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In six pages this paper discusses crime and punishment in a fictitious dialogue between Kant, Hobbes, and Plato. Three sources ar...

In thirty five pages various philosophers such as Pythagoras, Plato, John Stuart Mill, and Immanuel Kant are incorporated into an ...

In five pages this paper examines what Plato might think of the beliefs and theories of Friedrich Nietzsche and also discusses Nie...

concept of beauty, and or, justice. To be able to re-cognize these, one must have the memory of the idea which in an intellectual...

In five pages this research paper discusses education in ancient Greece with a consideration of the systems in Sparta and Athens a...

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

motives of ambition -- it has no name in common use that I know of; let us call it timarchy or timocracy -- and then go on to ol...

is good (Frost 84). For Socrates, "a life which is always inquiring and trying to discover what is good is the best kind of life, ...

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 ...

essential to the happiness of a man - having something worth living for is as important as having something worth dying for (Bloom...

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

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

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

why so many people had to suffer. No matter the cause, the gods were not looked on with the reverence they had once enjoyed, and t...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

the individual and a definition of justice. There are three classes for the state to function properly: artisans, who are skilled ...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

(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...