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top the list. The Catholic Church is often quoted as having said, "Give me a child until he is seven and he will always be Catholi...
things that are not concrete, but ideas. This type of thinking, the student could state, however, really puts a hold on empirical ...
(2002) argument is based on his experiences as first a federal prosecutor, then a trial judge, and finally a California Superior C...
However, Allen also makes the point that Platos attitude was at least partially due to his respect and fear of the powers of art o...
wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves social needs. A number of philosophers have contributed to the debate which...
the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...
also believed in one realm. Spinoza writes: "By God, I mean a Being absolutely infinite -- that is, a substance consisting in inf...
This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...
In ten pages this tutorial paper imagines a lively dialogue between political philosophers including St. Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle...
who will eventually hold office and decide what to pursue in respect to issues like abortion, stem cell research and capital punis...
human being for a short span of time. The cave allegory is quite well known and has been used by many to interpret Platos philosop...
Ulman, 2005, PG). In order to construct a successful argument for a particular position, therefore, one has to first amass th...
that is permanent and immutable. It is this world that is more real; the world of change is merely an imperfect image of this worl...
interaction with the world, ourselves, and others. Our perceptual capacities are not fixed; they are not static or one-dimensiona...
In nine pages this paper examines the philosophies of Mary Wollstonecraft, Samuel Gompers, Frederick Douglass, Plato, and Aristotl...
Christ. The polytheistic society of ancient Greece was already moving toward belief in a single god by the time of Plato and his ...
of science there are two branches which are epistemology and metaphysics (Honderich, 1995). Science makes up an important part of ...
as a teacher, is to free his students from the cave and metaphorically drag them into the sunlight. The selection from Phaedo reco...
This research report looks at how Descartes would feel about Plato's ideas. Would he agree with Plato in his ideas about death? Th...
Essentially, the allegory likens those who remain unaware of forms to prisoners chained in a cave, and they cannot turn their head...
In nine pages this report compares the philosophies on human nature as conceptualized by Niccolo Machiavelli and Plato with Plato'...
student introduce and summarize Platos "allegory of the cave". The allegory of the cave, as it is commonly known, is a dialogue be...
Brian Vickers portrays Plato as an intellectual Odysseus, stealthily stealing the rhetorical arsenal of the sophists and using it ...
the strongest objection is to defend human composition by illustrating how equating the two are like comparing apples and oranges....
can be found in many church doctrines today (Fisher, 2006). Augustine was a seeker of truth throughout his life (Smitha, 1998). H...
self-destruction. Socrates proposes many people in the simple city would not be satisfied forever with a simple way of life (Pla...
was to start writing down all the things he could remember that Socrates had said, writing down conversations he had hear and also...
different aspects of individual virtue can be seen to be included. Meno offers the suggestion that virtue can be defined as the wi...
a familiar kind of Socratic dialogue about justice, just as the Euthyphro is about piety and the Meno is about virtue. The Republi...
In two pages this paper examines philosophy's role and human activity purpose as well as Socrates' defense as represented in Apolo...