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fundamental importance in the Republic of the metaphor of descent and its connection to the two great themes of birth and death, a...

has many flaws. There is question as to whether or not the method really gets to the truth at all. In fact, one has to wonder whet...

most part. He was clearly setting himself up as some sort of martyr or individual who would ultimately bring about change to the s...

the lyrics in modern songs, and in essence, the poets of today are Eminem and Jay Zee and Beyonce. Lyrics to emanate from these ar...

the preexistence of the soul, and the separate existence of forms work together or not? Thats a lot of questions to tackle, and to...

knew nothing and was far from wise, he sets upon a course of action to find someone wiser than himself to offer to the Oracle as r...

three characters (a stranger from Athens; Cleinias, from Crete; and Megillus, a Lacedaemonian) are discussing their various types ...

suggest that both love and hate can be taught (Plato). We can further extrapolate from that to conclude that if a nation is in har...

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...

only thing that is known is what is presently occurring. In other words, if something is out of ones eyesight and experience, it i...

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

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

yet does not lose faith in the just and true" (Plato Jowett Translation Characters). In this we see that Plato appears to be indic...

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...

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

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 ...

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

laborers, domestic servants, families - all made the monumental decision to search out a better life. Regardless of the quest for ...

to Locke. Locke was able to succinctly describe and honor the Enlightenment in his belief in the middle class and its right to fre...

Plato's Euthyphro is employed in this paper consisting of eight pages in order to explore the roots of godly piety and this tutori...

should also make note of how "King Rat" calls attention to the limits of administration and the influence of the political realm w...

In five pages this paper discusses how Socrates' principles are presented in Plato's Protagoras and then provides a comparison wit...

role of rhetoric within the political arena. Therefore, "Rhetoric is the expressed genre of the second grammatical person" (545)....

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 a paper consisting of three pages Socrates' philosophy that men should always act justly is in stark contrast to Machiavelli's ...

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...

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