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

Kerry further thinks that due to the demands foisted on the nation by the presence of a new global economy, all children must rea...

individual to the spiritual and the universe. According to the scala amoris, then, love is that which in its highest and purest se...

and with that has come an interest in spirituality itself, outside of any religious context. It is this search for a truth that m...

In a type of author/character debate, Plato explores the premises of his theory by having Socrates debate them. Plato theorized ...

In a paper that consists of eight pages Plato's interpretation of the soul and its parts are explored along with a discussion of t...

This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...

in order to be just. Many are familiar with the tales of Sodom and Gomorrah from the bible. They understand that many cities had ...

soul, as imaged by Plato, is made up of the qualities of reason, spirit and desire or appetite (Honderich, et al, 1995). The "reas...

to be transcendent elements sent to teach important lessons turns out to be nothing more than images cast from puppets whose shado...

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

So for Plato, this idea extended into both personal and political ramifications. He reasoned that when an individual was doing th...

of growing social concerns. As such, the impact and theories developed about human development and growth, as well as the learning...

human being from conception to death is encapsulated in a pod. In Platos Cave the only thing that they can see is...

reaching true conclusions and therefore may use their knowledge of language and logic to confuse the average person on the issues ...

to the outside, the cave becomes a type of conduit, or birth canal which brings him into the life of actual knowledge. What one ca...

between the citizens. Taken together, the guardians are people who are skilled in governing certain areas. However, these two type...

is no realistic political system, for it takes considerably more than one mans word to impart a true sense of unity. "Thus, for y...

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...

how ones intellect cannot be considered a gender. In other words, intelligence is intelligence regardless of where it is housed. ...

from the fact that I realized that I knew nothing. A man of my era named Chaerephon once asked the Oracle at Delphi is there w...

of death, as well as the mystery of death. This establishes a foundation from which we can learn, especially considering that Nula...

at once managed for himself to become one of the envoys to the king ; upon arrival, having seduced his wife, with her help, he lai...

poet of nature. For example, "The instinct of Wordsworth was to interpret all the operations of nature by those of his own strenuo...

philosophical thought begs to differ. In the pre-Plato period, for example, the prevailing belief was that pleasure was immediate ...

have merit, they are essentially inapplicable to our contemporary concerns regarding knowledge. In other words, while knowledge m...

a humans body. It sought to find pleasure and to find sustenance. "These appetites should not be allowed, to enslave the other ele...

"the poem asserts that the only resolution in the modern world is irresolution. Hence, The Triumph of Life becomes a latter-day at...

change and that personality stays the same. In order to comprehend why this is not the case, and understand the thesis which also ...

know what they, themselves, look like. One day, one of the people breaks free from the chains and makes it back to the outside o...