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

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

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

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

This paper examines if Niccolo Machiavelli or Plato would have provided Ralph with better advice on governing the island in this a...

In five pages the perceptions of classical philosophers Machiavelli, Plato, and Aristotle are applied to defense management's ethi...

student sees in relationship to what the image can present: "but of the ideas which they resemble; not of the figures which they d...

that was filed did not meet the criteria to dismiss such heinous a charge ("Lawyers Request To Dismiss Moms Charges Denied" ). The...

various experiences are provided by Socrates and the others. In some way, the work examines the idea of power. After all, if someo...

be quantified. That is, ones life may be the truth, but it cannot be articulated as the truth. Still, there had been much debate b...

very powerful and just individual, putting aside the fact she was a woman. While this speaks of men, and fighting for justice, one...

tragedy" (Cai, 1999, p. 317). For Confucius, the focus was much narrower: when he considered poetry, he was thinking of the Book o...

Despite her poor reception by those that disagree with her philosophically, Costello makes many valid points about animal rights. ...

of fire (The New York Times, 2008). He lived during the late fifth century BC (The New York Times, 2008). The Eleatic school for i...

moral fact by levying skepticism towards the basis of those moral truths and facts (Sinnott-Armstrong, 2011). For instance, one mi...

view is that the appetite for wisdom is the most noble of the possible forces that can drive humanity, and as such, the one which ...

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at American and Greek democracies. The Republic of Plato is also presented in summary-f...

This essay reports on three adult learning theories and relates them to the writer's experience. The theories are Freire, Mezirow,...

In a paper of thirteen pages, the writer looks at classical texts by Francis Bacon and Plato. The allegory of the cave and the fou...

Near-death experiences (NDE) have been reported since ancient times. Even Plato reported one. In recent decades, there have been t...

This essay pertain to the way Plato and Nietzsche perceived the character and philosophy of Socrates. Seven pages in length, five ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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...

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