SEARCH RESULTS

In twelve pages this paper examines these two classical philosophers in a comparative analysis of their thoughts and achievements....

the soul. What the mind or soul once knew is raised to present awareness by a process of recollection aided by the technique of di...

Brian Vickers portrays Plato as an intellectual Odysseus, stealthily stealing the rhetorical arsenal of the sophists and using it ...

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

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

concepts that are far beyond his level of comprehension, only to ultimately be able to process the information. To reach true m...

is a case for communism at least for the lower classes. The supporting premises for that conclusion have already been noted and ge...

self-destruction. Socrates proposes many people in the simple city would not be satisfied forever with a simple way of life (Pla...

In five pages this paper examines Socrates' dialogue with Thrasymachus and considers his concept of justice as described in Plato'...

In ten pages this research paper examines Plato's portrayal of the soul as being imprisoned and how it relates to a harmonious sta...

In two pages this paper considers Plato's use of tetralogy organization in an overview of Books I and II of The Republic. There a...

In six pages a work of Plato is compared with the Christian writer C.S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters. Two sources are cited in t...

In seven pages this essay contrasts morality as depicted in Plato's Apology and Sophocles' Antigone. Two sources are cited in t...

In four pages this paper discusses the contemporary court system and considers Plato's philosophy on leadership as presented in Th...

prisoners were suddenly unshackled and forced to turn around and face the fire. To begin with, he would be blinded by its brillian...

In five pages this research paper examines how Parmenides' Eleatic philosophy was used by Aristotle and Plato as a way for reality...

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

can be found in many church doctrines today (Fisher, 2006). Augustine was a seeker of truth throughout his life (Smitha, 1998). H...

brought against me, and with my earliest accusers, and then with the later ones" (Plato, 1961, 18b). First, Socrates has been acc...

This paper discusses different parts of Plato's Republic. There is a discussion of natural law legal theory and legal positivist t...

truly understand Gods word: "I ask Thee, my God: pardon my sins, and as Thou didst grant to Thy servant to speak those words, gran...

wish, they have other freedoms that are perhaps not as obvious. Brave New World supports the hedonistic view. That is, Huxley (199...

would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images" (Plato, 1969. p. 409). He then likens the philosopher to a prisoner who ...

for the student of psychology to develop a well-rounded and complete understanding of the discipline, it is necessary to study bot...

This paper examines how love is conceptualized by Plato in Symposium when contrasted and compared with the views of Isaac Singer i...

In five pages the differing political views between Plato and his one time philosophy student Aristotle are discussed with Plato's...

In five pages Socrates' concepts of ethics, piety, and justice are discussed as they are represented in Plato's Crito and Euthyp...

(2002) argument is based on his experiences as first a federal prosecutor, then a trial judge, and finally a California Superior C...

a humans body. It sought to find pleasure and to find sustenance. "These appetites should not be allowed, to enslave the other ele...

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