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In five pages this paper examines Socrates' arguments regarding capital punishment and the sophist foundation that cements them....
in violation of the law and acknowledged that he should be punished accordingly. His "apology" was not a request for forgiveness,...
In eight pages this research paper examines reason as practically used by Socrates during his last days in his Crito dialogue. Fo...
Plato demonstrates Socratess reason for remaining imprisoned even though he had opportunity to escape and the Phaedo addresses phi...
as its model. Things are intellectually and emotionally captured by the understanding, not by the senses. The "Forms" of Things ...
of the perceptions of others. It is only the question of whether or not seeming and being are one in the same or whether there is...
In six pages this paper considers the self interest and justice arguments of Thrasymachus and Socrates in The Republic. One sourc...
of life, Socrates contends that reason is as well. Socrates considers the difference between those things that can be understood ...
or so it might seem. But when they return; of course, they are blinded. They may know all and they may have seen all-- but perhaps...
In five pages this paper analyzes truth in these works in a consideration of the axiological, ontological, and epistemological arg...
In five pages this argumentative essay employs these philosophical writings in support of the notion that the worst type of govern...
inseparable from its body, or at any rate that certain parts of it are" (Aristotle "On the Soul" 21). Aristotles view of the soul...
In seven pages this paper presents a comparative analysis of these theorists' philosophies and how each of them would critique the...
In five pages these philosophers' views on the physical elements of fire, water, earth, and air are contrasted and compared. Five...
In seven pages these works are compared in reveal the three ways in which the Christian author of the 20th century may have been i...
Rule, was developed as a handbook for new monks entering his order. There are a number of chapters in the rule, most of which pert...
text in which he is painstakingly honest, demonstrates that his spiritual path was not easy. It is clear from the beginning that t...
deep down, but on the surface they are essentially chained and shackled. They are in the dark about a lot of things because they c...
Victorinus by Plato. This seems to have moved Augustine from the point of simply musing about immortality into an assurance about ...
soul has two principal parts. The first part of this argument is that nature inevitably follows a cyclical pattern. All vegetatio...
that can be grasped with the human mind, but not with human senses (Gill, 1996,p. 1). The first part of the Parmenides, Plato has...
advent of history. When women were allowed to work in the factories during World War II, it was found that the women were actually...
being" (Burnham, 2001). In order for our universe to have taken on the form that it has, it has been necessary, according t...
when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." And, for 20th century Catholic theologian Josef Pieper (1904-97), Gods role in...
In eight pages the philosophies of these great ancient Greek thinkers on these topics are examined with terms including peitho, ag...
In five pages this paper examines concepts featured in 'Myth of the Cave' and The Apology and also considers 'The Death of Ivan Il...
of the United States. Without the philosophies of those that lived in the centuries prior to the U.S. Declaration of Independence...
here, but Platos position that it is necessary to experience a thing in order to have knowledge of it informs the reading of The R...
influential thinkers of the ancient age. Despite their obvious inter-related lives, they still had significantly differing opinio...
body defines justice that makes it so. Therefore, as Plato points out, rulers must be able to distinguish between justice or inju...