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God’s Existence: Craig, Socrates, and Nietzsche

if they were not a part of society then it would be obvious that God did not exist. In relationship to what other philosophers fro...

Citizenship

and is not open to the charge of flattery" (Plato). While Socrates then discusses the love of youth, possibly referring to having ...

The Life of Socrates

could be products of society, but never the causes, or it would alter the objectivity of sociology as a science (Hamilton, 1995). ...

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 ...

Socrates and Niccolo Machiavelli on Political Education

ground, whether that is through dialectical discourse or reason (1994). Barber claims that neither approach leaves any room for po...

A Philosopher Dialogue

guidance that gives meaning for man. Rather, as he explains, mans actions and intellectual activity seem to provide meaning. This ...

Defense of Socrates in Plato's Apology

wiser (21a). This news confused Socrates greatly as he realized that he was not particularly wise. He, therefore, set out to find ...

Acting Justly and the Reasons for Doing So in The Republic by Plato

to be achieved. This scenario, by its very nature, assured the manifestation of orderliness and moderation rather than the less a...

Socrates and Odysseus

is less important than the conversation which takes place, and since the two individuals are from periods in Greek history several...

Virtues, Morals, and Ethics of Bill Clinton and the Monica Lewinsky Scandal

In ten pages various philosophical methods are applied to the Monica Lewinsky scandal in terms of what might offer the best instru...

Apology by Plato and Innocence

fact that they were poets made them think that they had a perfect understanding of all other subjects, of which they were totally ...

Business and Ethics

In five pages this paper examines the philosophies of Rand, Mills, Kant, Aristotle, and Socrates in a consideration whether or not...

Abortion and Morality

Introduction The issues surrounding abortion are complex to say the least. People are polarized on the issue...

Achilles and Socrates

ghost, a phantom-true, but no real breath of life" (23.122-23). This minimal survival apparently depends on the appropriate funera...

Civil Disobedience and Socrates

In five pages this paper examines the justifiability of civil disobedience in a consideration of several philosophers and theori...

Paradox of Learning in Plato' Meno

For Socrates, and consequently Plato, the great business of life was conversation. He sought out everyone, and seizing upon some e...

Man of All Seaons/Robert Bolt

This essay discusses Robert Bolt's play that relates the life of Thomas More, A Man For All Seasons. The writer compares More's he...

Virtue and Meno by Plato

In six pages this paper discusses virtue and whether or not it is possible to teach in a consideration of the dialogue between Men...

Astronomy and Greece

Since approximately 700 B. C., astronomy had a great deal to do with keeping time (PG). Natural periods of time were generated th...

Sophocles, Aristotle, and Socrates on Political Man and Sense of Duty

In seven pages this paper examines the conflict of man's struggles in accepting duties and responsibilities to the polis from the ...

Greek Philosophers and Myth v. Knowledge

he did not know the true cause of an action he would readily admit to not knowing. This should not be mistaken however for a will...

How Friedrich Nietzsche Viewed Plato and Socrates

upon expressing an objective truth. For example, approving of an action and stating that the action is right can be construed as ...

Pre-Socratic Philosophers as Compared with Later Thinkers

of fire (The New York Times, 2008). He lived during the late fifth century BC (The New York Times, 2008). The Eleatic school for i...

Socrates, Religion And "The Apology"

millennia worth of philosophical comprehension of mans existence. For those who depend upon traditional practice to shepherd them...

The Cave and The Divided Line

student sees in relationship to what the image can present: "but of the ideas which they resemble; not of the figures which they d...

Morals, Morality and Ethics

The writer discusses the moral and ethical positions of several philosophers including Ayer, Smith, Mackie, Socrates and Glaucon. ...

Socrates, Rationalism, Behaviorism and Psychology

always do the good" and, therefore, is someone goes astray, it is because they lack the knowledge of how to "act rightly" (Shiraev...

Dialogue Between Gorgias and Socrates

In six pages this paper examines Plato's Gorgias which describes a philosophical dialogue between the title character and Socrates...

Matthew Fox and Socrates

purposes, that they are omnipresent, and that they give signs to men of all that concerns them (X Memorabilia I, I, 19) (Beck ppg...

Crito's Argument That Socrates Should Escape from Prison

In five pages this paper considers why Crito believes Socrates should attempt a prison escape instead of subject himself to capita...