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

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...

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

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...

the best" (the literal definition of aristocracy) was to be achieved. This scenario, by its very nature, assured the manifestatio...

had to be obtained by directing the students mind toward the discovery of what is real and important, then allowing them to deduce...

this pint he is, in essence, pleading for his life and states, "I dare say that you may feel irritated at being suddenly awakened ...

wine and pleasure, and rejecting the cold and structured nature of Apollonian society. For them, to be human is to follow ones bas...

his argument to the priestess who taught him mysteries in his youth, Diotima of Mantinea. Attributing his words to Diotima, Socrat...

wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves social needs. A number of philosophers have contributed to the debate which...

charges of impiety and corruption of youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens ("Socrates," 2003). While this ph...

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

the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...

you not, such as you are, get your following together and sail beyond the seas? Did you not from your a far country carry off a lo...

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 supreme principle, the fundamental principle on which any well-ordered society could live (Bhandari, nd). Plato was certainl...

importance and children were to be guarded from superfluous information to come from for example poetry and literature. Rather, th...

In ten pages this tutorial paper imagines a lively dialogue between political philosophers including St. Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle...

led to alter his position. The old philosophers gave much attention to the issue of knowledge and epistemology. Aristotle ...

character of the leader nor of his ability to lead. The book is essentially about how a leader can be at his best. While it is tru...

Lysias topic is love, which in the ancient Greek world referred to the love of a man for another man. Homosexuality was practiced...

be attacked as while many analysts will agree that Plato clearly states this in The Republic, his other works suggest other ideas....

as people do want to know things and understand (1995). Both theorists do view education as important and place a particular empha...

he make it eternal anyway? Many people think of the universe as something that was eternal in the first place, irrespective of wha...

that was determined by human will, in that people choose whether or not to keep their promises (Hobbes, 1982). Those that keep th...

subject of forms. While Plato held a dual realms theory, Aristotle saw form and matter as existing in the same realm. In discussi...

interprets the ideal of freedom and to what extent they live in their own psychological prisons. Social freedom means that one wil...

human nature is bound by the weakness of mans character? In short, Platos (1979) freed prisoner is himself, the cave reflects the...

be studied scientifically in order to derive the most rational, economic and efficient means of administering policy. The form is...

also believed in one realm. Spinoza writes: "By God, I mean a Being absolutely infinite -- that is, a substance consisting in inf...