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

bodies in its past, the King confidently reassured his ailing people, "My search has found one way to treat our disease - and I ha...

inseminated, and so forth. Technology has had a way of impinging on morality, and today, there is a sense that part of the process...

of souls (Frost 104). It is possible that Plato was attempting to use popular belief to promote the teaching of more profound trut...

idea that juvenile offenders needed to be handled different from adult offenders; as the goal was to retrain the child toward more...

kill him; but most of all he fears that he will not find his treasure-this might all be for nothing (Coehlo, 1995, p. 130). The A...

a product of how "own imperfect understanding of nature, of our ignorance of how to harmonize our activities with the worlds scrip...

a man who has a prophecy following him, and he is a man who is relatively clueless about what is going on. He inadvertently kills ...

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

is great interest. Plato looks at all of these things in his book The Republic. In Book I, justice is discussed and it is deemed ...

"Oedipus the King" (The Classics Pages: Antigone). Before Oedipus came onto the scene it seems that Creon may well have had a ch...

hard we try to turn it aside. As far as ironic speeches, the play is full of them, but two that we can consider are at lines 59-6...

resides in Thebes. Oedipus demands that someone come forward with information. When no one comes, Oedipus puts a curse on whoever ...

even harder to achieve. This paper considers some of the principles of justice theories, how they differ from utilitarianism, how ...

end Oedipus discovers all the truths and offers himself up to be banished, as was the plan in relationship to whoever killed the k...

heroine is willing to risk her life by defying King Creon in order to give her warrior brother Polynices the proper burial he was ...

about the boundaries and concerns of civil, political and religious justice, such as where the jurisdiction of the state can be de...

little less than a monster, sentences her to death; specifically, she is to be buried alive. Antigone and Haemon, who is Creons ...

plague wreaks death and despair onto the Theban people, Oedipus pride motivates him to make a deal whereby he reveals the identity...

decreed a heros burial for Eteocles, but that no one, on pain of death, can offer funeral rites for Polynices and that his body sh...

was to start writing down all the things he could remember that Socrates had said, writing down conversations he had hear and also...

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is to preserve the "state," that is the authority of the state, as opposed to having genuine feeling for the welfare of the people...

intelligent man, a man of integrity, and a man who is willing to seek answers, even if those answers point to him as the problem. ...

deed in this our present trouble, I care not to prolong the span of life, Thus ill-reputed; for the calumny Hits not a single blot...

could well be said that his acceptance of his brothers actions, despite his berating his brother, may have been the most important...

responsibility; friendship; work; courage; perseverance; honesty; loyalty; and faith" (Muehlenberg, 1999). Bennett uses a number o...

consequence. Her grief is obviously great even though the event was decades ago. She tells Oedipus, "...my son/ he wasnt three day...

different aspects of individual virtue can be seen to be included. Meno offers the suggestion that virtue can be defined as the wi...

works into three central periods: namely, early, middle and late and the Republic is generally regarded as a middle period work (W...