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In nine pages this paper examines Plato's polis design as featured in The Republic in an analysis of the significance he places up...
for an impartial judge; one who would not be swayed by public opinion and "hype" to pre-judge the tyrant. With themselves a...
In order to effectively answer this, they decide on the necessity for an impartial judge who could not be made to choose a biased ...
they have the capacity to attain a happy, or perfect, life. Essential to the perfect polis is the individuals capacity to strive ...
This paper compares and contrasts Machiavelli's The Prince and Plato's Republic. This eight page paper has seven sources listed in...
In five pages this paper examines Socrates' dialogue with Thrasymachus and considers his concept of justice as described in Plato'...
In a paper consisting of three pages Socrates' philosophy that men should always act justly is in stark contrast to Machiavelli's ...
In seven pages this paper discusses the many components and perspectives on justice utilizing the categorical imperative of Immanu...
In five pages the way in which Aristotle perceived the golden mean as described in Politics is discussed and also compared with Th...
In six pages this paper examines the just society quest as philosophically considered by John Stuart Mill in 'On Liberty,' Jean Ja...
In twelve pages Plato's dialogues The Republic, Phaedrus, and Gorgias are examined in an analysis of how the philosopher conceptua...
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...
has Socrates presented with various definitions of justice. Socrates is always opposed to any rule or definition that can be appli...
do good, not evil to their friends (Plato, 2002). As this indicates, Polemarchus works hard to defend his fathers "rule of thumb...
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 two pages this paper considers Plato's use of tetralogy organization in an overview of Books I and II of The Republic. There a...
In five pages this paper examines Plato's views on human nature as they are presented in The Republic with the 'Good City,' societ...
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 ...
is a case for communism at least for the lower classes. The supporting premises for that conclusion have already been noted and ge...
yet does not lose faith in the just and true" (Plato Jowett Translation Characters). In this we see that Plato appears to be indic...
concepts that are far beyond his level of comprehension, only to ultimately be able to process the information. To reach true m...
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...
a weapon to the hands of a madman is obviously unjust. Taylor (2003) comments on how this refutation of Cephalus position demonstr...
In a type of author/character debate, Plato explores the premises of his theory by having Socrates debate them. Plato theorized ...
in order to be just. Many are familiar with the tales of Sodom and Gomorrah from the bible. They understand that many cities had ...
soul, as imaged by Plato, is made up of the qualities of reason, spirit and desire or appetite (Honderich, et al, 1995). The "reas...