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tongue slow to respond is more than fear, it is also rage (line 3). This rage is so intense that it weakens his heart, that is, hi...

anxiety of aloneness, but the wish to conquer or be conquered, by vanity, by the wish to hurt or even to destroy, as much as it ca...

a cave. They make love and, from this point on, Dido considers them to be married even though a ceremony has not officially consec...

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...

become separate" (p.48). An interest point is made as Fromm investigates erotic love. Today, many equate eroticism with romanticis...

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...

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...

"It did not seem to me to be a time to guard myself / against Loves blows: so I went on / confident, unsuspecting; from that, my t...

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

like knowledge itself, is secure. Indeed, according to Plato correct opinion is a guide to knowledge. To be correct, opinions th...

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

hope for ever having his love requited has evaporated, but he persists in his quest regardless because it has become too late to b...

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...

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...

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

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

While the couple is not married in the legal sense to each other (their bonds of matrimony are with others), it becomes obvious th...

three characters (a stranger from Athens; Cleinias, from Crete; and Megillus, a Lacedaemonian) are discussing their various types ...

suggest that both love and hate can be taught (Plato). We can further extrapolate from that to conclude that if a nation is in har...

is clear that each of them has some wish in his mind that he cant articulate; instead, like an oracle, he half-grasps what he want...

cousins wife and when he was killed by a tram, Inez took her in (Sartre). But Inez tortured Florence by constantly reminding her o...

unison (Rosen, 2005). Plato (1996) writes: "Is not the community of pleasure and pain the tie that binds? The sharing, to the grea...

to her parents, her teachers, and her classmates that something was diverting her attentions from her studies and even from her fa...

as the emotions of like, and physical attraction (Sternberg; Barnes, 1989). Where the decision or commitment component is involves...

truly understand Gods word: "I ask Thee, my God: pardon my sins, and as Thou didst grant to Thy servant to speak those words, gran...

old age. There is a symbolic reality to the novel that is always filled with a sense of illness and decay, which are all intricate...

in order to insure passage to the underworld. The Underworld in this mythology was not a particularly happy place; it was a gloomy...

Song is an aging man who longs for love, particularly courtly love that fits with his expectations of both women and love....