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Truth According to Plato in The Republic, Apology, and Crito

In eight pages this paper analyzes how Plato's methods as they involve truth are considered in an examination of this trio of dial...

The Republic by Plato and 'The Aeneid' by Virgil

Fact versus fiction is the focus of this analysis of theses classical texts in an essay consisting of two pages. There are no oth...

Republic by Plato and its Concepts

importance and children were to be guarded from superfluous information to come from for example poetry and literature. Rather, th...

Books V and VIII of The Republic by Plato

advent of history. When women were allowed to work in the factories during World War II, it was found that the women were actually...

Acting Justly and the Reasons for Doing So in The Republic by Plato

to be achieved. This scenario, by its very nature, assured the manifestation of orderliness and moderation rather than the less a...

Justice, Politics, and Knowledge According to Hobbes and Plato

Essentially, the allegory likens those who remain unaware of forms to prisoners chained in a cave, and they cannot turn their head...

Theories and Methods of Socrates and Plato

Brian Vickers portrays Plato as an intellectual Odysseus, stealthily stealing the rhetorical arsenal of the sophists and using it ...

Ideals of Plato and Contemporary Education

employee believes a child is abused, they must call the authorities. If a child has a fight in school, the latest trend is to file...

Plato's Influence On St. Augustine

can be found in many church doctrines today (Fisher, 2006). Augustine was a seeker of truth throughout his life (Smitha, 1998). H...

Reality According to Aristotle and Plato and Using the Philosophy of Parmenides

In five pages this research paper examines how Parmenides' Eleatic philosophy was used by Aristotle and Plato as a way for reality...

Philosophy as the Practice of Death by Plato as Evaluated by Descartes

This research report looks at how Descartes would feel about Plato's ideas. Would he agree with Plato in his ideas about death? Th...

Niccolo Machiavelli and Plato

In nine pages this report compares the philosophies on human nature as conceptualized by Niccolo Machiavelli and Plato with Plato'...

Politics According to Plato and Aristotle

In five pages the differing political views between Plato and his one time philosophy student Aristotle are discussed with Plato's...

First World I Role of Germany

for example seemed to have been swept into a war which it would ultimately lose. But in a sense, Germany can be seen as the aggres...

Adolf Hitler's Rise and the Role Played by the Weimar Republic

In five pages this report considers the German Weimar Republic's role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power. Three sources are cited in...

Dominican Republic's Twenty First Century Population Growth Interpretation

In five pages this paper discusses the Dominican Republic's growth in population projected for 2000, 2025, and 2050 in terms of ho...

Roman Republic

primary motivator behind this move, inasmuch as the farmer-soldiers and farmer-veterans did not believe they were receiving their ...

Forms, Immortal Soul, and Defining Virtue in Phaedo and Meno by Plato

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

Philosophical Essay Applications

defines it as sort of a liveliness of vividness that accompanies the perception of a new idea. A belief, he says, is more than an...

Plato by Robert W. Hall

In five pages Plato by Robert W. Hall is analyzed. There are no other sources listed....

Philosophy's Role and Defense of Socrates in Apology by Plato

In two pages this paper examines philosophy's role and human activity purpose as well as Socrates' defense as represented in Apolo...

P.A. Brunt's The Roman Mob

In five pages this paper examines this text by P.A. Brunt and how the Roman Republic's transformation into an Empire was influence...

3 Theories on the Dissolution of Yugoslavia

the Cold War ended. For this reason, sovereign recognition was offered to all dissolving countries who agreed to the terms of the...

Soul's Immortality in Meno by Plato

In four pages this paper discusses the soul's immortality as represented in Socrates' arguments that are featured in Meno by Plato...

Nature of the Soul and the Theories in Phaedo by Plato

must pay for such without question. In Crito, we see Socrates pretending that the laws are coming to talk to him. They say to him...

France at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century

In five pages this paper considers such topics as reasons for the first French republic's failure, the commands Napoleon received,...

Ireland's Government

In six pages this paper considers Ireland's government in an overview that examines the roles of the republic's president and the ...

Theories of Plato versus Confucius' Analects in Lun Yü of K'ung Fu-Tzu

In eight pages this paper discusses social reformation in a contrast and comparison of the philosophies of Plato and Confucius....

Western History and the Divine Nature of God

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

Does Australia Need Constitutional Reform?

was a referendum that asked whether or not the electorate wanted to retain the Queen as the head of state, remaining a constitutio...