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it comes to knowledge leads one to believe that people are much more likely to act out in such a manner that is motivated only by ...

the notion of justice. This was essentially defined as doing the right thing. We note that one of the characters in the Republic i...

of veracity. This is because each segment of humanity is its own little universe and what is held to be truth in one section of th...

just that mapping of reality that corresponds to the way things are" (25). Of course, many great philosophers, such as Descartes, ...

(Garrett(1)). In addition these gods possess many human traits such as jealousy and envy. As Garrett(1) states, "These gods, mo...

offer a profusion of pleasures... injustice pays better than justice" (364b). Next, Socrates appeared to shift gears and direct t...

they know was agreed upon in full assembly; and should it be decided that this is not so, the poor have discovered a hundred excus...

wine and pleasure, and rejecting the cold and structured nature of Apollonian society. For them, to be human is to follow ones bas...

societys goods (Platos Political Theory, 2002). They were satisfied with their lives and held back from being passionate natured ...

his argument to the priestess who taught him mysteries in his youth, Diotima of Mantinea. Attributing his words to Diotima, Socrat...

also wrote that one could live justly only if they lived in a just society (Beck, n.d.). Plato had a number of caveats about a jus...

had to be obtained by directing the students mind toward the discovery of what is real and important, then allowing them to deduce...

of innate knowledge, he was adamant that nothing could be learned except through experience and sensory input: "How comes [the mi...

the best" (the literal definition of aristocracy) was to be achieved. This scenario, by its very nature, assured the manifestatio...

this pint he is, in essence, pleading for his life and states, "I dare say that you may feel irritated at being suddenly awakened ...

background, the points which Gray (2001) makes are surprising to say the least. Gray (2001) sees the war we as a society are wagi...

charges of impiety and corruption of youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens ("Socrates," 2003). While this ph...

Aristotle also proposed that the "idea of a perfect statue" is already in the marble and that the marble itself seeks to realize ...

leg only" (Plato). If this were true, if there were only one process in regards to life-death, then everything would ultimately co...

sported the slogan "Challenge Authority." To many, it had little meaning. That is because the majority of people are sheep. They d...

happens, people fail to achieve happiness and feel only increased levels of stress (Morris, 1997). If businesses incorporated Ar...

that the story being told is one that has been re-told so often that it is little more than hearsay, and it is from this "story of...

the street ... must and will reflect our personal moral standards" (Reavley, 2001). Those moral standards, Reavley implies, must ...

draw on the human collective conscious, or the knowledge that exists in the universe, they had a glimpse of it once, and that expl...

"what is justice?" and after a definition is provided, Socrates gets the interlocutor to make a statement that would obviously con...

in which truth is believed to derive chiefly from experience" (Nichols, 2003, p. 20). In order to explore his general theory, it p...

life fulfillment and that a disabled individual should be allowed to die because their quality of life will not allow them to find...

and deficiency (McCartt, 2003). Moral virtue also follows this pattern, although in this regard Aristotle refers to it as the "Go...

the circumstance. In other words, if something can go wrong with it, that sense is considered inconsequential to the final outcome...

Socrates frequently alluded was the basis for his debates with Gorgias, contending that the degree of abstraction pursued by thoug...