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This paper examines if Niccolo Machiavelli or Plato would have provided Ralph with better advice on governing the island in this a...

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...

Despite her poor reception by those that disagree with her philosophically, Costello makes many valid points about animal rights. ...

This essay reports on three adult learning theories and relates them to the writer's experience. The theories are Freire, Mezirow,...

view is that the appetite for wisdom is the most noble of the possible forces that can drive humanity, and as such, the one which ...

moral fact by levying skepticism towards the basis of those moral truths and facts (Sinnott-Armstrong, 2011). For instance, one mi...

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...

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

Socrates frequently alluded was the basis for his debates with Gorgias, contending that the degree of abstraction pursued by thoug...

is only preserved as a term of reproach" (Plato). He illustrates how the figures of men and women and the third figure were round ...

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

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

leg only" (Plato). If this were true, if there were only one process in regards to life-death, then everything would ultimately co...

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

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...

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...

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 essay pertain to the way Plato and Nietzsche perceived the character and philosophy of Socrates. Seven pages in length, five ...

background, the points which Gray (2001) makes are surprising to say the least. Gray (2001) sees the war we as a society are wagi...

Near-death experiences (NDE) have been reported since ancient times. Even Plato reported one. In recent decades, there have been t...

culpable. It is true that many other nations, such as France, opposed the war effort in Iraq. Did the U.S. overstep its bounds? Wh...

the street ... must and will reflect our personal moral standards" (Reavley, 2001). Those moral standards, Reavley implies, must ...

"what is justice?" and after a definition is provided, Socrates gets the interlocutor to make a statement that would obviously con...

interaction with the world, ourselves, and others. Our perceptual capacities are not fixed; they are not static or one-dimensiona...

the harp is broken the music stops; if the human dies, doesnt the soul also vanish? (Plato). It is to answer these concerns and ar...

that is permanent and immutable. It is this world that is more real; the world of change is merely an imperfect image of this worl...

the individual and a definition of justice. There are three classes for the state to function properly: artisans, who are skilled ...

virtue, i.e., justice, but it is also included under Aquinas discussion of love, specifically under love of ones neighbor, for Go...