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Love According to Aristophanes and Socrates in Symposium by Plato

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares Plato's ideas regarding love with the views of Socrates and Aristophanes as expres...

Soul Theory of Plato Featured in The Republic, Phaedrus, and Crito

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

Contemporary Religion and Plato

In six pages this paper compares contemporary religious views with Plato's philosophical concepts with God's existence, morality, ...

Proust and Descartes Regarding Identity

This research report looks at the ideas of these two philosophers through written works. Other works are explored such as those by...

The Theory of Forms and Parmenides' Change

In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at Plato's theories of Forms. Parmenides' views on change provide a counterpoint. Paper ...

Updike and Thomas - Perspectives on Death

In a paper of eight pages, the writer looks at the works of John Updike and Dylan Thomas. Themes of death are contrasted between "...

Leadership and the Forms Theory of Plato

In ten pages this paper examines Plato's views on leadership and human nature as they manifest themselves in his Theory of Forms. ...

Death and Brain Death Criteria

In five pages this paper examines death and what constitutes brain death as considered by John Arras and Bonnie Steinbock in Ethic...

Democracy According to Socrates and Henry David Thoreau

pleas, Socrates will not hear of any escape plans. He points out that, even though the sentence was unjust, it was perfectly legal...

Justice According to Thucydides and Plato

has Socrates presented with various definitions of justice. Socrates is always opposed to any rule or definition that can be appli...

Ideas about Peace and War

theories abound, and this idea actually seemingly did spark speculation about other black leaders deaths, it seems that at the ver...

A Philosophical Look at Animal Testing

if cats and dogs and other animals are pets and viewed as members of the family, how can people experiment on them and then put th...

Men's and Women's Education and the Philosophy of Plato

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

English Social Critique Utopia by Thomas More

"For it is too extreme and cruel a punishment for theft, and yet not sufficient to refrain men from theft," because there is no pu...

Memory Role and Personal Identity

Loftus report that visitors to Disneyland had come to the conclusion that they met Bugs Bunny, but the rabbit is actually a Warner...

Causation and David Hume

More specifically, Hume argued that cause is the idea that one event makes another event inevitable and/or necessary (The Philosop...

Induction Problem and David Hume

Hume was often at odds with other philosophers when it came to his personal perception of human nature and the ways of life....

Death Penalty Argument

that the death penalty is not a deterrent against crimes when the death penalty is in place. One author, in fact, states that hom...

Juvenile Offenders and Capital Punishment

and unusual punishment for the general population), it can be argued that it can in fact be applied to juvenile offender populatio...

Exercise in Making an Ethical Decision

the cracks of indigent health care. The hospital quite naturally is concerned about the cost of continuing to provide care for Mr...

Film Sliding Doors, Determinism, and Free Will

is, there is both free will and determinism. The idea that free will and determinism are one in the same is rare, but it seems ...

Kant, Utilitarianism and Consequentialism

every objection. What is perhaps striking is that Mills theory is applicable to a variety of situations. Unlike Kant for ex...

Nursing Ethics

expected to develop some form of cancer "or another rapidly debilitating condition and well be dead within a year of getting the d...

Perspectives on Capital Punishment in America

generally perceived as a human rights violation (Grant 1998). During the last decade, however, there has been a growing internatio...

Stating a Case Against the Death Penalty

actions if they involve pedophilia, rape or murder. The families of murder victims often wait for a verdict of death and believe t...

Aristotle and Plato's Differing Views

"...no man will benefit from his profession unless he is paid as well" (Plato, 2003, p.28). One can easily see that Plato does not...

God's Existence and the Design Argument

from the Appearances of Nature (Beebe, 2002). In this text, Paley wrote: There cannot be design without a designer; contrivance wi...

Society and the Benefits of Capital Punishment

prior to its implementation. The crime must have been extremely egregious to warrant the ultimate penalty. An important point is...

Basic Argument Opposing Capital Punishment

be the case. This is because they want justice for their loved one. They do not want to see a murderer enjoy even another hour of ...

Ethics, Justice, Love, Virtue and the Death Penalty

(Marquand, 1997, p. 1). Dennis Pigman, a minister of the Assembly of God and a former chaplain on the Arkansas death row, believes...