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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 ...

Legal Profession and Ethics

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

What Oedipus Rex Means to Greek Culture

events that all resulted in tragedy was when Laius insisted that his healthy infant son should be left to die from exposure. While...

Search for Tomorrow Soap Opera and What is Meant by the Plight of the Heroine Joanne

law. Joanne, the protagonist, had endured a lifetime of woe, beginning with the death of her husband. The widow was seemingly man...

Islamic Jihad and What It Means

possible to see even though war may be inevitable in some circumstances Muslims should not be those to start the war, as seen with...

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...

Faith and its Meaning

Relatively little in terms of documentable fact, however, is known about the early history of Christianity. We look, of course, p...

Philosophers on Life's Meaning

one looks at a variety of lifetimes via reincarnation, its purpose explained by knowledge. In other words, people are born and liv...

Meaning of Patriotism

positive and gratifying experience for citizens, who feel indebted to their country for receiving such blessings as freedom, secur...

The Fourth Amendment and Its Meaning in America Today

of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effect, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be ...

Meaning of Terrorism

style. Terrorism according to Laqueur In his book, The New Terrorism: Fanaticism and the Arms of Mass Destruction, writer ...

Individual's Personal Duty to Country

no matter how insignificant or trite they may seem. However, it would seem that he believed that there were at least two types of ...

Philosophers on Religious Ethics

right or correct, or is there something about that action itself that God recognizes, and for this reason declares the action corr...

Views by Plato and Socrates That No One Knowingly Commits Wrong

the amount of knowledge that anyone has very little to do with doing things that are wrong. Now, understandably, we can see wher...

Aristotle and Plato on Human Nature and Love

Plato emphasizes the importance of maintaining self control in the face of eros, the importance of purging the passions of the fle...

Aristotle and Plato

theory of "seeing is believing" and that something must be touched in order to be a reality. According to Goellnitz, one s...

Courage, the Theory of the Mean and Aristotle

of any specific society which destroyed the identity of justice and morality as one with the state. Obviously, such thinking serve...

Psychology and its Meaning

a cause and that the cause of a particular reaction could be interpreted through deductive reasoning (Psychology, 1993). Other phi...

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...

People as The Ends and Means of Actions and the Theories of Rawls, Nozick, and Kant

through a consideration not of personal benefit but simply on the basis that the choices are the only rational ones. Kant argues ...

Aeschylus and Plato on Justice

works into three central periods: namely, early, middle and late and the Republic is generally regarded as a middle period work (W...

How Buildings Mean by Nelson Goodman

are works of art, and this is not a matter of the difference between good and bad art: in fact, he asserts specifically that most ...

Ancient Egypt's Civilization and its Meaning

In five pages this paper examines the meaning of civilization in this Ancient Egypt consideration that discusses its socioeconomic...

Democracy's Inferiority According to Plato

motives of ambition -- it has no name in common use that I know of; let us call it timarchy or timocracy -- and then go on to ol...

Masculinity Meanings in the Stories of Ernest Hemingway

and repelled by." This writer disagrees concerning the assumption that there was a "blurring" of sex roles during this period. Hem...

History and Testing Measures of Intelligence Theory

is supplemented by innate elements of the intellect (DeLouth, 2002). This theory keyed into the nature-nurture debate. Skipping ...

Ninth Chapter of the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and What it Means

on a large truck, often driven by hired men they do not know. It is scary to have to leave everything one owns in one place and ha...

Cinematic Portrayal of Greek Virtue and Philosophers

84). However, Socrates is willing to concede that an individual can desire an evil thing if he mistakenly first evaluates it as go...

Enlightenment and its Meaning

prevents not only the slaves but the Christians who own them from becoming enlightened through religion. Clearly, Immanual Kant a...