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84). However, Socrates is willing to concede that an individual can desire an evil thing if he mistakenly first evaluates it as go...

is supplemented by innate elements of the intellect (DeLouth, 2002). This theory keyed into the nature-nurture debate. Skipping ...

a body" (Aristotle), Plato illustrates his inability to see beyond mankinds mortal connection, opting instead to focus upon a deci...

top the list. The Catholic Church is often quoted as having said, "Give me a child until he is seven and he will always be Catholi...

(2002) argument is based on his experiences as first a federal prosecutor, then a trial judge, and finally a California Superior C...

the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...

wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves social needs. A number of philosophers have contributed to the debate which...

for, but for which there were certainly problems. People too easily give up on it. In his work entitled The History of the Pelopon...

also believed in one realm. Spinoza writes: "By God, I mean a Being absolutely infinite -- that is, a substance consisting in inf...

can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees it as symbolic of humans o...

subject of forms. While Plato held a dual realms theory, Aristotle saw form and matter as existing in the same realm. In discussi...

In ten pages this tutorial paper imagines a lively dialogue between political philosophers including St. Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle...

who will eventually hold office and decide what to pursue in respect to issues like abortion, stem cell research and capital punis...

human being for a short span of time. The cave allegory is quite well known and has been used by many to interpret Platos philosop...

Ulman, 2005, PG). In order to construct a successful argument for a particular position, therefore, one has to first amass th...

This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...

of science there are two branches which are epistemology and metaphysics (Honderich, 1995). Science makes up an important part of ...

that is permanent and immutable. It is this world that is more real; the world of change is merely an imperfect image of this worl...

Christ. The polytheistic society of ancient Greece was already moving toward belief in a single god by the time of Plato and his ...

(Saxonhouse, 1998). This is something thought not to lead to violence, but rather to a profound gentleness (Saxonhouse, 1998). In ...

as a teacher, is to free his students from the cave and metaphorically drag them into the sunlight. The selection from Phaedo reco...

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

have been utilized in both historical and contemporary politics: (a) The use of diplomacy and the formation of coalitions; (b) Vio...

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

rich this indicates why he sees a democracy as a deviant state as it is argued that the poor will be the dominant influence on the...

self-destruction. Socrates proposes many people in the simple city would not be satisfied forever with a simple way of life (Pla...

idea that concepts and forms had to begin somewhere. How does one know that they are looking at a pink, or a red, or a blue item? ...

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

of the United States. Without the philosophies of those that lived in the centuries prior to the U.S. Declaration of Independence...

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