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character of the leader nor of his ability to lead. The book is essentially about how a leader can be at his best. While it is tru...
charges of impiety and corruption of youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens ("Socrates," 2003). While this ph...
the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...
wine and pleasure, and rejecting the cold and structured nature of Apollonian society. For them, to be human is to follow ones bas...
his argument to the priestess who taught him mysteries in his youth, Diotima of Mantinea. Attributing his words to Diotima, Socrat...
they know was agreed upon in full assembly; and should it be decided that this is not so, the poor have discovered a hundred excus...
wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves social needs. A number of philosophers have contributed to the debate which...
leg only" (Plato). If this were true, if there were only one process in regards to life-death, then everything would ultimately co...
the more metaphysical idea that the world of the present is known as the physical world that one is able to perceive using the sen...
had to be obtained by directing the students mind toward the discovery of what is real and important, then allowing them to deduce...
of innate knowledge, he was adamant that nothing could be learned except through experience and sensory input: "How comes [the mi...
the best" (the literal definition of aristocracy) was to be achieved. This scenario, by its very nature, assured the manifestatio...
and ones existence. To reach true happiness, Plato contended that people must strive for a contentment that only comes from being...
that the story being told is one that has been re-told so often that it is little more than hearsay, and it is from this "story of...
this pint he is, in essence, pleading for his life and states, "I dare say that you may feel irritated at being suddenly awakened ...
background, the points which Gray (2001) makes are surprising to say the least. Gray (2001) sees the war we as a society are wagi...
also wrote that one could live justly only if they lived in a just society (Beck, n.d.). Plato had a number of caveats about a jus...
This paper examines if Niccolo Machiavelli or Plato would have provided Ralph with better advice on governing the island in this a...
In five pages the perceptions of classical philosophers Machiavelli, Plato, and Aristotle are applied to defense management's ethi...
will is responsible for the subsequent chain of events. Therein is the problem of free will. If it in fact exists, how...
tragedy" (Cai, 1999, p. 317). For Confucius, the focus was much narrower: when he considered poetry, he was thinking of the Book o...
Aristotles concrete, scientific theories are more relevant than Platos deductive and abstract ideology. Aristotle believed...
smartest beings when it comes to illustrating their capacity for cultivating and understanding knowledge; therefore, the value of ...
various experiences are provided by Socrates and the others. In some way, the work examines the idea of power. After all, if someo...
very powerful and just individual, putting aside the fact she was a woman. While this speaks of men, and fighting for justice, one...
possibly think?" (I.3). As this indicates, Aristotles perspective is grounded in observation and reality. He sees the mind as intr...
why so many people had to suffer. No matter the cause, the gods were not looked on with the reverence they had once enjoyed, and t...
be quantified. That is, ones life may be the truth, but it cannot be articulated as the truth. Still, there had been much debate b...
In a paper of thirteen pages, the writer looks at classical texts by Francis Bacon and Plato. The allegory of the cave and the fou...
Near-death experiences (NDE) have been reported since ancient times. Even Plato reported one. In recent decades, there have been t...