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Essays 481 - 510
In six pages this report examines individual understanding of the world as considered in Plato's Phaedo, in the scientific inquiry...
In five pages this report argues that both Protagoras and Socrates' ideals are ascetic and hedonistic as presented in Plato's dial...
In five pages this report discusses Plato's dialogues in terms of how Socrates regarded his philosophical role and how he was pres...
has Socrates presented with various definitions of justice. Socrates is always opposed to any rule or definition that can be appli...
many partners and purveyors will be required to furnish them. One person will turn to another to supply a particular want, and fo...
citizen was guaranteed the right to be heard in an Athenian court. Since the government structure was founded on the principle th...
close relationships over great distances and for a long period of time, indefinitely, even with separations and loss of contact" (...
In six pages good and evil are examined along with Plato's assertion that evil is not knowingly committed by man. There are no ot...
it would seem. Socrates agrees for he sees that by having such an argument with Euthyphro he may find a better way to plead his ow...
impious act. Euthyphro replies to Socrates claiming "I am amused, Socrates, at your making a distinction between one who is a re...
role in this respect. Plato held that the key agent in any sort of behavior but especially ethical or moral behavior (or lack of t...
in order to be just. Many are familiar with the tales of Sodom and Gomorrah from the bible. They understand that many cities had ...
do good, not evil to their friends (Plato, 2002). As this indicates, Polemarchus works hard to defend his fathers "rule of thumb...
tone and character with the description of Xenophon, who says in the Memorabilia that Socrates might have been acquitted if in any...
In seven pages the cave allegory featured in Plato's Republic is applied to contemporary U.S. political leadership. Four sources ...
n.d.). Plato did talk about God, in Timaeus, Plato said that if God made the world as perfect then the soul must be perfect, also ...
humans cannot readily draw on the human collective conscious, or the knowledge that exists in the universe, they had a glimpse of ...
a weapon to the hands of a madman is obviously unjust. Taylor (2003) comments on how this refutation of Cephalus position demonstr...
individual to the spiritual and the universe. According to the scala amoris, then, love is that which in its highest and purest se...
(Washington State University, 2004). Plato asserts that our perceptions are essentially "shadows" of real objects. In ot...
spoke of virtue as something equated with wisdom. Yet he also "spoke more expansively of justice, courage, temperance, magnificenc...
as well as the people. When one views the former President of the United States, Bill Clinton, for example, one hardly thinks ab...
of death, as well as the mystery of death. This establishes a foundation from which we can learn, especially considering that Nula...
laissez faire held sway. In short, Smiths thought was that if the market and economy were basically left alone, that theyd functio...
ideas. As we shall soon see, through these speeches Plato seems to have reasoned out how it is that mankind make their way from th...
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...
the circumstance. In other words, if something can go wrong with it, that sense is considered inconsequential to the final outcome...
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. ...