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

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

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

this pint he is, in essence, pleading for his life and states, "I dare say that you may feel irritated at being suddenly awakened ...

had to be obtained by directing the students mind toward the discovery of what is real and important, then allowing them to deduce...

of innate knowledge, he was adamant that nothing could be learned except through experience and sensory input: "How comes [the mi...

the best" (the literal definition of aristocracy) was to be achieved. This scenario, by its very nature, assured the manifestatio...

leg only" (Plato). If this were true, if there were only one process in regards to life-death, then everything would ultimately co...

sported the slogan "Challenge Authority." To many, it had little meaning. That is because the majority of people are sheep. They d...

the more metaphysical idea that the world of the present is known as the physical world that one is able to perceive using the sen...

Yet is it just to have such a rule in place? Furthermore is a just for a professional football team to be fined, simply because th...

his writings (Levinson x). Socrates would continue to dominate Platos personal and professional lives for years to come, and woul...

the circumstance. In other words, if something can go wrong with it, that sense is considered inconsequential to the final outcome...

Socrates frequently alluded was the basis for his debates with Gorgias, contending that the degree of abstraction pursued by thoug...

words, "how does one KNOW that this is the truth". Most of Socrates teaching took place on the steps of a Lyceum, much like an a...

charges of impiety and corruption of youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens ("Socrates," 2003). While this ph...

background, the points which Gray (2001) makes are surprising to say the least. Gray (2001) sees the war we as a society are wagi...

also wrote that one could live justly only if they lived in a just society (Beck, n.d.). Plato had a number of caveats about a jus...

wine and pleasure, and rejecting the cold and structured nature of Apollonian society. For them, to be human is to follow ones bas...

his argument to the priestess who taught him mysteries in his youth, Diotima of Mantinea. Attributing his words to Diotima, Socrat...

they know was agreed upon in full assembly; and should it be decided that this is not so, the poor have discovered a hundred excus...

offer a profusion of pleasures... injustice pays better than justice" (364b). Next, Socrates appeared to shift gears and direct t...

societys goods (Platos Political Theory, 2002). They were satisfied with their lives and held back from being passionate natured ...

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...

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

Indeed, one might readily surmise that Plato believed man was a product of how "own imperfect understanding of nature, of our igno...

it comes to knowledge leads one to believe that people are much more likely to act out in such a manner that is motivated only by ...

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

just that mapping of reality that corresponds to the way things are" (25). Of course, many great philosophers, such as Descartes, ...

tragedy; there may be without character" (Aristotle Poetics Part VI). At this point Aristotle indicates that more often than not p...