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Metaphysics by Aristotle

In seven pages Aristotle's theories regarding metaphysics as described in his text are examined in terms of the ways one is chall...

The Life and Times of Empedocles

This paper examines the life and teachings of ancient Greek philosopher, scientist, poet, and physician, Empedocies. This three p...

Summary of Plato’s Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito

still perhaps not arriving at solid answers when his friend tells him he has to leave. Socrates tells him, "Alas! my companion, an...

Justice, Politics, and Knowledge According to Hobbes and Plato

Essentially, the allegory likens those who remain unaware of forms to prisoners chained in a cave, and they cannot turn their head...

Plato and Hegel Comparisons and Contrasts

In six pages the arguments of city vs. state, the individual, and soul and spirit that are raised in Hegel's Introduction to the P...

Theories of Forms According to Aristotle and Plato

In five pages this essay contrasts and compares the views on forms held by Plato as critiqued by Aristotle with references made to...

'On the Standard of Taste' by David Hume

would be clearly dependent upon the eye of the beholder. Therefore, the conclusions were not judgments, per se, but were response...

Comparative Analysis of Plato's, Hobbes' and Locke's Theories

would Hobbes be accepted in todays world? Would he fit in at all? These and other questions loom large. Still, each in their own w...

Was Socrates a Patriot or a Traitor?

tone and character with the description of Xenophon, who says in the Memorabilia that Socrates might have been acquitted if in any...

Niccolo Machiavelli and Plato

In nine pages this report compares the philosophies on human nature as conceptualized by Niccolo Machiavelli and Plato with Plato'...

Plato's Concepts and the Superiority of Aristotle

the physical in a dramatic and practical way. While Aristotle saw the heart as just a physical organ, he had an idea that seemed t...

The Early Christians and the Ancient Greeks Comparing Their Gods

Looking at Saint Augustine's 'Confessions' and Homer's 'The Iliad', the author finds characters and situations that represent the ...

Teaching Police Ethics

In thirty five pages various philosophers such as Pythagoras, Plato, John Stuart Mill, and Immanuel Kant are incorporated into an ...

Philosophers on Dualism

In five pages this paper considers what philosophers David Hume, Thomas Hobbes, Rene Descartes, and Plato have to say about the du...

Movies/Then & Now

theater environment, that is most often accused of encouraging crime. Then, as now, the majority of the people ignored the naysaye...

Aristotle, Plato, and the Influence of Socrates

as the Socratic dialogue that in many ways can be compared to todays constructivist approach to education in which he "drew forth ...

Sarte and Descartes Compared

approaches to subjectivity have been characterized by an overwhelming modern anxiety not to be Descartes (206). Descartes pictur...

Comparing and Contrasting Two Ancient Greek Vases

This 6 page paper compares and contrasts two Greek vases, one from the Archaic period and the other from the Late Geometric period...

Socrates, Plato, 'Allegory of the Cave' and Phaedo

as a teacher, is to free his students from the cave and metaphorically drag them into the sunlight. The selection from Phaedo reco...

Philosophy as the Practice of Death by Plato as Evaluated by Descartes

This research report looks at how Descartes would feel about Plato's ideas. Would he agree with Plato in his ideas about death? Th...

Ancient Works of Art

far more meaning that representing daily life. According to one particular author, "The Cycladic civilization of the Aegean sea...

Plato's Contribution to Understanding Philosophy and Philosophers

academy the first university of its type, he was able to influence minds of the next generation and proliferate his ideas and meth...

Comparing Two Sculptures

was painted. There hints of yellow on the goddesss crown, as well as on the end of the cornucopia. The goddesss neck and breast ha...

Contrasts and Comparisons between Medea and Clytemnestra

In reaction, the nurse relates that Medea, "the hapless wife, thus scorned...lies fasting, yielding her body to her grief, wasting...

Comparing Two Art Styles

In five pages thispaper compares the depth and emotion of Hellenistic Greek marble statues with the statue of Ramses the Second fr...

"Gawain and the Greek Knight"/"Wife of Bath's Tale"

face" (lines 444-445)("Sir Gawain" 229). The head then warns Gawain not to forget their agreement, which is that Gawain will submi...

Politics by Aristotle and On Liberty by J.S. Mill

In eight pages this tutorial compares these philosophers' views on liberty and character within the context of their writings with...

Property as Defined by Edmund Burke and John Locke

to hold property" (Child, 1990, p. 578). For him, it was an inherent and instinctive part of human nature. In Chapter 5, "Of Pro...

Ethics According to Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle

In five pages these philosophers' views on ethics are contrasted and compared as represented by Aristotle in Nicomachean Ethics an...

Comparative Analysis of the Philosophical Views of Thomas Aquinas and Augustine of Hippo

In ten pages this paper contrasts and compares each religious philosopher's arguments regarding man being separate from goodness a...