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Analyzing Crito, Euthyphro, and Apology by Plato

around, arousing them and persuading them. He illustrates how people are often irritated by him because they feel they have been r...

Modern Leadership and Classic Political Theory

as well as the people. When one views the former President of the United States, Bill Clinton, for example, one hardly thinks ab...

Abortion and Morality

Introduction The issues surrounding abortion are complex to say the least. People are polarized on the issue...

Government's General Principles

original thirteen colonies on which the new United States of America was founded removed their approval of being governed by the B...

Utopian Literature's Similarities and Differences

be attacked as while many analysts will agree that Plato clearly states this in The Republic, his other works suggest other ideas....

Democracy Critiqued by Plato

a democracy. Plato contended that it would be impossible within a democracy to have the kind of harmony and societal unit...

Republic by Plato and its Concepts

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

Women's Equality and Plato

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

Healthy and Sick City Distinctions Made by Plato

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

Morality and Whether Or Not It Can Exist Without God

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

Inductive and Metaphysical Skepticism and Meeting Their Challenges

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

Human Nature, Morality, Punishment, Guilt, Crime, Justice, and Law in Literature

(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...

Spiritual Journey and Spiritual Growth

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

Knowledge and Whether or Not Anything Can be Truly Known

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

Legal Profession and Ethics

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

Christianity and the Influence of Plato

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

The Republic by Plato and Its Strengths and Weaknesses

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

Justice Conceptual Inquiry

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

Justifying the Iraq War Philosophically

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...

Women as Viewed by Plato

society exist without democracy? Many theorists today would think not, and while many enlightened individuals could argue that mer...

Socrates and Plato on Wisdom

because it is supposed to produce truth in the end. The essence of this method is a process that usually begins with Socrates ask...

Thomas Aquinas and Plato on Justice

virtue, i.e., justice, but it is also included under Aquinas discussion of love, specifically under love of ones neighbor, for Go...

Socrates' Trial in Apology by Plato

his words appear incredibly arrogant and seem to stray off the topic, as the words illustrate his intelligence and depth more than...

Plato and Sophocles

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

Plato's "Allegory Of The Cave" And Francis Bacon's "The Four Idols" - How We Know What We Know

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

Phaedo, Socrates and Immortality

the harp is broken the music stops; if the human dies, doesnt the soul also vanish? (Plato). It is to answer these concerns and ar...

Social Control and the 'Noble Lie' of Plato

stratification of society. The rulers tell the populace that the divisions between one social group and another are because of div...

Plato, Homer, and Gods

(Garrett(1)). In addition these gods possess many human traits such as jealousy and envy. As Garrett(1) states, "These gods, mo...

Form and Justice Theories of Plato

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

Justice Argument of Socrates

classes in the State severally did their own business; and also thought to be temperate and valiant and wise by reason of certain ...