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In nine pages this paper examines how justice was represented by Plato in such works as The Laws, The Gorgias, and The Republic. ...

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares Plato's ideas regarding love with the views of Socrates and Aristophanes as expres...

In five pages this paper discusses the soul and its significance as conceptualized in the arguments of Plato and Sigmund Freud. F...

In seven pages justice as conceptualized by philosophers John Rawls and Plato is contrasted and compared. Six sources are cited i...

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

concert with personality and the physical life. Plato dissects the soul in his own unique way. He did claim that all things have...

of innate knowledge, he was adamant that nothing could be learned except through experience and sensory input: "How comes [the mi...

with sickness, or the pilot who helps friends against "the perils of the sea" (Plato Book I). He then inquires into "what sort of ...

inquiring and trying to discover what is good is the best kind of life, the only life worth living" (Frost, 1962, 84). As this de...

qualities in the face of conflict or challenge. "Deliberate effort and the taking of thoughtful pains are required...Education, a...

is not clear how the lower classes are expected to live (1993). It is also noted that while Plato makes a case for communism for ...

the individual and a definition of justice. There are three classes for the state to function properly: artisans, who are skilled ...

the audience; and finally, it must be complex (McManus, 1999). Complex here means the plot contains a "reversal of intention (peri...

Aristotle manages to come up with a provisional definition (Book II, Ch. 6, 1107a): Aret? is a state or condition of soul that is ...

weight, how to raise children properly and so forth. The majority of people are not much interested in deeper issues. One may rel...

When examining ethical theory and philosophies of hope, happiness is often at the forefront. It seems that the goal of most people...

make rash judgments. Also, there could very well be exceptions to this happiness rule. Why did Aristotle believe that reason is eq...

under them split asunder; and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and all the men that belonge...

had erred so completely, even though he did so unknowingly, his only recourse was to take his own life. In Fight Club, then, th...

In six pages this essay evaluates Miller's play based upon Aristotle's tragic components to conclude that Death of a Salesman is i...

philosopher, would aid in curtailing discord while broadening the trust that must exist between peoples. Using the Myth of ...

does seem that Aristotle aligned his thought about political order with the spiritual more than the practical. His ideas about the...

that school. He points out that the insight that Aristotle provides in "On the Soul" and "On the Generation of Animals" serves as...

achieve this level of human excellence by adhering to the fourteen axioms acts of Nicomachean Ethics, which included gentility, ho...

(2005) notes, if the audience considers that the source is speaking from an objective standpoint or from motives of altruism, then...

only one who is not happy. It is not as if the reader has to identify with him in order to understand the point, which is that no ...

should also be noted that persuasion is not synonymous with dogmatism: the speaker must acknowledge that opposing viewpoints exist...

explains that most men identify good, or happiness, with mere pleasure and that is the first type of life. Many are familiar with ...

Thought is Aristotles third category. McManus (1999) speculates that this category can be associated with what modern critics woul...

individual would grow up, kill his father, and marry his mother. In reality, few people would ever find themselves in such a circu...