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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...

they know was agreed upon in full assembly; and should it be decided that this is not so, the poor have discovered a hundred excus...

offer a profusion of pleasures... injustice pays better than justice" (364b). Next, Socrates appeared to shift gears and direct t...

wine and pleasure, and rejecting the cold and structured nature of Apollonian society. For them, to be human is to follow ones bas...

for, but for which there were certainly problems. People too easily give up on it. In his work entitled The History of the Pelopon...

life fulfillment and that a disabled individual should be allowed to die because their quality of life will not allow them to find...

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

around, arousing them and persuading them. He illustrates how people are often irritated by him because they feel they have been r...

is only preserved as a term of reproach" (Plato). He illustrates how the figures of men and women and the third figure were round ...

Yet is it just to have such a rule in place? Furthermore is a just for a professional football team to be fined, simply because th...

the more metaphysical idea that the world of the present is known as the physical world that one is able to perceive using the sen...

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

Socrates frequently alluded was the basis for his debates with Gorgias, contending that the degree of abstraction pursued by thoug...

Introduction The issues surrounding abortion are complex to say the least. People are polarized on the issue...

original thirteen colonies on which the new United States of America was founded removed their approval of being governed by the B...

that was determined by human will, in that people choose whether or not to keep their promises (Hobbes, 1982). Those that keep th...

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...

interprets the ideal of freedom and to what extent they live in their own psychological prisons. Social freedom means that one wil...

had to be obtained by directing the students mind toward the discovery of what is real and important, then allowing them to deduce...

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

the best" (the literal definition of aristocracy) was to be achieved. This scenario, by its very nature, assured the manifestatio...

also wrote that one could live justly only if they lived in a just society (Beck, n.d.). Plato had a number of caveats about a jus...

sported the slogan "Challenge Authority." To many, it had little meaning. That is because the majority of people are sheep. They d...

this pint he is, in essence, pleading for his life and states, "I dare say that you may feel irritated at being suddenly awakened ...

and ones existence. To reach true happiness, Plato contended that people must strive for a contentment that only comes from being...

that the story being told is one that has been re-told so often that it is little more than hearsay, and it is from this "story of...

believe. Deweys central thesis is rather controversial, but is seemingly valid, and has withstood the test of time. Indeed, Deweys...

charges of impiety and corruption of youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens ("Socrates," 2003). While this ph...

background, the points which Gray (2001) makes are surprising to say the least. Gray (2001) sees the war we as a society are wagi...

the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...