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So for Plato, this idea extended into both personal and political ramifications. He reasoned that when an individual was doing th...

individual to the spiritual and the universe. According to the scala amoris, then, love is that which in its highest and purest se...

(Washington State University, 2004). Plato asserts that our perceptions are essentially "shadows" of real objects. In ot...

are afraid because ignorant, and perceive the pain and not the benefits; nor do they apprehend that a sick soul is worse than a si...

of death, as well as the mystery of death. This establishes a foundation from which we can learn, especially considering that Nula...

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...

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...

This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...

n.d.). Plato did talk about God, in Timaeus, Plato said that if God made the world as perfect then the soul must be perfect, also ...

humans cannot readily draw on the human collective conscious, or the knowledge that exists in the universe, they had a glimpse of ...

In a paper that consists of eight pages Plato's interpretation of the soul and its parts are explored along with a discussion of t...

people must strive for a knowledge that only comes from being true to ones own choice. According to Plato, men and women both hav...

off than those who remain in the cave. Before delving into an analysis, it pays to explore the allegory as laid out by Plato. Wh...

noble. Socrates was doing the right thing. Today, as people wrestle with unjust rules and laws, there are some who simply follow ...

and with that has come an interest in spirituality itself, outside of any religious context. It is this search for a truth that m...

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

what was passing in the world around them, to the realm of re-presentative intellect. An external phenomenon is thus translated i...

the physical in a dramatic and practical way. While Aristotle saw the heart as just a physical organ, he had an idea that seemed t...

like knowledge itself, is secure. Indeed, according to Plato correct opinion is a guide to knowledge. To be correct, opinions th...

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

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...

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...

the preexistence of the soul, and the separate existence of forms work together or not? Thats a lot of questions to tackle, and to...

has many flaws. There is question as to whether or not the method really gets to the truth at all. In fact, one has to wonder whet...

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

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...

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

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