In seven pages this paper discusses Athenian democracy in terms of concept, the 'Constitution' of Aristotle, the criticisms of Pla...
In eight pages this paper examines how the views of Aristotle and Plato on God's existence, poetics, and forms concepts differed. ...
Since approximately 700 B. C., astronomy had a great deal to do with keeping time (PG). Natural periods of time were generated th...
he did not know the true cause of an action he would readily admit to not knowing. This should not be mistaken however for a will...
What was established as the first recognized law came from the fact that revenge played a big role in societys unruliness. As it ...
In six pages Cicero's concepts of justice and political stability are compared with the views of Aristotle and Plato. Six sources...
In twelve pages this paper discusses the Greek cultural importance of mathematicians such as Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras, and Pto...
In twenty five pages this paper examines the philosophies of Aristotle, Socrates, and Plato as they influenced the origins of the...
be composed of three sections: the deliberative, the executive, and the judicial. We can see why those who drafted the United St...