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

come after Plato, not before. (This example is found in Book VII of The Republic, which is available online.) As Im sure youll ...

to return to the cave because its familiar and comfortable? The answer to all these questions is "yes." (Allegory of the Cave, 2...

a product of how "own imperfect understanding of nature, of our ignorance of how to harmonize our activities with the worlds scrip...

for, but for which there were certainly problems. People too easily give up on it. In his work entitled The History of the Pelopon...

also supported what was known as the Theory of Ideas, which mainly stated that archetypal ideas (which rest in the universal)(Plan...

around, arousing them and persuading them. He illustrates how people are often irritated by him because they feel they have been r...

original thirteen colonies on which the new United States of America was founded removed their approval of being governed by the B...

life fulfillment and that a disabled individual should be allowed to die because their quality of life will not allow them to find...

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...

Yet is it just to have such a rule in place? Furthermore is a just for a professional football team to be fined, simply because th...

his writings (Levinson x). Socrates would continue to dominate Platos personal and professional lives for years to come, and woul...

the circumstance. In other words, if something can go wrong with it, that sense is considered inconsequential to the final outcome...

be studied scientifically in order to derive the most rational, economic and efficient means of administering policy. The form is...

also believed in one realm. Spinoza writes: "By God, I mean a Being absolutely infinite -- that is, a substance consisting in inf...

surely bless you and make your descendant as numerous as the stars in the sky." Because Abraham never questioned a divine commandm...

as well as the people. When one views the former President of the United States, Bill Clinton, for example, one hardly thinks ab...

that was determined by human will, in that people choose whether or not to keep their promises (Hobbes, 1982). Those that keep th...

subject of forms. While Plato held a dual realms theory, Aristotle saw form and matter as existing in the same realm. In discussi...

interprets the ideal of freedom and to what extent they live in their own psychological prisons. Social freedom means that one wil...

the best" (the literal definition of aristocracy) was to be achieved. This scenario, by its very nature, assured the manifestatio...

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...

an imaginary podium, and is steadily building volume when Socrates interrupts.) Socrates: Oh, I see. Then the nude statuary that s...

and ones existence. To reach true happiness, Plato contended that people must strive for a contentment that only comes from being...

sported the slogan "Challenge Authority." To many, it had little meaning. That is because the majority of people are sheep. They d...

the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...

his argument to the priestess who taught him mysteries in his youth, Diotima of Mantinea. Attributing his words to Diotima, Socrat...

wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves social needs. A number of philosophers have contributed to the debate which...

wine and pleasure, and rejecting the cold and structured nature of Apollonian society. For them, to be human is to follow ones bas...