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if he has acquired the knowledge he could not have acquired it in this life, unless he has been taught geometry; for he may be mad...

it in the modern culture. What must be recognized is that gay and lesbians seek out the same kind of long-term, lasting, and st...

from the Appearances of Nature (Beebe, 2002). In this text, Paley wrote: There cannot be design without a designer; contrivance wi...

like knowledge itself, is secure. Indeed, according to Plato correct opinion is a guide to knowledge. To be correct, opinions th...

noble. Socrates was doing the right thing. Today, as people wrestle with unjust rules and laws, there are some who simply follow ...

that there is really little true proof and the atheists will argue that there is only scant knowledge on this subject. There is no...

off than those who remain in the cave. Before delving into an analysis, it pays to explore the allegory as laid out by Plato. Wh...

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

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

has many flaws. There is question as to whether or not the method really gets to the truth at all. In fact, one has to wonder whet...

most part. He was clearly setting himself up as some sort of martyr or individual who would ultimately bring about change to the s...

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...

that GM crops have been put through. The consideration can be looked at from a commercial or business perspective, from a govern...

knew nothing and was far from wise, he sets upon a course of action to find someone wiser than himself to offer to the Oracle as r...

three characters (a stranger from Athens; Cleinias, from Crete; and Megillus, a Lacedaemonian) are discussing their various types ...

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...

she proved to me as I proved to him that, by my own showing, Love was neither fair nor good. " Here, the idea that love is powerfu...

it would seem. Socrates agrees for he sees that by having such an argument with Euthyphro he may find a better way to plead his ow...

In five pages this paper applies the theological arguments of Pope Leo XIII in Rerum Novarum to the ongoing stem cell usage debate...

perfect, despite what we observe. Forms are beyond this material world, for nothing that we can grasp in this world is perfect."3 ...

In six pages good and evil are examined along with Plato's assertion that evil is not knowingly committed by man. There are no ot...

close relationships over great distances and for a long period of time, indefinitely, even with separations and loss of contact" (...

tone and character with the description of Xenophon, who says in the Memorabilia that Socrates might have been acquitted if in any...

or world. This self serving attitude is what Gutierrez suggests the classroom teacher strive to stem. He sees the soaring crime ...

impious act. Euthyphro replies to Socrates claiming "I am amused, Socrates, at your making a distinction between one who is a re...

role in this respect. Plato held that the key agent in any sort of behavior but especially ethical or moral behavior (or lack of t...

pleas, Socrates will not hear of any escape plans. He points out that, even though the sentence was unjust, it was perfectly legal...

that many writers have used familiar themes and offered a new way of seeing the traditional elements of plot and character; howeve...

In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at Plato's theories of Forms. Parmenides' views on change provide a counterpoint. Paper ...

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