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Politics and Imaginary Dialogues

In ten pages this tutorial paper imagines a lively dialogue between political philosophers including St. Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle...

Social Control and the 'Noble Lie' of Plato

stratification of society. The rulers tell the populace that the divisions between one social group and another are because of div...

'Good Life' According to Socrates

interaction with the world, ourselves, and others. Our perceptual capacities are not fixed; they are not static or one-dimensiona...

'Perfect Society' Concept and What It Means

a true democracy. The Holy Grail will not be the quest for material possession - nor will this society be based upon a monetary s...

Meaning in Terms of Artist and Art

sometimes knowing what the artist was thinking or saying influences a viewers interpretation and appreciation in a negative way. I...

Human Nature According to Saint Augustine and Plato

the individual and a definition of justice. There are three classes for the state to function properly: artisans, who are skilled ...

Thomas Aquinas and Plato on Justice

virtue, i.e., justice, but it is also included under Aquinas discussion of love, specifically under love of ones neighbor, for Go...

Martin Scorsese's Justification of Violence in Films Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, GoodFellas and Casino

and accumulating gambling debts he cannot possibly pay, the stage is set for a bloody confrontation when loan sharks come calling....

Socrates and Plato on Wisdom

because it is supposed to produce truth in the end. The essence of this method is a process that usually begins with Socrates ask...

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry and Money's Meaning

Friday. (Gleefully) Check coming tomorrow , huh?" (Hansberry 8). Ruth simply replies, "You get your mind off money and eat your br...

The Meaning of the Battle of Stalingrad

come to fruition. In part, good wins out over evil. Even within Hitlers own ranks there was dissention, a lack of resolve, and a t...

Armenia, Genocide & Meaning

applicable to the overall topic of genocide. Therefore, the following examination of the Armenian Genocide, concentrating on the h...

What Writing Means to an Individual

difficult or confusing, perhaps largely because of how writing is taught and how structuring sentences can become almost scientifi...

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...

What It Means to Be a Teacher

educational policy, such as high stakes testing, which places more emphasis on meeting a preset criterion than on a teachers profe...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

Begging and its Meaning in Elective Affinities by Goethe

seen in a negative light. In the work by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe entitled Elective Affinities there is a sense that begging is...

The Republic by Plato and Its Strengths and Weaknesses

draw on the human collective conscious, or the knowledge that exists in the universe, they had a glimpse of it once, and that expl...

Ancient Egypt and What it Means to Be Part of an Empire

king of Egypt was unwilling to commit military to defend northern Syria" (The Gathering Storm, 2005). Perhaps because of their res...

What Michael Bloomberg's New York City Mayoral Victory Means

been many issues to crop up during 2005, inclusive of the bid for the Olympics. There was heated debated about a stadium to be bui...

Oppression and What It Means

that different groups may be oppressed. For instance, WEB DuBois fought for the oppression of African Americans whereas Marx and E...