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Essays 481 - 510
noble. Socrates was doing the right thing. Today, as people wrestle with unjust rules and laws, there are some who simply follow ...
off than those who remain in the cave. Before delving into an analysis, it pays to explore the allegory as laid out by Plato. Wh...
like Hades and the underworld; Tiresias the blind seer; and other references to death and dying (Plato). They decide they have to...
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...
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 ...
a weapon to the hands of a madman is obviously unjust. Taylor (2003) comments on how this refutation of Cephalus position demonstr...
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 ...
individual to the spiritual and the universe. According to the scala amoris, then, love is that which in its highest and purest se...
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...
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...
(Washington State University, 2004). Plato asserts that our perceptions are essentially "shadows" of real objects. In ot...
of death, as well as the mystery of death. This establishes a foundation from which we can learn, especially considering that Nula...
ideas. As we shall soon see, through these speeches Plato seems to have reasoned out how it is that mankind make their way from th...
In a paper of thirteen pages, the writer looks at classical texts by Francis Bacon and Plato. The allegory of the cave and the fou...
also supported what was known as the Theory of Ideas, which mainly stated that archetypal ideas (which rest in the universal)(Plan...
character of the leader nor of his ability to lead. The book is essentially about how a leader can be at his best. While it is tru...
only thing that is known is what is presently occurring. In other words, if something is out of ones eyesight and experience, it i...
student sees in relationship to what the image can present: "but of the ideas which they resemble; not of the figures which they d...
various experiences are provided by Socrates and the others. In some way, the work examines the idea of power. After all, if someo...
the individual and a definition of justice. There are three classes for the state to function properly: artisans, who are skilled ...
In ten pages this paper compares contemporary Christianity and the writings of Alan Jones and Paul Tillich with the Theory of Form...
In seven pages justice as conceptualized by philosophers John Rawls and Plato is contrasted and compared. Six sources are cited i...
In ten pages the political theory and government structural views of Thomas Hobbes and Plato are compared and contrasted as they a...
In six pages this paper contrasts and compares the philosophical views of Hobbes and Plato regarding the state and democracy as re...
works into three central periods: namely, early, middle and late and the Republic is generally regarded as a middle period work (W...
motives of ambition -- it has no name in common use that I know of; let us call it timarchy or timocracy -- and then go on to ol...