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Lysias topic is love, which in the ancient Greek world referred to the love of a man for another man. Homosexuality was practiced...

human nature is bound by the weakness of mans character? In short, Platos (1979) freed prisoner is himself, the cave reflects the...

qualities in the face of conflict or challenge. "Deliberate effort and the taking of thoughtful pains are required...Education, a...

he make it eternal anyway? Many people think of the universe as something that was eternal in the first place, irrespective of wha...

not go to reincarnation necessarily, but rather to the idea that death does not end life. On the other hand, New Ageism, Buddhism,...

surely bless you and make your descendant as numerous as the stars in the sky." Because Abraham never questioned a divine commandm...

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...

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

subject of forms. While Plato held a dual realms theory, Aristotle saw form and matter as existing in the same realm. In discussi...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

the circumstance. In other words, if something can go wrong with it, that sense is considered inconsequential to the final outcome...

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

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...

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 ...

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...

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

In five pages this paper presents a summary of the Crito dialogue by Plato. Three other sources are cited in the bibliography....

In ten pages various philosophical methods are applied to the Monica Lewinsky scandal in terms of what might offer the best instru...