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Truth According to David Hume, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Aristotle

discover) the truth or falsity of propositions about past and present events, propositions about the future seem problematic. If a...

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...

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 ...

Happiness and Wisdom in Philosophy

of the same) is "reason" rather than the self-conscious "I." One may then extend the concept from ethical ideas to morality, whic...

Plato and Aristophanes on Moderation

essential to the happiness of a man - having something worth living for is as important as having something worth dying for (Bloom...

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...

Sentiment and Reason According to Adam Smith and Aristotle

existing moral standard. This fact should be kept in mind in understanding that for Aristotle whether a certain kind of behavior w...

Noted Thinkers on the Afterlife

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

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...

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...

Socratic Philosophy and Plato

is good (Frost 84). For Socrates, "a life which is always inquiring and trying to discover what is good is the best kind of life, ...

Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche and Symposium by Plato

something in Platos morality which does not really belong to Plato but is only to be met with in his philosophy, one might say in ...

Republic by Plato and Women's Role

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...

Love According to Socrates in Symposium by Plato

that love is beautiful and love is a god by showing them the true nature of love and the use love can be to humankind....

Changing Times and Unchanging Philosophical Themes

youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...

Comparative Analysis of Plato's Interpretation of Socrates' Trial and Death and I.F. Stone's The Trial and Death of Socrates

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares these differing views on Socrates' trial for political subversion and execution. T...

Discussing Justice and War A Hypothetical Dialogue Between Hector from 'The Iliad' and Socrates from Plato's 'Republic'

you not, such as you are, get your following together and sail beyond the seas? Did you not from your a far country carry off a lo...

The Case for and Against the Decriminalization of Drugs

view is not anti drugs, it is a matter of where the line is drawn and which drugs are and are not acceptable by todays values. Loo...

Baudrillard, Plato, Sartre and Thoreau

prisoners there is a raised way; and you will see, if you look, a low wall built along the way, like the screen which marionette p...

The Nature of Man According to Plato and Machiavelli

concert with personality and the physical life. Plato dissects the soul in his own unique way. He did claim that all things have...

Morality, Justice and Books I and II of The Republic by Plato

"clearness and accuracy" (336d). He elaborates in section 338c that while there are different forms of governments, each one "defi...

Socratic Dialogues Meno and Apology by Plato

sense of the word. The name of the dialogue derives from the Greek word "apologia," which literally translated means defense, or a...

U.S. Constitution and the Views of Niccolo Machiavelli and Plato

the fomentation of rebellion, and to encourage individuals to occupy themselves with private rather than state matters. He saw it ...

Piety and Socrates in Euthyphro by Plato

(4e). Intrigued by this conclusion, Socrates implores Euthyphro to share with him his definition of piety, distinguishing betwee...

Morality and Reason According to Plato, Socrates, and Sigmund Freud

inquiring and trying to discover what is good is the best kind of life, the only life worth living" (Frost, 1962, 84). As this de...

Augustine and Plato

Victorinus by Plato. This seems to have moved Augustine from the point of simply musing about immortality into an assurance about ...

Acting Justly and the Reasons for Doing So in The Republic by Plato

to be achieved. This scenario, by its very nature, assured the manifestation of orderliness and moderation rather than the less a...

A Plato Philosophy and Applied Logic Argument Example

or sight) was subjected to each individuals standards of judgment. Whereas concrete facts were not changeable or subject to ones i...

'Good Life' and the Philosophies of Albert Camus, Rene Descartes, and Plato

"I easily understand that, if some body exists, with which my mind is so conjoined and united as to be able, as it were, to consid...

Types of Threats in Confessions by Augustine, Apology by Plato, and the Epic 'Beowulf'

adversely influencing the minds of young boys. Augustines autobiographical Confessions ponders the external social threats of sex...