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In five pages this paper analyzes Plato's Philebus in terms of the writing style and the philosopher's message. There are no othe...

In fifteen pages this paper considers the connection between wisdom, holiness, justice, courage, temperance and virtue as revealed...

In three pages this paper considers how Plato's text reveals virtue to be not a single entity but rather deeply connected to other...

In seven pages this paper examines Plato's Phaedo and The Republic in terms of how it portrays the philosopher's perspectives on d...

In six pages this paper considers Plato's text in its representation of the evil and unhappiness of the 'unjust' according to Socr...

In four pages this paper analyzes the harp analogy of Socrates that is featured in Plato's Phaedo. There are no other sources lis...

In nine pages this paper considers Plato's views regarding the soul's immortality as featured in three of his dialogues. There ar...

another thing: ? young men of the richer classes, who have not much to do, come about me of their own accord; they like to hear th...

In five pages this report discusses the extent human effort can result in improvement in a consideration of Letters from the Stoic...

In eight pages this paper analyzes how Plato's methods as they involve truth are considered in an examination of this trio of dial...

knew nothing and was far from wise, he sets upon a course of action to find someone wiser than himself to offer to the Oracle as r...

the preexistence of the soul, and the separate existence of forms work together or not? Thats a lot of questions to tackle, and to...

three characters (a stranger from Athens; Cleinias, from Crete; and Megillus, a Lacedaemonian) are discussing their various types ...

suggest that both love and hate can be taught (Plato). We can further extrapolate from that to conclude that if a nation is in har...

has many flaws. There is question as to whether or not the method really gets to the truth at all. In fact, one has to wonder whet...

most part. He was clearly setting himself up as some sort of martyr or individual who would ultimately bring about change to the s...

she proved to me as I proved to him that, by my own showing, Love was neither fair nor good. " Here, the idea that love is powerfu...

fundamental importance in the Republic of the metaphor of descent and its connection to the two great themes of birth and death, a...

the lyrics in modern songs, and in essence, the poets of today are Eminem and Jay Zee and Beyonce. Lyrics to emanate from these ar...

brought against me, and with my earliest accusers, and then with the later ones" (Plato, 1961, 18b). First, Socrates has been acc...

like Hades and the underworld; Tiresias the blind seer; and other references to death and dying (Plato). They decide they have to...

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

what was passing in the world around them, to the realm of re-presentative intellect. An external phenomenon is thus translated i...

people must strive for a knowledge that only comes from being true to ones own choice. According to Plato, men and women both hav...

if he has acquired the knowledge he could not have acquired it in this life, unless he has been taught geometry; for he may be mad...

like knowledge itself, is secure. Indeed, according to Plato correct opinion is a guide to knowledge. To be correct, opinions th...

thought that the Theory of Forms was useless when it came to explaining the material world "because the connection between the two...

for which they are talented. Here, it is thought that the rulers who are willing to rule, who go into the cave, who are vocal, are...

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

possible fat man in that doorway; and again, the possible bald man in that doorway. Are they the same possible men, or two possibl...