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as a teacher, is to free his students from the cave and metaphorically drag them into the sunlight. The selection from Phaedo reco...

of souls (Frost 104). It is possible that Plato was attempting to use popular belief to promote the teaching of more profound trut...

employee believes a child is abused, they must call the authorities. If a child has a fight in school, the latest trend is to file...

Brian Vickers portrays Plato as an intellectual Odysseus, stealthily stealing the rhetorical arsenal of the sophists and using it ...

different aspects of individual virtue can be seen to be included. Meno offers the suggestion that virtue can be defined as the wi...

self-destruction. Socrates proposes many people in the simple city would not be satisfied forever with a simple way of life (Pla...

Wisdom, and the Word of God. Therefore, intellectual knowledge is not the result of the gathering of data by the intellect, but a ...

youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...

education is still substantially elevated in contemporary culture. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees virtue as choice and so mora...

for Plato and are directly related to that capacity of understanding. Physical things of the world must, of necessity, have bodily...

However, Allen also makes the point that Platos attitude was at least partially due to his respect and fear of the powers of art o...

(2002) argument is based on his experiences as first a federal prosecutor, then a trial judge, and finally a California Superior C...

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...

of innate knowledge, he was adamant that nothing could be learned except through experience and sensory input: "How comes [the mi...

theory of "seeing is believing" and that something must be touched in order to be a reality. According to Goellnitz, one s...

is good (Frost 84). For Socrates, "a life which is always inquiring and trying to discover what is good is the best kind of life, ...

In five pages this research paper discusses education in ancient Greece with a consideration of the systems in Sparta and Athens a...

trial for treason and his thoughts prior to his execution. These are the Apology, the Crito and the Phaedo, which is an account of...

"what is justice?" and after a definition is provided, Socrates gets the interlocutor to make a statement that would obviously con...

his writings (Levinson x). Socrates would continue to dominate Platos personal and professional lives for years to come, and woul...

also supported what was known as the Theory of Ideas, which mainly stated that archetypal ideas (which rest in the universal)(Plan...

can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees it as symbolic of humans o...

be studied scientifically in order to derive the most rational, economic and efficient means of administering policy. The form is...

also believed in one realm. Spinoza writes: "By God, I mean a Being absolutely infinite -- that is, a substance consisting in inf...

human nature is bound by the weakness of mans character? In short, Platos (1979) freed prisoner is himself, the cave reflects the...

subject of forms. While Plato held a dual realms theory, Aristotle saw form and matter as existing in the same realm. In discussi...

led to alter his position. The old philosophers gave much attention to the issue of knowledge and epistemology. Aristotle ...

In eight pages this paper discusses whether or not the government is justified in legally regulating marijuana use according to th...

What constitutes good is considered from a philosophical perspective in five pages with the focus being on the philosophies of Pla...