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Women's Equality and Plato

In three pages gender concepts are discussed in this consideration of how Plato regarded equality for women. Two sources are cite...

Healthy and Sick City Distinctions Made by Plato

a product of how "own imperfect understanding of nature, of our ignorance of how to harmonize our activities with the worlds scrip...

Preemptive War and Moral Considerations

This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...

Plato and Friedrich Nietzsche

In five pages this paper examines what Plato might think of the beliefs and theories of Friedrich Nietzsche and also discusses Nie...

Plato and Friedrich Nietzsche

concept of beauty, and or, justice. To be able to re-cognize these, one must have the memory of the idea which in an intellectual...

Between Past and Future by Hannah Arendt

to what the enlightened person must do on going back into the cave?what has been done in the past, and what might be done in the f...

Crime and Punishment as Viewed by Immanuel Kant, Thomas Hobbes, and Plato

In six pages this paper discusses crime and punishment in a fictitious dialogue between Kant, Hobbes, and Plato. Three sources ar...

Teaching Police Ethics

In thirty five pages various philosophers such as Pythagoras, Plato, John Stuart Mill, and Immanuel Kant are incorporated into an ...

Ancient Greece and Education

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

Human Nature - The Philosophical Perspective

view is that the appetite for wisdom is the most noble of the possible forces that can drive humanity, and as such, the one which ...

Nihilism: An Overview of Perspectives

moral fact by levying skepticism towards the basis of those moral truths and facts (Sinnott-Armstrong, 2011). For instance, one mi...

Adult Learning Theories

This essay reports on three adult learning theories and relates them to the writer's experience. The theories are Freire, Mezirow,...

Spiritual Journey and Spiritual Growth

to return to the cave because its familiar and comfortable? The answer to all these questions is "yes." (Allegory of the Cave, 2...

Legal Profession and Ethics

the street ... must and will reflect our personal moral standards" (Reavley, 2001). Those moral standards, Reavley implies, must ...

Christianity and Whether or not Belief in God Has Become Less Important Than Belief in Jesus Christ

Christ. The polytheistic society of ancient Greece was already moving toward belief in a single god by the time of Plato and his ...

Knowledge and Whether or Not Anything Can be Truly Known

only thing that is known is what is presently occurring. In other words, if something is out of ones eyesight and experience, it i...

Christianity and the Influence of Plato

come after Plato, not before. (This example is found in Book VII of The Republic, which is available online.) As Im sure youll ...

Greek Culture and the Evolution of Science

of science there are two branches which are epistemology and metaphysics (Honderich, 1995). Science makes up an important part of ...

'Ovid's Banquet of Sence' by George Chapman

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

Art According to Plato and Aristotle

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...

Plato and Euripides on Human Nature

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

Political Theory and Power

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

Comparative Analysis of Virtue and Vice

top the list. The Catholic Church is often quoted as having said, "Give me a child until he is seven and he will always be Catholi...

Knowledge as Conceptualized by Philosophers

it comes to knowledge leads one to believe that people are much more likely to act out in such a manner that is motivated only by ...

Poverty and the Views of Plato

Indeed, one might readily surmise that Plato believed man was a product of how "own imperfect understanding of nature, of our igno...

Happiness and Wisdom in Philosophy

of the same) is "reason" rather than the self-conscious "I." One may then extend the concept from ethical ideas to morality, whic...

Plato and Aristophanes on Moderation

essential to the happiness of a man - having something worth living for is as important as having something worth dying for (Bloom...

Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche and Symposium by Plato

something in Platos morality which does not really belong to Plato but is only to be met with in his philosophy, one might say in ...

Education in the Enlightenment vs. Classical Greek

patently incorrect assumption or definition. Socrates exercises in dialogue and thinking are not entirely negative and are certa...