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In three pages gender concepts are discussed in this consideration of how Plato regarded equality for women. Two sources are cite...
a product of how "own imperfect understanding of nature, of our ignorance of how to harmonize our activities with the worlds scrip...
This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...
In five pages this paper examines what Plato might think of the beliefs and theories of Friedrich Nietzsche and also discusses Nie...
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...
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...
In six pages this paper discusses crime and punishment in a fictitious dialogue between Kant, Hobbes, and Plato. Three sources ar...
In thirty five pages various philosophers such as Pythagoras, Plato, John Stuart Mill, and Immanuel Kant are incorporated into an ...
In five pages this research paper discusses education in ancient Greece with a consideration of the systems in Sparta and Athens a...
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 ...
moral fact by levying skepticism towards the basis of those moral truths and facts (Sinnott-Armstrong, 2011). For instance, one mi...
This essay reports on three adult learning theories and relates them to the writer's experience. The theories are Freire, Mezirow,...
to return to the cave because its familiar and comfortable? The answer to all these questions is "yes." (Allegory of the Cave, 2...
the street ... must and will reflect our personal moral standards" (Reavley, 2001). Those moral standards, Reavley implies, must ...
Christ. The polytheistic society of ancient Greece was already moving toward belief in a single god by the time of Plato and his ...
only thing that is known is what is presently occurring. In other words, if something is out of ones eyesight and experience, it i...
come after Plato, not before. (This example is found in Book VII of The Republic, which is available online.) As Im sure youll ...
of science there are two branches which are epistemology and metaphysics (Honderich, 1995). Science makes up an important part of ...
his argument to the priestess who taught him mysteries in his youth, Diotima of Mantinea. Attributing his words to Diotima, Socrat...
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...
wine and pleasure, and rejecting the cold and structured nature of Apollonian society. For them, to be human is to follow ones bas...
societys goods (Platos Political Theory, 2002). They were satisfied with their lives and held back from being passionate natured ...
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...
(2002) argument is based on his experiences as first a federal prosecutor, then a trial judge, and finally a California Superior C...
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 ...
Indeed, one might readily surmise that Plato believed man was a product of how "own imperfect understanding of nature, of our igno...
of the same) is "reason" rather than the self-conscious "I." One may then extend the concept from ethical ideas to morality, whic...
essential to the happiness of a man - having something worth living for is as important as having something worth dying for (Bloom...
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 ...
patently incorrect assumption or definition. Socrates exercises in dialogue and thinking are not entirely negative and are certa...