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Essays 181 - 210
what was passing in the world around them, to the realm of re-presentative intellect. An external phenomenon is thus translated i...
and with that has come an interest in spirituality itself, outside of any religious context. It is this search for a truth that m...
can one know what is beautiful or what is ugly? There must be some sort of shared experience. Plato uses a cave allegory--somethi...
In seven pages the cave allegory featured in Plato's Republic is applied to contemporary U.S. political leadership. Four sources ...
soul, as imaged by Plato, is made up of the qualities of reason, spirit and desire or appetite (Honderich, et al, 1995). The "reas...
in order to be just. Many are familiar with the tales of Sodom and Gomorrah from the bible. They understand that many cities had ...
This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...
In a type of author/character debate, Plato explores the premises of his theory by having Socrates debate them. Plato theorized ...
n.d.). Plato did talk about God, in Timaeus, Plato said that if God made the world as perfect then the soul must be perfect, also ...
In a paper that consists of eight pages Plato's interpretation of the soul and its parts are explored along with a discussion of t...
humans cannot readily draw on the human collective conscious, or the knowledge that exists in the universe, they had a glimpse of ...
a weapon to the hands of a madman is obviously unjust. Taylor (2003) comments on how this refutation of Cephalus position demonstr...
reaching true conclusions and therefore may use their knowledge of language and logic to confuse the average person on the issues ...
to the outside, the cave becomes a type of conduit, or birth canal which brings him into the life of actual knowledge. What one ca...
between the citizens. Taken together, the guardians are people who are skilled in governing certain areas. However, these two type...
human being from conception to death is encapsulated in a pod. In Platos Cave the only thing that they can see is...
with sickness, or the pilot who helps friends against "the perils of the sea" (Plato Book I). He then inquires into "what sort of ...
from the fact that I realized that I knew nothing. A man of my era named Chaerephon once asked the Oracle at Delphi is there w...
how ones intellect cannot be considered a gender. In other words, intelligence is intelligence regardless of where it is housed. ...
are afraid because ignorant, and perceive the pain and not the benefits; nor do they apprehend that a sick soul is worse than a si...
of death, as well as the mystery of death. This establishes a foundation from which we can learn, especially considering that Nula...
ideas. As we shall soon see, through these speeches Plato seems to have reasoned out how it is that mankind make their way from th...
(Washington State University, 2004). Plato asserts that our perceptions are essentially "shadows" of real objects. In ot...
individual to the spiritual and the universe. According to the scala amoris, then, love is that which in its highest and purest se...
In eleven pages this research paper contrasts and compares Plato's and Confucius's perceptions on the ruling state and society wit...
In six pages this creative essay examines an event in which a college student had to defend beliefs and this experience is related...
In four pages this paper discusses the contemporary court system and considers Plato's philosophy on leadership as presented in Th...
In seven pages this paper examines Plato's Phaedo and The Republic in terms of how it portrays the philosopher's perspectives on d...
In ten pages this paper examines the wisdom of Socrates as it is depicted in Plato's Apology. There are no other sources listed....
This paper consists of four pages and evaluates the guilty verdict Socrates received in terms of whether or not it represented the...