Essays 121 - 150
Applying Socrates' philosophy to one's own life is the focus of this paper consisting of five pages. Four sources are cited in th...
In eight pages this paper examines Socrates' philosophical views on self examination and the importance of motivation within the i...
In five pages an analysis evaluates the accuracy of Socrates' description of the cave's prisoners as 'like ourselves.' There are ...
In five pages this paper examines concepts featured in 'Myth of the Cave' and The Apology and also considers 'The Death of Ivan Il...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares Socrates' views on morality with those of Friedrich Nietzsche as expressed in Birt...
charges of impiety and corruption of youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens ("Socrates," 2003). While this ph...
leg only" (Plato). If this were true, if there were only one process in regards to life-death, then everything would ultimately co...
(4e). Intrigued by this conclusion, Socrates implores Euthyphro to share with him his definition of piety, distinguishing betwee...
this pint he is, in essence, pleading for his life and states, "I dare say that you may feel irritated at being suddenly awakened ...
with sickness, or the pilot who helps friends against "the perils of the sea" (Plato Book I). He then inquires into "what sort of ...
offer a profusion of pleasures... injustice pays better than justice" (364b). Next, Socrates appeared to shift gears and direct t...
The only manner by which to acquire good statesmen and lawgivers, according to Socrates testimony, is to assure their individual a...
In five pages this report argues that both Protagoras and Socrates' ideals are ascetic and hedonistic as presented in Plato's dial...
soul has two principal parts. The first part of this argument is that nature inevitably follows a cyclical pattern. All vegetatio...
something in Platos morality which does not really belong to Plato but is only to be met with in his philosophy, one might say in ...
things in the sky and below the earth, who makes the worse argument the stronger " (cited in Ross, 2000, p. PG). This is a formula...
a weapon to the hands of a madman is obviously unjust. Taylor (2003) comments on how this refutation of Cephalus position demonstr...
much that it has immeasurably been altered. Who was Socrates and why was he so influential? Socrates was a Greek philosopher who ...
Clouds by Aristophanes. Reasonably, Socrates points out that the character in the play speaks nonsense and should not be confused...
as a teacher, is to free his students from the cave and metaphorically drag them into the sunlight. The selection from Phaedo reco...
the end of the Gita, Arjuna says "The delusion is gone...by your grace I have recovered my wits. Here I stand with no more doubts....
would lead to an early death, he said, "... a man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; h...
brought against me, and with my earliest accusers, and then with the later ones" (Plato, 1961, 18b). First, Socrates has been acc...
your statement, I am sorry to say, fails to express a similar concern for the conditions that brought about the demonstrations. I ...
for centuries. This paper uses Platos description of Socrates and his methods to try and answer the questions. Discussion Is wis...
Most intelligent, thinking people realize that what some scientists have reported is absolutely true. The climate is definitely ch...
There are many different kinds of hotline crisis centers. Every one of them probably deals with repeat callers, some of whom reall...
62). II. THE WHOLE STORY When the NCAA implemented instant replay in 2003, anyone even remotely interested in sports felt compel...
as he is "jerked from the heart of civilization and flung into the heart of things primordial" when a known and trusted human sell...
There is a limit to how much can be done in miniaturizing transistors to increase the speed and capacity of a microprocessor chip....