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In seven pages this paper examines Plato's Phaedo and The Republic in terms of how it portrays the philosopher's perspectives on d...

In five pages this paper compares modern science's concept of reality with Plato's Theory of Forms and how they relate to understa...

This paper compares and contrasts Machiavelli's The Prince and Plato's Republic. This eight page paper has seven sources listed in...

In a paper consisting of three pages Socrates' philosophy that men should always act justly is in stark contrast to Machiavelli's ...

In five pages a comparison and contrast of how these philosophers perceived political leadership are made by noting the difference...

concepts that are far beyond his level of comprehension, only to ultimately be able to process the information. To reach true m...

he had dragged him out into the light of the sun" he would be distressed. For Socrates, the world above ground represents the othe...

yet does not lose faith in the just and true" (Plato Jowett Translation Characters). In this we see that Plato appears to be indic...

is a case for communism at least for the lower classes. The supporting premises for that conclusion have already been noted and ge...

to be transcendent elements sent to teach important lessons turns out to be nothing more than images cast from puppets whose shado...

role of rhetoric within the political arena. Therefore, "Rhetoric is the expressed genre of the second grammatical person" (545)....

In five pages this paper examines political rule in a consideration of knowledge, wisdom, and morality in Plato's The Republic. T...

In six pages this paper examines the just society quest as philosophically considered by John Stuart Mill in 'On Liberty,' Jean Ja...

In five pages analogy is defined and then related to these two philosophers as they are used in Rousseau's The Social Contract and...

In six pages arguments which dispute Plato's theory of ideas or forms as represented in The Republic are presented. Four sources ...

In five pages the way in which Aristotle perceived the golden mean as described in Politics is discussed and also compared with Th...

then, accompanied by proof, it can therefore be called knowledge. He seems to move in circles a bit with this assertion, in that ...

of quickness and penetration, piercing easily below the clumsy platitudes of Thrasymachus to the real difficulty; he turns out to ...

the soul. What the mind or soul once knew is raised to present awareness by a process of recollection aided by the technique of di...

In a type of author/character debate, Plato explores the premises of his theory by having Socrates debate them. Plato theorized ...

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...

would Hobbes be accepted in todays world? Would he fit in at all? These and other questions loom large. Still, each in their own w...

This paper discusses different parts of Plato's Republic. There is a discussion of natural law legal theory and legal positivist t...

is no realistic political system, for it takes considerably more than one mans word to impart a true sense of unity. "Thus, for y...

like Hades and the underworld; Tiresias the blind seer; and other references to death and dying (Plato). They decide they have to...

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...

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...

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...