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is no realistic political system, for it takes considerably more than one mans word to impart a true sense of unity. "Thus, for y...

from the fact that I realized that I knew nothing. A man of my era named Chaerephon once asked the Oracle at Delphi is there w...

a humans body. It sought to find pleasure and to find sustenance. "These appetites should not be allowed, to enslave the other ele...

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...

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...

Although biblical, the story provides a warning in that perhaps a little knowledge can be harmful. Another point of view is that k...

to be transcendent elements sent to teach important lessons turns out to be nothing more than images cast from puppets whose shado...

human being from conception to death is encapsulated in a pod. In Platos Cave the only thing that they can see is...

with sickness, or the pilot who helps friends against "the perils of the sea" (Plato Book I). He then inquires into "what sort of ...

what was passing in the world around them, to the realm of re-presentative intellect. An external phenomenon is thus translated i...

these children may have to become involved on a civic level to request, require and demand accessibility to all areas of a school ...

like Hades and the underworld; Tiresias the blind seer; and other references to death and dying (Plato). They decide they have to...

off than those who remain in the cave. Before delving into an analysis, it pays to explore the allegory as laid out by Plato. Wh...

noble. Socrates was doing the right thing. Today, as people wrestle with unjust rules and laws, there are some who simply follow ...

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...

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 ...

she proved to me as I proved to him that, by my own showing, Love was neither fair nor good. " Here, the idea that love is powerfu...

the preexistence of the soul, and the separate existence of forms work together or not? Thats a lot of questions to tackle, and to...

fundamental importance in the Republic of the metaphor of descent and its connection to the two great themes of birth and death, a...

has many flaws. There is question as to whether or not the method really gets to the truth at all. In fact, one has to wonder whet...

most part. He was clearly setting himself up as some sort of martyr or individual who would ultimately bring about change to the s...

knew nothing and was far from wise, he sets upon a course of action to find someone wiser than himself to offer to the Oracle as r...

In relationship to the pros and the cons one author notes that the student can take classes from anywhere, can take classes on sub...

Once this is done the teacher can figure out reasonable objectives which involves the information being taught. An example is prov...

thought that the Theory of Forms was useless when it came to explaining the material world "because the connection between the two...

if he has acquired the knowledge he could not have acquired it in this life, unless he has been taught geometry; for he may be mad...