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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...

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

philosophical thought begs to differ. In the pre-Plato period, for example, the prevailing belief was that pleasure was immediate ...

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

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

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...

know what they, themselves, look like. One day, one of the people breaks free from the chains and makes it back to the outside o...

have merit, they are essentially inapplicable to our contemporary concerns regarding knowledge. In other words, while knowledge m...

change and that personality stays the same. In order to comprehend why this is not the case, and understand the thesis which also ...

on this subject might want to explore various opinions on democracy and society. Socrates claimed that democracy--because it is ...

to the average man who does not embark on philosophical pursuits, and does not wonder how the world began but accepts the explanat...

call to action. Bruskin explains that "The essence of the period is that we were galvanized to do something." (32). While docume...

living" (Plato Crito 18-19). II. ABORTION To reach true happiness, Plato believed people must strive for a contentment tha...

senate dinner, or basically a drinking party after the meal. Though it is certain that Plato took literary license with the dialog...

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...

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

(Washington State University, 2004). Plato asserts that our perceptions are essentially "shadows" of real objects. In ot...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

noble. Socrates was doing the right thing. Today, as people wrestle with unjust rules and laws, there are some who simply follow ...

and with that has come an interest in spirituality itself, outside of any religious context. It is this search for a truth that m...

people must strive for a knowledge that only comes from being true to ones own choice. According to Plato, men and women both hav...

like knowledge itself, is secure. Indeed, according to Plato correct opinion is a guide to knowledge. To be correct, opinions th...

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

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...