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Essays 481 - 510
In seven pages the cave allegory featured in Plato's Republic is applied to contemporary U.S. political leadership. Four sources ...
This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...
reaching true conclusions and therefore may use their knowledge of language and logic to confuse the average person on the issues ...
between the citizens. Taken together, the guardians are people who are skilled in governing certain areas. However, these two type...
with sickness, or the pilot who helps friends against "the perils of the sea" (Plato Book I). He then inquires into "what sort of ...
So for Plato, this idea extended into both personal and political ramifications. He reasoned that when an individual was doing th...
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...
profit than seeking knowledge. The schools headmaster was Socrates, and Strepsiades hopes that Phidippides will be able to apply ...
In six pages this paper analyzes the contention of Socrates that an 'unexamined life is not worth living' as this view is represen...
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...
how ones intellect cannot be considered a gender. In other words, intelligence is intelligence regardless of where it is housed. ...
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...
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...
student sees in relationship to what the image can present: "but of the ideas which they resemble; not of the figures which they d...
also supported what was known as the Theory of Ideas, which mainly stated that archetypal ideas (which rest in the universal)(Plan...
terms of a high human being, one may contend that it is the spiritual being--the priests, the rabbis, the ministers--who are reall...
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...
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 ...
only thing that is known is what is presently occurring. In other words, if something is out of ones eyesight and experience, it i...
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...
In six pages a work of Plato is compared with the Christian writer C.S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters. Two sources are cited in t...
to Locke. Locke was able to succinctly describe and honor the Enlightenment in his belief in the middle class and its right to fre...
upon expressing an objective truth. For example, approving of an action and stating that the action is right can be construed as ...
In six pages these societies are contrasted and compares as they relate to philosophies expressed in the Bible and the writings of...
In ten pages this paper compares contemporary Christianity and the writings of Alan Jones and Paul Tillich with the Theory of Form...