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Essays 541 - 570
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...
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...
reaching true conclusions and therefore may use their knowledge of language and logic to confuse the average person on the issues ...
is no realistic political system, for it takes considerably more than one mans word to impart a true sense of unity. "Thus, for y...
are afraid because ignorant, and perceive the pain and not the benefits; nor do they apprehend that a sick soul is worse than a si...
how ones intellect cannot be considered a gender. In other words, intelligence is intelligence regardless of where it is housed. ...
between the citizens. Taken together, the guardians are people who are skilled in governing certain areas. However, these two type...
In a type of author/character debate, Plato explores the premises of his theory by having Socrates debate them. Plato theorized ...
This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...
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...
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 ...
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...
what was passing in the world around them, to the realm of re-presentative intellect. An external phenomenon is thus translated i...
like Hades and the underworld; Tiresias the blind seer; and other references to death and dying (Plato). They decide they have to...
thought that the Theory of Forms was useless when it came to explaining the material world "because the connection between the two...
like knowledge itself, is secure. Indeed, according to Plato correct opinion is a guide to knowledge. To be correct, opinions th...
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...
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...
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...
noble. Socrates was doing the right thing. Today, as people wrestle with unjust rules and laws, there are some who simply follow ...
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...
could be products of society, but never the causes, or it would alter the objectivity of sociology as a science (Hamilton, 1995). ...
possible fat man in that doorway; and again, the possible bald man in that doorway. Are they the same possible men, or two possibl...
ghost, a phantom-true, but no real breath of life" (23.122-23). This minimal survival apparently depends on the appropriate funera...