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Essays 271 - 300
Although biblical, the story provides a warning in that perhaps a little knowledge can be harmful. Another point of view is that k...
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...
youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...
classes in the State severally did their own business; and also thought to be temperate and valiant and wise by reason of certain ...
for Plato and are directly related to that capacity of understanding. Physical things of the world must, of necessity, have bodily...
the soul. What the mind or soul once knew is raised to present awareness by a process of recollection aided by the technique of di...
own life? Not all philosophers would agree with the path he ultimately chose. First, it is important to keep in mind that practi...
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....
(2002) argument is based on his experiences as first a federal prosecutor, then a trial judge, and finally a California Superior C...
new ideas. The body supplies the means by which knowledge can be attained, for it is necessary, according to Plato, for things an...
he sought to bring truth to others. Does Socrates Do Evil? From Kierkegaards position it is perhaps truth that all people do e...
"Metamorphoses" and Socrates "Apology". While "Apology" is Platos account of Socrates trial and ultimate death it is also...
support for the notion that people must obey the laws of the place in which they are born. How is this accomplished? Aristotle d...
background, the points which Gray (2001) makes are surprising to say the least. Gray (2001) sees the war we as a society are wagi...
They are, instead, robot-like in that they do what they are told and do not question the validity of the teachings. Instead, peopl...
profit than seeking knowledge. The schools headmaster was Socrates, and Strepsiades hopes that Phidippides will be able to apply ...
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...
in fact more beneficial than justice and that the role of a good leader is to recognize when it is necessary to take action that a...
do good, not evil to their friends (Plato, 2002). As this indicates, Polemarchus works hard to defend his fathers "rule of thumb...
is good (Frost 84). For Socrates, "a life which is always inquiring and trying to discover what is good is the best kind of life, ...
best and brightest citizens." After the candidates shake hands, the moderator presented the first topic for debate, that of taxat...
84). However, Socrates is willing to concede that an individual can desire an evil thing if he mistakenly first evaluates it as go...
time. And, he was not content to attempt to dispel theories of old, but was also one to attempt the disruption of more modern appr...
no matter how insignificant or trite they may seem. However, it would seem that he believed that there were at least two types of ...
the amount of knowledge that anyone has very little to do with doing things that are wrong. Now, understandably, we can see wher...
Brian Vickers portrays Plato as an intellectual Odysseus, stealthily stealing the rhetorical arsenal of the sophists and using it ...
In 6 pages this paper critically analyzes Socrates argument regarding justice in this text and the use of logical deduction by Pla...
In ten pages capital punishment is examined in terms of ethical acceptability with an attempt to arrive at a consensus through a c...
Plato's Apology is examined in 5 pages in a structural and rhetorical analysis of the philosopher's defense of his teacher Socrate...
In six pages Socrates arguments, counterarguments and the great philosopher's defense techniques are examined. Four sources are c...