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life fulfillment and that a disabled individual should be allowed to die because their quality of life will not allow them to find...

that the story being told is one that has been re-told so often that it is little more than hearsay, and it is from this "story of...

this pint he is, in essence, pleading for his life and states, "I dare say that you may feel irritated at being suddenly awakened ...

the best" (the literal definition of aristocracy) was to be achieved. This scenario, by its very nature, assured the manifestatio...

leg only" (Plato). If this were true, if there were only one process in regards to life-death, then everything would ultimately co...

the more metaphysical idea that the world of the present is known as the physical world that one is able to perceive using the sen...

Yet is it just to have such a rule in place? Furthermore is a just for a professional football team to be fined, simply because th...

is only preserved as a term of reproach" (Plato). He illustrates how the figures of men and women and the third figure were round ...

sported the slogan "Challenge Authority." To many, it had little meaning. That is because the majority of people are sheep. They d...

original thirteen colonies on which the new United States of America was founded removed their approval of being governed by the B...

Introduction The issues surrounding abortion are complex to say the least. People are polarized on the issue...

as well as the people. When one views the former President of the United States, Bill Clinton, for example, one hardly thinks ab...

that was determined by human will, in that people choose whether or not to keep their promises (Hobbes, 1982). Those that keep th...

he make it eternal anyway? Many people think of the universe as something that was eternal in the first place, irrespective of wha...

interprets the ideal of freedom and to what extent they live in their own psychological prisons. Social freedom means that one wil...

not go to reincarnation necessarily, but rather to the idea that death does not end life. On the other hand, New Ageism, Buddhism,...

be studied scientifically in order to derive the most rational, economic and efficient means of administering policy. The form is...

charges of impiety and corruption of youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens ("Socrates," 2003). While this ph...

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

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...

had to be obtained by directing the students mind toward the discovery of what is real and important, then allowing them to deduce...

of innate knowledge, he was adamant that nothing could be learned except through experience and sensory input: "How comes [the mi...

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...

believe. Deweys central thesis is rather controversial, but is seemingly valid, and has withstood the test of time. Indeed, Deweys...

the kings and philosophers -- should not have the right to bear children or even own their own property. This, he maintained, wou...

his argument to the priestess who taught him mysteries in his youth, Diotima of Mantinea. Attributing his words to Diotima, Socrat...

wine and pleasure, and rejecting the cold and structured nature of Apollonian society. For them, to be human is to follow ones bas...

she taught him that the journey of the soul is to go from the immediate experience of the everyday world and ascend into a realm t...

individual is just it is because each part of his or her soul performs its functions properly and does not interfere with the othe...

within the domestic sphere. Therefore, a Greek man typically took a younger male as his main love interest because only a man coul...