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between the citizens. Taken together, the guardians are people who are skilled in governing certain areas. However, these two type...

how ones intellect cannot be considered a gender. In other words, intelligence is intelligence regardless of where it is housed. ...

to be transcendent elements sent to teach important lessons turns out to be nothing more than images cast from puppets whose shado...

is a case for communism at least for the lower classes. The supporting premises for that conclusion have already been noted and ge...

yet does not lose faith in the just and true" (Plato Jowett Translation Characters). In this we see that Plato appears to be indic...

the lyrics in modern songs, and in essence, the poets of today are Eminem and Jay Zee and Beyonce. Lyrics to emanate from these ar...

In seven pages the cave allegory featured in Plato's Republic is applied to contemporary U.S. political leadership. Four sources ...

soul, as imaged by Plato, is made up of the qualities of reason, spirit and desire or appetite (Honderich, et al, 1995). The "reas...

In a type of author/character debate, Plato explores the premises of his theory by having Socrates debate them. Plato theorized ...

in order to be just. Many are familiar with the tales of Sodom and Gomorrah from the bible. They understand that many cities had ...

like Hades and the underworld; Tiresias the blind seer; and other references to death and dying (Plato). They decide they have to...

Divine Comedy is examined in six pages in terms of the tales 4 meaning levels, considers why Dante selected Beatrice as the primar...

In four pages this paper discusses the contemporary court system and considers Plato's philosophy on leadership as presented in Th...

In five pages a comparison and contrast of how these philosophers perceived political leadership are made by noting the difference...

In five pages Kaku's theory of the universe is compared and contrasted with Plato's cave allegory that is featured in Book VII of ...

In six pages this paper discusses the philosophical distinctions Socrates made between these two concepts as presented in Plato's ...

In seven pages this paper examines Plato's Phaedo and The Republic in terms of how it portrays the philosopher's perspectives on d...

for which they are talented. Here, it is thought that the rulers who are willing to rule, who go into the cave, who are vocal, are...

fundamental importance in the Republic of the metaphor of descent and its connection to the two great themes of birth and death, a...

This paper discusses different parts of Plato's Republic. There is a discussion of natural law legal theory and legal positivist t...

unison (Rosen, 2005). Plato (1996) writes: "Is not the community of pleasure and pain the tie that binds? The sharing, to the grea...

A research paper addressing the portrayal of evil in Dante's Divine Comedy and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The author draws the c...

Aristotles concrete, scientific theories are more relevant than Platos deductive and abstract ideology. Aristotle believed...

still perhaps not arriving at solid answers when his friend tells him he has to leave. Socrates tells him, "Alas! my companion, an...

possible fat man in that doorway; and again, the possible bald man in that doorway. Are they the same possible men, or two possibl...

student introduce and summarize Platos "allegory of the cave". The allegory of the cave, as it is commonly known, is a dialogue be...

In this paper of fifteen pages it is Plato that is accused of treason in this new version of 'Apology' and must defend himself aga...

the preexistence of the soul, and the separate existence of forms work together or not? Thats a lot of questions to tackle, and to...

is great interest. Plato looks at all of these things in his book The Republic. In Book I, justice is discussed and it is deemed ...

suggest that both love and hate can be taught (Plato). We can further extrapolate from that to conclude that if a nation is in har...