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Essays 511 - 540
possible fat man in that doorway; and again, the possible bald man in that doorway. Are they the same possible men, or two possibl...
than creating automatons, passive people who have a misguided sense of reality (Freire 71). Despite Freires going somewha...
ghost, a phantom-true, but no real breath of life" (23.122-23). This minimal survival apparently depends on the appropriate funera...
individual to the spiritual and the universe. According to the scala amoris, then, love is that which in its highest and purest se...
something new. While ease of learning is not exactly the goal, the concept of generalist education helps students make a definite ...
humans cannot readily draw on the human collective conscious, or the knowledge that exists in the universe, they had a glimpse of ...
a weapon to the hands of a madman is obviously unjust. Taylor (2003) comments on how this refutation of Cephalus position demonstr...
In a type of author/character debate, Plato explores the premises of his theory by having Socrates debate them. Plato theorized ...
n.d.). Plato did talk about God, in Timaeus, Plato said that if God made the world as perfect then the soul must be perfect, also ...
In a paper that consists of eight pages Plato's interpretation of the soul and its parts are explored along with a discussion of t...
This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...
In seven pages the cave allegory featured in Plato's Republic is applied to contemporary U.S. political leadership. Four sources ...
soul, as imaged by Plato, is made up of the qualities of reason, spirit and desire or appetite (Honderich, et al, 1995). The "reas...
in order to be just. Many are familiar with the tales of Sodom and Gomorrah from the bible. They understand that many cities had ...
what was passing in the world around them, to the realm of re-presentative intellect. An external phenomenon is thus translated i...
and with that has come an interest in spirituality itself, outside of any religious context. It is this search for a truth that m...
can one know what is beautiful or what is ugly? There must be some sort of shared experience. Plato uses a cave allegory--somethi...
for which they are talented. Here, it is thought that the rulers who are willing to rule, who go into the cave, who are vocal, are...
are from a white European history can learn to appreciate others from other nations and cultures. For example, one author notes, "...
dropping out of high school and many may well find, years down the line, that they now want a high school education. One author no...
could be products of society, but never the causes, or it would alter the objectivity of sociology as a science (Hamilton, 1995). ...
means of indoctrinating children and young people with the values that constitute the norm of their society. For Functionalists, t...
& Education Quarterly, 31, 202-229. This paper describes the way in which a "team of urban middle school educators developed a du...
to the outside, the cave becomes a type of conduit, or birth canal which brings him into the life of actual knowledge. What one ca...
with sickness, or the pilot who helps friends against "the perils of the sea" (Plato Book I). He then inquires into "what sort of ...
reaching true conclusions and therefore may use their knowledge of language and logic to confuse the average person on the issues ...
Ryan helps one to understand how there is nothing inherently wrong with being smart, unless the individual is a child who does not...
In six pages this paper analyzes the contention of Socrates that an 'unexamined life is not worth living' as this view is represen...
profit than seeking knowledge. The schools headmaster was Socrates, and Strepsiades hopes that Phidippides will be able to apply ...
So for Plato, this idea extended into both personal and political ramifications. He reasoned that when an individual was doing th...