Essays 271 - 300
They are, instead, robot-like in that they do what they are told and do not question the validity of the teachings. Instead, peopl...
also wrote that one could live justly only if they lived in a just society (Beck, n.d.). Plato had a number of caveats about a jus...
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...
For Socrates, and consequently Plato, the great business of life was conversation. He sought out everyone, and seizing upon some e...
In five pages this paper examines the justifiability of civil disobedience in a consideration of several philosophers and theori...
This essay discusses Robert Bolt's play that relates the life of Thomas More, A Man For All Seasons. The writer compares More's he...
upon expressing an objective truth. For example, approving of an action and stating that the action is right can be construed as ...
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...
In seven pages this paper examines the conflict of man's struggles in accepting duties and responsibilities to the polis from the ...
In five pages this paper considers why Crito believes Socrates should attempt a prison escape instead of subject himself to capita...
In six pages this paper examines Plato's Gorgias which describes a philosophical dialogue between the title character and Socrates...
In six pages this paper discusses virtue and whether or not it is possible to teach in a consideration of the dialogue between Men...
In five pages this paper considers how Socrates may have delivered a speech regarding love with references made to Symposium by ...
purposes, that they are omnipresent, and that they give signs to men of all that concerns them (X Memorabilia I, I, 19) (Beck ppg...
In five pages this paper discusses the text's featured conversation between Socrates and Euthyphro as it pertains to piety and tru...
In this paper consisting of twenty pages questions regarding such influential philosophers as Robert Nozick, Mary Daly, the Stoics...
say that a given society defines its own justice. Correspondingly another society, might have a slightly different version. Anaxi...
the two philosophers arose from the manifestation that Gorgias was forever attempting to read between the lines of what Socrates h...
In five pages this essay examines the mind and soul dichotomy as conceptualized by Socrates and represented by Plato in Apology an...
In ten pages various philosophical methods are applied to the Monica Lewinsky scandal in terms of what might offer the best instru...
In five pages this paper examines the philosophies of Rand, Mills, Kant, Aristotle, and Socrates in a consideration whether or not...
fact that they were poets made them think that they had a perfect understanding of all other subjects, of which they were totally ...
Justice is the idea of focus in this paper that looks at The Republic. The dialog between Cephalus and Socrates is discussed in de...
In 6 pages this paper critically analyzes Socrates argument regarding justice in this text and the use of logical deduction by Pla...
It is important for to understand that there exist a great many philosophies by which people live their lives. These philosophies...
In eight pages this report examines Socrates from several perspectives including his discussion of issues with Crito and Euthyphro...
In five pages this paper discusses ideology and religion in a consideration of similarities and differences with Karl Marx and Soc...
In six pages this paper assesses whether or not Socrates was innocent or guilty of the crimes alleged by his accusers. Five sourc...