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

of the same) is "reason" rather than the self-conscious "I." One may then extend the concept from ethical ideas to morality, whic...

something in Platos morality which does not really belong to Plato but is only to be met with in his philosophy, one might say in ...

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

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...

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

Christ. The polytheistic society of ancient Greece was already moving toward belief in a single god by the time of Plato and his ...

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

culpable. It is true that many other nations, such as France, opposed the war effort in Iraq. Did the U.S. overstep its bounds? Wh...

of science there are two branches which are epistemology and metaphysics (Honderich, 1995). Science makes up an important part of ...

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

only thing that is known is what is presently occurring. In other words, if something is out of ones eyesight and experience, it i...

come after Plato, not before. (This example is found in Book VII of The Republic, which is available online.) As Im sure youll ...

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

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...

This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...

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 ...

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...

In ten pages this tutorial paper imagines a lively dialogue between political philosophers including St. Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle...

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

smartest beings when it comes to illustrating their capacity for cultivating and understanding knowledge; therefore, the value of ...

major argument in favor of poetry; that it was an educational tool that could be used in the instruction of moral values. Sidne...