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if he has acquired the knowledge he could not have acquired it in this life, unless he has been taught geometry; for he may be mad...

thought that the Theory of Forms was useless when it came to explaining the material world "because the connection between the two...

fundamental importance in the Republic of the metaphor of descent and its connection to the two great themes of birth and death, a...

has many flaws. There is question as to whether or not the method really gets to the truth at all. In fact, one has to wonder whet...

knew nothing and was far from wise, he sets upon a course of action to find someone wiser than himself to offer to the Oracle as r...

the preexistence of the soul, and the separate existence of forms work together or not? Thats a lot of questions to tackle, and to...

she proved to me as I proved to him that, by my own showing, Love was neither fair nor good. " Here, the idea that love is powerfu...

three characters (a stranger from Athens; Cleinias, from Crete; and Megillus, a Lacedaemonian) are discussing their various types ...

suggest that both love and hate can be taught (Plato). We can further extrapolate from that to conclude that if a nation is in har...

brought against me, and with my earliest accusers, and then with the later ones" (Plato, 1961, 18b). First, Socrates has been acc...

most part. He was clearly setting himself up as some sort of martyr or individual who would ultimately bring about change to the s...

for which they are talented. Here, it is thought that the rulers who are willing to rule, who go into the cave, who are vocal, are...

could be products of society, but never the causes, or it would alter the objectivity of sociology as a science (Hamilton, 1995). ...

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

a weapon to the hands of a madman is obviously unjust. Taylor (2003) comments on how this refutation of Cephalus position demonstr...

n.d.). Plato did talk about God, in Timaeus, Plato said that if God made the world as perfect then the soul must be perfect, also ...

In seven pages the cave allegory featured in Plato's Republic is applied to contemporary U.S. political leadership. Four sources ...

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 ...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

of subjective satisfaction (Seifert, 2003). Moral goodness just is. One looks at a baby or a puppy and thinks that these living th...

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