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can one know what is beautiful or what is ugly? There must be some sort of shared experience. Plato uses a cave allegory--somethi...

In seven pages the cave allegory featured in Plato's Republic is applied to contemporary U.S. political leadership. Four sources ...

soul, as imaged by Plato, is made up of the qualities of reason, spirit and desire or appetite (Honderich, et al, 1995). The "reas...

in order to be just. Many are familiar with the tales of Sodom and Gomorrah from the bible. They understand that many cities had ...

brought against me, and with my earliest accusers, and then with the later ones" (Plato, 1961, 18b). First, Socrates has been acc...

knew nothing and was far from wise, he sets upon a course of action to find someone wiser than himself to offer to the Oracle as r...

three characters (a stranger from Athens; Cleinias, from Crete; and Megillus, a Lacedaemonian) are discussing their various types ...

suggest that both love and hate can be taught (Plato). We can further extrapolate from that to conclude that if a nation is in har...

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...

fundamental importance in the Republic of the metaphor of descent and its connection to the two great themes of birth and death, a...

the lyrics in modern songs, and in essence, the poets of today are Eminem and Jay Zee and Beyonce. Lyrics to emanate from these ar...

most part. He was clearly setting himself up as some sort of martyr or individual who would ultimately bring about change to the s...

thought that the Theory of Forms was useless when it came to explaining the material world "because the connection between the two...

if he has acquired the knowledge he could not have acquired it in this life, unless he has been taught geometry; for he may be mad...

for which they are talented. Here, it is thought that the rulers who are willing to rule, who go into the cave, who are vocal, are...

could be products of society, but never the causes, or it would alter the objectivity of sociology as a science (Hamilton, 1995). ...

possible fat man in that doorway; and again, the possible bald man in that doorway. Are they the same possible men, or two possibl...

ghost, a phantom-true, but no real breath of life" (23.122-23). This minimal survival apparently depends on the appropriate funera...

unison (Rosen, 2005). Plato (1996) writes: "Is not the community of pleasure and pain the tie that binds? The sharing, to the grea...

is clear that each of them has some wish in his mind that he cant articulate; instead, like an oracle, he half-grasps what he want...

in order to insure passage to the underworld. The Underworld in this mythology was not a particularly happy place; it was a gloomy...

truly understand Gods word: "I ask Thee, my God: pardon my sins, and as Thou didst grant to Thy servant to speak those words, gran...

wish, they have other freedoms that are perhaps not as obvious. Brave New World supports the hedonistic view. That is, Huxley (199...

for the student of psychology to develop a well-rounded and complete understanding of the discipline, it is necessary to study bot...

18). The words of Buddha were not written down until several centuries after his death and the first divisions within Buddhist b...

so that his assets could be pro-created and he could be put to death. Will Socrates did refuse the request, he simply went home ra...

of law as it has manifest in the place of which he writes about. There is some action in this work. Yet, what the action is compr...

"...no man will benefit from his profession unless he is paid as well" (Plato, 2003, p.28). One can easily see that Plato does not...

two or three weeks, so that they will get hooked" (Srinivasan, 2005). Indian programmers are indeed being "hooked" and the compan...

significant reason society is its own opposing force. Moreover, subjects of the omnipotent Leviathan are morally responsible for ...