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In five pages Hume, Kant, Cicero, and Plato are discussing how when responding to political oppression violence can be morally jus...
motives of ambition -- it has no name in common use that I know of; let us call it timarchy or timocracy -- and then go on to ol...
In six pages this paper analyzes The Republic by Plato in a consideration of how women's roles are portrayed. There is 1 source c...
is supplemented by innate elements of the intellect (DeLouth, 2002). This theory keyed into the nature-nurture debate. Skipping ...
that love is beautiful and love is a god by showing them the true nature of love and the use love can be to humankind....
84). However, Socrates is willing to concede that an individual can desire an evil thing if he mistakenly first evaluates it as go...
essential to the happiness of a man - having something worth living for is as important as having something worth dying for (Bloom...
works into three central periods: namely, early, middle and late and the Republic is generally regarded as a middle period work (W...
it comes to knowledge leads one to believe that people are much more likely to act out in such a manner that is motivated only by ...
(Garrett(1)). In addition these gods possess many human traits such as jealousy and envy. As Garrett(1) states, "These gods, mo...
top the list. The Catholic Church is often quoted as having said, "Give me a child until he is seven and he will always be Catholi...
things that are not concrete, but ideas. This type of thinking, the student could state, however, really puts a hold on empirical ...
(2002) argument is based on his experiences as first a federal prosecutor, then a trial judge, and finally a California Superior C...
the notion of justice. This was essentially defined as doing the right thing. We note that one of the characters in the Republic i...
of veracity. This is because each segment of humanity is its own little universe and what is held to be truth in one section of th...
education is still substantially elevated in contemporary culture. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees virtue as choice and so mora...
classes in the State severally did their own business; and also thought to be temperate and valiant and wise by reason of certain ...
youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...
for example, would exist even if there were no human beings there to see it, but not that colour was an independent spiritual form...
a body" (Aristotle), Plato illustrates his inability to see beyond mankinds mortal connection, opting instead to focus upon a deci...
words, "how does one KNOW that this is the truth". Most of Socrates teaching took place on the steps of a Lyceum, much like an a...
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...
major argument in favor of poetry; that it was an educational tool that could be used in the instruction of moral values. Sidne...
smartest beings when it comes to illustrating their capacity for cultivating and understanding knowledge; therefore, the value of ...
the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...
wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves social needs. A number of philosophers have contributed to the debate which...
his argument to the priestess who taught him mysteries in his youth, Diotima of Mantinea. Attributing his words to Diotima, Socrat...
societys goods (Platos Political Theory, 2002). They were satisfied with their lives and held back from being passionate natured ...
wine and pleasure, and rejecting the cold and structured nature of Apollonian society. For them, to be human is to follow ones bas...
they know was agreed upon in full assembly; and should it be decided that this is not so, the poor have discovered a hundred excus...