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various experiences are provided by Socrates and the others. In some way, the work examines the idea of power. After all, if someo...

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

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...

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

leg only" (Plato). If this were true, if there were only one process in regards to life-death, then everything would ultimately co...

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...

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...

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

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...

wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves social needs. A number of philosophers have contributed to the debate which...

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

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...

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

societys goods (Platos Political Theory, 2002). They were satisfied with their lives and held back from being passionate natured ...

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...

his argument to the priestess who taught him mysteries in his youth, Diotima of Mantinea. Attributing his words to Diotima, Socrat...

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

Despite her poor reception by those that disagree with her philosophically, Costello makes many valid points about animal rights. ...

for example, would exist even if there were no human beings there to see it, but not that colour was an independent spiritual form...

as the original Greek legal process aspired to achieve such status, it can readily be said that its integrity has been severely co...

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...

the notion of justice. This was essentially defined as doing the right thing. We note that one of the characters in the Republic i...

of veracity. This is because each segment of humanity is its own little universe and what is held to be truth in one section of th...

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