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will is responsible for the subsequent chain of events. Therein is the problem of free will. If it in fact exists, how...
Aristotles concrete, scientific theories are more relevant than Platos deductive and abstract ideology. Aristotle believed...
academy the first university of its type, he was able to influence minds of the next generation and proliferate his ideas and meth...
major argument in favor of poetry; that it was an educational tool that could be used in the instruction of moral values. Sidne...
interaction with the world, ourselves, and others. Our perceptual capacities are not fixed; they are not static or one-dimensiona...
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...
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...
the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...
wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves social needs. A number of philosophers have contributed to the debate which...
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...
for example, would exist even if there were no human beings there to see it, but not that colour was an independent spiritual form...
as the original Greek legal process aspired to achieve such status, it can readily be said that its integrity has been severely co...
education is still substantially elevated in contemporary culture. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees virtue as choice and so mora...
of science there are two branches which are epistemology and metaphysics (Honderich, 1995). Science makes up an important part of ...
a body" (Aristotle), Plato illustrates his inability to see beyond mankinds mortal connection, opting instead to focus upon a deci...
for, but for which there were certainly problems. People too easily give up on it. In his work entitled The History of the Pelopon...
Christ. The polytheistic society of ancient Greece was already moving toward belief in a single god by the time of Plato and his ...
and ones existence. To reach true happiness, Plato contended that people must strive for a contentment that only comes from being...
In five pages this paper examines how Plato, Aristotle, and Immanuel Kant define political thinking. Six sources are cited in the...
and the things within it as mere shadows or reflections of a separate world of independently existing, eternal, and unchanging ent...
a leader? How should a prince behave? Although the motive for Machiavelli writing this piece, and the application of this work to ...
Plato emphasizes the importance of maintaining self control in the face of eros, the importance of purging the passions of the fle...
theory of "seeing is believing" and that something must be touched in order to be a reality. According to Goellnitz, one s...
right or correct, or is there something about that action itself that God recognizes, and for this reason declares the action corr...
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...