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Essays 211 - 240
like Hades and the underworld; Tiresias the blind seer; and other references to death and dying (Plato). They decide they have to...
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...
people must strive for a knowledge that only comes from being true to ones own choice. According to Plato, men and women both hav...
noble. Socrates was doing the right thing. Today, as people wrestle with unjust rules and laws, there are some who simply follow ...
the physical in a dramatic and practical way. While Aristotle saw the heart as just a physical organ, he had an idea that seemed t...
off than those who remain in the cave. Before delving into an analysis, it pays to explore the allegory as laid out by Plato. Wh...
if he has acquired the knowledge he could not have acquired it in this life, unless he has been taught geometry; for he may be mad...
like knowledge itself, is secure. Indeed, according to Plato correct opinion is a guide to knowledge. To be correct, opinions th...
thought that the Theory of Forms was useless when it came to explaining the material world "because the connection between the two...
This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...
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 ...
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...
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...
In a type of author/character debate, Plato explores the premises of his theory by having Socrates debate them. Plato theorized ...
(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...
possible fat man in that doorway; and again, the possible bald man in that doorway. Are they the same possible men, or two possibl...
ghost, a phantom-true, but no real breath of life" (23.122-23). This minimal survival apparently depends on the appropriate funera...
unison (Rosen, 2005). Plato (1996) writes: "Is not the community of pleasure and pain the tie that binds? The sharing, to the grea...
is clear that each of them has some wish in his mind that he cant articulate; instead, like an oracle, he half-grasps what he want...
in order to insure passage to the underworld. The Underworld in this mythology was not a particularly happy place; it was a gloomy...
truly understand Gods word: "I ask Thee, my God: pardon my sins, and as Thou didst grant to Thy servant to speak those words, gran...
Kamath (2007) goes through all the possible outcomes regarding this dilemma. He explains that if the operation goes forth, there a...
of his text The Republic, Plato presents one of Western civilizations most accurate conceptualizations of the tremendous influence...
would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images" (Plato, 1969. p. 409). He then likens the philosopher to a prisoner who ...