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

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

terms of a high human being, one may contend that it is the spiritual being--the priests, the rabbis, the ministers--who are reall...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

In six pages this creative essay examines an event in which a college student had to defend beliefs and this experience is related...

What was established as the first recognized law came from the fact that revenge played a big role in societys unruliness. As it ...

do good, not evil to their friends (Plato, 2002). As this indicates, Polemarchus works hard to defend his fathers "rule of thumb...

impious act. Euthyphro replies to Socrates claiming "I am amused, Socrates, at your making a distinction between one who is a re...

In six pages good and evil are examined along with Plato's assertion that evil is not knowingly committed by man. There are no ot...

close relationships over great distances and for a long period of time, indefinitely, even with separations and loss of contact" (...

pleas, Socrates will not hear of any escape plans. He points out that, even though the sentence was unjust, it was perfectly legal...

theory of "seeing is believing" and that something must be touched in order to be a reality. According to Goellnitz, one s...

role in this respect. Plato held that the key agent in any sort of behavior but especially ethical or moral behavior (or lack of t...

works into three central periods: namely, early, middle and late and the Republic is generally regarded as a middle period work (W...

was that they were certain and immutable. Also, knowledge must have as its objective that which is genuinely real as compared to t...

attempt to free themselves. What he has realized is that what they had seen all along on the wall of the cave were mere representa...

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...

Socrates ideas. He states that he will be Euthyphros student in these matters. Of course, it would seem that Socrates is being a b...

then, accompanied by proof, it can therefore be called knowledge. He seems to move in circles a bit with this assertion, in that ...

In eight pages this paper defends Plato's assertion regarding the immortality of the human soul with references made to his text P...

This 5 page paper examines the way in which one can use the Socratic method to find the truth. The writer also discusses the conce...