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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...

a body" (Aristotle), Plato illustrates his inability to see beyond mankinds mortal connection, opting instead to focus upon a deci...

youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...

education is still substantially elevated in contemporary culture. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees virtue as choice and so mora...

for Plato and are directly related to that capacity of understanding. Physical things of the world must, of necessity, have bodily...

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...

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

In three pages gender concepts are discussed in this consideration of how Plato regarded equality for women. Two sources are cite...

a product of how "own imperfect understanding of nature, of our ignorance of how to harmonize our activities with the worlds scrip...

to return to the cave because its familiar and comfortable? The answer to all these questions is "yes." (Allegory of the Cave, 2...

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...

(Sophocles). In this she is arguing how she has not followed the laws of "men" or even of the gods in this case, but rather per...

who will eventually hold office and decide what to pursue in respect to issues like abortion, stem cell research and capital punis...

God wills at any particular moment." To this proposition, Nielsen poses three questions: 1. Is being willed by God the, or even a,...

and balances helps to equalize what man truly knows and that which he thinks he knows - the very foundation for identifying weakne...

is not clear how the lower classes are expected to live (1993). It is also noted that while Plato makes a case for communism for ...

importance and children were to be guarded from superfluous information to come from for example poetry and literature. Rather, th...

a leader? How should a prince behave? Although the motive for Machiavelli writing this piece, and the application of this work to ...

the kings and philosophers -- should not have the right to bear children or even own their own property. This, he maintained, wou...

education (267). One might say that the stance is rather snobbish, but many do separate vocational and academic curriculums. They ...

she taught him that the journey of the soul is to go from the immediate experience of the everyday world and ascend into a realm t...

the amount of knowledge that anyone has very little to do with doing things that are wrong. Now, understandably, we can see wher...

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...

patently incorrect assumption or definition. Socrates exercises in dialogue and thinking are not entirely negative and are certa...

trial for treason and his thoughts prior to his execution. These are the Apology, the Crito and the Phaedo, which is an account of...

the supreme principle, the fundamental principle on which any well-ordered society could live (Bhandari, nd). Plato was certainl...

right or correct, or is there something about that action itself that God recognizes, and for this reason declares the action corr...

no matter how insignificant or trite they may seem. However, it would seem that he believed that there were at least two types of ...