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In four pages this paper examines how beauty and love were conceptualized by Socrates as portrayed in Symposium by Plato through i...
In four pages this paper discusses the soul's immortality as represented in Socrates' arguments that are featured in Meno by Plato...
In two pages this paper examines philosophy's role and human activity purpose as well as Socrates' defense as represented in Apolo...
In six pages this paper examines Socrates concept of love, then compares it with the contemporary interpretation before being inte...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares Plato's ideas regarding love with the views of Socrates and Aristophanes as expres...
Clouds by Aristophanes. Reasonably, Socrates points out that the character in the play speaks nonsense and should not be confused...
that love is beautiful and love is a god by showing them the true nature of love and the use love can be to humankind....
senate dinner, or basically a drinking party after the meal. Though it is certain that Plato took literary license with the dialog...
ideas. As we shall soon see, through these speeches Plato seems to have reasoned out how it is that mankind make their way from th...
she proved to me as I proved to him that, by my own showing, Love was neither fair nor good. " Here, the idea that love is powerfu...
In five pages this paper considers how Socrates may have delivered a speech regarding love with references made to Symposium by ...
between Psyche and her other two sisters was that Psyche was appreciably more beautiful than they. By all accounts, the sisters we...
that the story being told is one that has been re-told so often that it is little more than hearsay, and it is from this "story of...
In five pages this paper compares the views expressed by these authors regarding women's role and the infinite nature of love. Fi...
In five pages Socrates' concepts of ethics, piety, and justice are discussed as they are represented in Plato's Crito and Euthyp...
within the domestic sphere. Therefore, a Greek man typically took a younger male as his main love interest because only a man coul...
with sickness, or the pilot who helps friends against "the perils of the sea" (Plato Book I). He then inquires into "what sort of ...
a weapon to the hands of a madman is obviously unjust. Taylor (2003) comments on how this refutation of Cephalus position demonstr...
of quickness and penetration, piercing easily below the clumsy platitudes of Thrasymachus to the real difficulty; he turns out to ...
from the fact that I realized that I knew nothing. A man of my era named Chaerephon once asked the Oracle at Delphi is there w...
In six pages this paper considers Plato's text in its representation of the evil and unhappiness of the 'unjust' according to Socr...
In eight pages this research paper examines reason as practically used by Socrates during his last days in his Crito dialogue. Fo...
Since approximately 700 B. C., astronomy had a great deal to do with keeping time (PG). Natural periods of time were generated th...
In six pages this paper examines the Greek concept of eros or love as it is portrayed in these works by Plato and Hippolytus with ...
as a teacher, is to free his students from the cave and metaphorically drag them into the sunlight. The selection from Phaedo reco...
if "what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting like a good or bad man" ("Apology" 28b)(Plato 32-33). In regards to how ...
who, even for women, is feminine perforce" (Hoff, 1997, p. 215). Indeed, Platos Symposium exemplifies the need for virtue w...
In six pages this paper discusses how Plato's Euthyphro would be received by Hume and Kant in a consideration of family duty, love...
In five pages this essay contrasts and compares the views on forms held by Plato as critiqued by Aristotle with references made to...
In eight pages this paper examines Socrates' life and philosophy as represented in the Five Dialogues of Plato. Four sources are ...