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and with that has come an interest in spirituality itself, outside of any religious context. It is this search for a truth that m...

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 humans body. It sought to find pleasure and to find sustenance. "These appetites should not be allowed, to enslave the other ele...

change and that personality stays the same. In order to comprehend why this is not the case, and understand the thesis which also ...

philosophical thought begs to differ. In the pre-Plato period, for example, the prevailing belief was that pleasure was immediate ...

have merit, they are essentially inapplicable to our contemporary concerns regarding knowledge. In other words, while knowledge m...

at once managed for himself to become one of the envoys to the king ; upon arrival, having seduced his wife, with her help, he lai...

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

to be transcendent elements sent to teach important lessons turns out to be nothing more than images cast from puppets whose shado...

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

human being from conception to death is encapsulated in a pod. In Platos Cave the only thing that they can see is...

with sickness, or the pilot who helps friends against "the perils of the sea" (Plato Book I). He then inquires into "what sort of ...

been linguistically successful (Safty, 1992). Eventually, and with exposure to French, the bilingual programs became known as Fren...

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

Ryan helps one to understand how there is nothing inherently wrong with being smart, unless the individual is a child who does not...

In six pages this paper analyzes the contention of Socrates that an 'unexamined life is not worth living' as this view is represen...

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

profit than seeking knowledge. The schools headmaster was Socrates, and Strepsiades hopes that Phidippides will be able to apply ...

something new. While ease of learning is not exactly the goal, the concept of generalist education helps students make a definite ...

individual to the spiritual and the universe. According to the scala amoris, then, love is that which in its highest and purest se...

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...

both the Amish religion and the Amish way of life (University of Missouri/Kansas City, 2003). The parents felt that by sending the...

(Washington State University, 2004). Plato asserts that our perceptions are essentially "shadows" of real objects. In ot...

was. In addition, children from abusive families are likely to grow into abusers themselves. Now, were not intimating that...

of death, as well as the mystery of death. This establishes a foundation from which we can learn, especially considering that Nula...

are afraid because ignorant, and perceive the pain and not the benefits; nor do they apprehend that a sick soul is worse than a si...

from the fact that I realized that I knew nothing. A man of my era named Chaerephon once asked the Oracle at Delphi is there w...

is no realistic political system, for it takes considerably more than one mans word to impart a true sense of unity. "Thus, for y...

reaching true conclusions and therefore may use their knowledge of language and logic to confuse the average person on the issues ...