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anywhere else. We are all, if we already knew it, already there" (Huxley 35) displays a sharp Taoist influence. Looking at Huxle...

a peasant cottage where he can unobtrusively observe a family and how they interact and he begins to learn from them. In other wo...

have been the fact that the individual has MS or CP or some other disease. Another reason might have been that they simply were no...

launched on the brilliance of one researcher, who then turns over the reigns to a professional management team as he or she moves ...

or that their lives are even close to resembling those of the first disciples?" (as qtd. in Galli, 2002, p.62). He poses a good qu...

Although biblical, the story provides a warning in that perhaps a little knowledge can be harmful. Another point of view is that k...

So for Plato, this idea extended into both personal and political ramifications. He reasoned that when an individual was doing th...

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

of subjective satisfaction (Seifert, 2003). Moral goodness just is. One looks at a baby or a puppy and thinks that these living th...

a weapon to the hands of a madman is obviously unjust. Taylor (2003) comments on how this refutation of Cephalus position demonstr...

ideas. As we shall soon see, through these speeches Plato seems to have reasoned out how it is that mankind make their way from th...

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...

can one know what is beautiful or what is ugly? There must be some sort of shared experience. Plato uses a cave allegory--somethi...

in order to be just. Many are familiar with the tales of Sodom and Gomorrah from the bible. They understand that many cities had ...

a significant subculture in American society as a whole, as it accounts for 41.1 million American or roughly 13.5 percent of the p...

This essay pertains to The Cave by Jose Saramago and presents the interpretation that the author stresses the similarities between...

This essay pertains to FDR's "Four Freedoms" speech, which was delivered as the State of the Union address in January of 1941. The...

also being reflected in modern culture with the search for a spiritual connection with the earth, which is a value being adopted a...

distance. In some way one can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees ...

requirements of the wilderness can be defined as the "difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony" ...

role in this respect. Plato held that the key agent in any sort of behavior but especially ethical or moral behavior (or lack of t...

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

on this subject might want to explore various opinions on democracy and society. Socrates claimed that democracy--because it is ...

In five pages this novel's protagonist is the central focus with comparisons to the depiction of Latin American culture to America...

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

as he is "jerked from the heart of civilization and flung into the heart of things primordial" when a known and trusted human sell...

This 5 page paper examines the way in which one can use the Socratic method to find the truth. The writer also discusses the conce...

of peoples in the area, as settlements were logically more concentrated around water. Members of all groups were particularly dev...

In five pages this paper compares Plato's perspectives on democracy with Marx's concepts of capitalism. There are 4 other sources...

In six pages this paper discusses the philosophical distinctions Socrates made between these two concepts as presented in Plato's ...