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Essays 481 - 510
to return to the cave because its familiar and comfortable? The answer to all these questions is "yes." (Allegory of the Cave, 2...
Christ. The polytheistic society of ancient Greece was already moving toward belief in a single god by the time of Plato and his ...
draw on the human collective conscious, or the knowledge that exists in the universe, they had a glimpse of it once, and that expl...
smartest beings when it comes to illustrating their capacity for cultivating and understanding knowledge; therefore, the value of ...
very powerful and just individual, putting aside the fact she was a woman. While this speaks of men, and fighting for justice, one...
possibly think?" (I.3). As this indicates, Aristotles perspective is grounded in observation and reality. He sees the mind as intr...
the harp is broken the music stops; if the human dies, doesnt the soul also vanish? (Plato). It is to answer these concerns and ar...
because it is supposed to produce truth in the end. The essence of this method is a process that usually begins with Socrates ask...
interaction with the world, ourselves, and others. Our perceptual capacities are not fixed; they are not static or one-dimensiona...
stratification of society. The rulers tell the populace that the divisions between one social group and another are because of div...
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...
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...
his argument to the priestess who taught him mysteries in his youth, Diotima of Mantinea. Attributing his words to Diotima, Socrat...
wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves social needs. A number of philosophers have contributed to the debate which...
wine and pleasure, and rejecting the cold and structured nature of Apollonian society. For them, to be human is to follow ones bas...
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...
(Garrett(1)). In addition these gods possess many human traits such as jealousy and envy. As Garrett(1) states, "These gods, mo...
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...
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...
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...
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...