Essays 241 - 270
that Pericles was a man who felt a powerful sense of duty to his city. He was, after all, an official who stood as one who support...
always do the good" and, therefore, is someone goes astray, it is because they lack the knowledge of how to "act rightly" (Shiraev...
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...
wish, they have other freedoms that are perhaps not as obvious. Brave New World supports the hedonistic view. That is, Huxley (199...
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...
ethical theory that supports killing off twice as many people to save half as many because you like them better. That is unethica...
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...
This essay pertain to the way Plato and Nietzsche perceived the character and philosophy of Socrates. Seven pages in length, five ...
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...
student sees in relationship to what the image can present: "but of the ideas which they resemble; not of the figures which they d...
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...
In ten pages various philosophical methods are applied to the Monica Lewinsky scandal in terms of what might offer the best instru...
ghost, a phantom-true, but no real breath of life" (23.122-23). This minimal survival apparently depends on the appropriate funera...