Essays 301 - 330
In five pages this paper examines the philosophical questions resulting from the dialogue between Meno and Socrates as presented i...
In five pages this paper examines the dialogue between Socrates and Callicles regarding the arguments pertaining to happiness purs...
Plato's Apology is examined in 5 pages in a structural and rhetorical analysis of the philosopher's defense of his teacher Socrate...
In six pages Socrates arguments, counterarguments and the great philosopher's defense techniques are examined. Four sources are c...
In ten pages capital punishment is examined in terms of ethical acceptability with an attempt to arrive at a consensus through a c...
In ten pages various philosophical methods are applied to the Monica Lewinsky scandal in terms of what might offer the best instru...
to shake off these social controls and become the master rather than the slave. This, he argues, is the true justice of nature: la...
support for the notion that people must obey the laws of the place in which they are born. How is this accomplished? Aristotle d...
"Metamorphoses" and Socrates "Apology". While "Apology" is Platos account of Socrates trial and ultimate death it is also...
profit than seeking knowledge. The schools headmaster was Socrates, and Strepsiades hopes that Phidippides will be able to apply ...
words, "how does one KNOW that this is the truth". Most of Socrates teaching took place on the steps of a Lyceum, much like an a...
background, the points which Gray (2001) makes are surprising to say the least. Gray (2001) sees the war we as a society are wagi...
In six pages this paper analyzes the contention of Socrates that an 'unexamined life is not worth living' as this view is represen...
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...
The writer discusses the moral and ethical positions of several philosophers including Ayer, Smith, Mackie, Socrates and Glaucon. ...
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...
individuality and happiness are intrinsically related, as the achievement of personal happiness is associated with obtaining the i...
Kamath (2007) goes through all the possible outcomes regarding this dilemma. He explains that if the operation goes forth, there a...
wish, they have other freedoms that are perhaps not as obvious. Brave New World supports the hedonistic view. That is, Huxley (199...
always do the good" and, therefore, is someone goes astray, it is because they lack the knowledge of how to "act rightly" (Shiraev...
ethical theory that supports killing off twice as many people to save half as many because you like them better. That is unethica...
This essay pertain to the way Plato and Nietzsche perceived the character and philosophy of Socrates. Seven pages in length, five ...
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...
could be products of society, but never the causes, or it would alter the objectivity of sociology as a science (Hamilton, 1995). ...
and is not open to the charge of flattery" (Plato). While Socrates then discusses the love of youth, possibly referring to having ...
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...
student sees in relationship to what the image can present: "but of the ideas which they resemble; not of the figures which they d...