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In five pages this essay examines the mind and soul dichotomy as conceptualized by Socrates and represented by Plato in Apology an...

A 13 page paper overview of the book by Jacques Barzun. The impact of this book on the author of the paper is emphasized. 1 sour...

authors address the same topic, but in very different ways. Taylors approach has a more simplistic, general approach, since his ...

In five pages this paper presents an overview of The Second Sickness by Howard Waitzkin and discusses the various issues the autho...

This 9 page essay reviews the book by Judith Rich Harris. Divorce is one of the most powerful elements in this book. 7 sources....

misunderstood intentions can also influence communications styles. Add an indirect style of communication, more a tool used by wo...

the two philosophers arose from the manifestation that Gorgias was forever attempting to read between the lines of what Socrates h...

In ten pages this paper considers the Wellness Letter of University of California at Berkeley's review of the text in an assessmen...

This 7 page paper compares Alexie's 1993 book with the Chris Eyre 1998 book that was inspired by the film and its representation o...

most significant cons, according to critics, is President Bushs imperialist implication. Since the events of October 11th, Presid...

are afraid because ignorant, and perceive the pain and not the benefits; nor do they apprehend that a sick soul is worse than a si...

a person even know if those opinions are really yours or the opinions of others which you have adopted as your own without testing...

this, then, there are two very different interpretations of the movies effectiveness and its cinematography. And, yet, it achieved...

also wrote that one could live justly only if they lived in a just society (Beck, n.d.). Plato had a number of caveats about a jus...

interlocutor" which is consistent with the importance he places on self-knowledge as a way to attain good and happiness. Callicles...

Although biblical, the story provides a warning in that perhaps a little knowledge can be harmful. Another point of view is that k...

background, the points which Gray (2001) makes are surprising to say the least. Gray (2001) sees the war we as a society are wagi...

Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More. Puffin This particular chapter from the book chronicles the various personalities ...

In six pages this paper analyzes the contention of Socrates that an 'unexamined life is not worth living' as this view is represen...

They are, instead, robot-like in that they do what they are told and do not question the validity of the teachings. Instead, peopl...

past, particularly those which occurred in totalitarian regimes that could not tolerate scrutiny any closer than that which it alr...

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

"Metamorphoses" and Socrates "Apology". While "Apology" is Platos account of Socrates trial and ultimate death it is also...

new ideas. The body supplies the means by which knowledge can be attained, for it is necessary, according to Plato, for things an...

(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...

address the problems of individualism in our contemporary society. While Wests "Race Matters" makes a frontal attack on these pro...

security, but also this relationship was a source of stability politically. This event then had a great deal to do with the postw...

profit than seeking knowledge. The schools headmaster was Socrates, and Strepsiades hopes that Phidippides will be able to apply ...

words, "how does one KNOW that this is the truth". Most of Socrates teaching took place on the steps of a Lyceum, much like an a...