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who live with us and present themselves in abundance, as far as is possible. Wherefore we must keep them before us1." Here, it see...

like the male philosophers of the day. She was the exception. While by and large, the people saw women as having a subservient pla...

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

"what is justice?" and after a definition is provided, Socrates gets the interlocutor to make a statement that would obviously con...

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

culpable. It is true that many other nations, such as France, opposed the war effort in Iraq. Did the U.S. overstep its bounds? Wh...

only thing that is known is what is presently occurring. In other words, if something is out of ones eyesight and experience, it i...

a product of how "own imperfect understanding of nature, of our ignorance of how to harmonize our activities with the worlds scrip...

to return to the cave because its familiar and comfortable? The answer to all these questions is "yes." (Allegory of the Cave, 2...

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

society exist without democracy? Many theorists today would think not, and while many enlightened individuals could argue that mer...

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

smartest beings when it comes to illustrating their capacity for cultivating and understanding knowledge; therefore, the value of ...

be quantified. That is, ones life may be the truth, but it cannot be articulated as the truth. Still, there had been much debate b...

tragedy" (Cai, 1999, p. 317). For Confucius, the focus was much narrower: when he considered poetry, he was thinking of the Book o...

various experiences are provided by Socrates and the others. In some way, the work examines the idea of power. After all, if someo...

This paper examines if Niccolo Machiavelli or Plato would have provided Ralph with better advice on governing the island in this a...

that was filed did not meet the criteria to dismiss such heinous a charge ("Lawyers Request To Dismiss Moms Charges Denied" ). The...

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...

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...

his argument to the priestess who taught him mysteries in his youth, Diotima of Mantinea. Attributing his words to Diotima, Socrat...

believe. Deweys central thesis is rather controversial, but is seemingly valid, and has withstood the test of time. Indeed, Deweys...

In six pages this paper analyzes The Republic by Plato in a consideration of how women's roles are portrayed. There is 1 source c...

how the individual, the personality, that is a human being is likely never to experience an afterlife. In this we see that Flew do...

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...

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...

the notion of justice. This was essentially defined as doing the right thing. We note that one of the characters in the Republic i...