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also supported what was known as the Theory of Ideas, which mainly stated that archetypal ideas (which rest in the universal)(Plan...

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

original thirteen colonies on which the new United States of America was founded removed their approval of being governed by the B...

is only preserved as a term of reproach" (Plato). He illustrates how the figures of men and women and the third figure were round ...

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...

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

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

qualities in the face of conflict or challenge. "Deliberate effort and the taking of thoughtful pains are required...Education, a...

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

a democracy. Plato contended that it would be impossible within a democracy to have the kind of harmony and societal unit...

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

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...

to return to the cave because its familiar and comfortable? The answer to all these questions is "yes." (Allegory of the Cave, 2...

only thing that is known is what is presently occurring. In other words, if something is out of ones eyesight and experience, it i...

of science there are two branches which are epistemology and metaphysics (Honderich, 1995). Science makes up an important part of ...

draw on the human collective conscious, or the knowledge that exists in the universe, they had a glimpse of it once, and that expl...

Christ. The polytheistic society of ancient Greece was already moving toward belief in a single god by the time of Plato and his ...

the street ... must and will reflect our personal moral standards" (Reavley, 2001). Those moral standards, Reavley implies, must ...

culpable. It is true that many other nations, such as France, opposed the war effort in Iraq. Did the U.S. overstep its bounds? Wh...

"what is justice?" and after a definition is provided, Socrates gets the interlocutor to make a statement that would obviously con...

that is permanent and immutable. It is this world that is more real; the world of change is merely an imperfect image of this worl...

society exist without democracy? Many theorists today would think not, and while many enlightened individuals could argue that mer...

a product of how "own imperfect understanding of nature, of our ignorance of how to harmonize our activities with the worlds scrip...

This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...

In three pages gender concepts are discussed in this consideration of how Plato regarded equality for women. Two sources are cite...

surely bless you and make your descendant as numerous as the stars in the sky." Because Abraham never questioned a divine commandm...

is not clear how the lower classes are expected to live (1993). It is also noted that while Plato makes a case for communism for ...

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