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For Socrates, and consequently Plato, the great business of life was conversation. He sought out everyone, and seizing upon some e...

In six pages this paper discusses virtue and whether or not it is possible to teach in a consideration of the dialogue between Men...

This essay discusses Robert Bolt's play that relates the life of Thomas More, A Man For All Seasons. The writer compares More's he...

that love is beautiful and love is a god by showing them the true nature of love and the use love can be to humankind....

youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...

is good (Frost 84). For Socrates, "a life which is always inquiring and trying to discover what is good is the best kind of life, ...

time. And, he was not content to attempt to dispel theories of old, but was also one to attempt the disruption of more modern appr...

Socrates ideas. He states that he will be Euthyphros student in these matters. Of course, it would seem that Socrates is being a b...

best and brightest citizens." After the candidates shake hands, the moderator presented the first topic for debate, that of taxat...

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

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...

own life? Not all philosophers would agree with the path he ultimately chose. First, it is important to keep in mind that practi...

for Plato and are directly related to that capacity of understanding. Physical things of the world must, of necessity, have bodily...

classes in the State severally did their own business; and also thought to be temperate and valiant and wise by reason of certain ...

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

support for the notion that people must obey the laws of the place in which they are born. How is this accomplished? Aristotle d...

to shake off these social controls and become the master rather than the slave. This, he argues, is the true justice of nature: la...

no matter how insignificant or trite they may seem. However, it would seem that he believed that there were at least two types of ...

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

that Pericles was a man who felt a powerful sense of duty to his city. He was, after all, an official who stood as one who support...

the amount of knowledge that anyone has very little to do with doing things that are wrong. Now, understandably, we can see wher...

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...

do good, not evil to their friends (Plato, 2002). As this indicates, Polemarchus works hard to defend his fathers "rule of thumb...

In this paper consisting of twenty pages questions regarding such influential philosophers as Robert Nozick, Mary Daly, the Stoics...

In seven pages this paper examines the religious views of Socrates as described by Plato in Apology with the focus being upon hi...

In eight pages this report examines Socrates from several perspectives including his discussion of issues with Crito and Euthyphro...

In four pages this paper examines how beauty and love were conceptualized by Socrates as portrayed in Symposium by Plato through i...

In five pages this paper discusses ideology and religion in a consideration of similarities and differences with Karl Marx and Soc...

In six pages this paper assesses whether or not Socrates was innocent or guilty of the crimes alleged by his accusers. Five sourc...

In five pages this paper examines the philosophical questions resulting from the dialogue between Meno and Socrates as presented i...