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major argument in favor of poetry; that it was an educational tool that could be used in the instruction of moral values. Sidne...

In six pages this paper analyzes The Republic by Plato in a consideration of how women's roles are portrayed. There is 1 source c...

as the original Greek legal process aspired to achieve such status, it can readily be said that its integrity has been severely co...

youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...

education is still substantially elevated in contemporary culture. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees virtue as choice and so mora...

classes in the State severally did their own business; and also thought to be temperate and valiant and wise by reason of certain ...

the notion of justice. This was essentially defined as doing the right thing. We note that one of the characters in the Republic i...

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....

a body" (Aristotle), Plato illustrates his inability to see beyond mankinds mortal connection, opting instead to focus upon a deci...

84). However, Socrates is willing to concede that an individual can desire an evil thing if he mistakenly first evaluates it as go...

is supplemented by innate elements of the intellect (DeLouth, 2002). This theory keyed into the nature-nurture debate. Skipping ...

how the individual, the personality, that is a human being is likely never to experience an afterlife. In this we see that Flew do...

motives of ambition -- it has no name in common use that I know of; let us call it timarchy or timocracy -- and then go on to ol...

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, ...

works into three central periods: namely, early, middle and late and the Republic is generally regarded as a middle period work (W...

very powerful and just individual, putting aside the fact she was a woman. While this speaks of men, and fighting for justice, one...

possibly think?" (I.3). As this indicates, Aristotles perspective is grounded in observation and reality. He sees the mind as intr...

believe. Deweys central thesis is rather controversial, but is seemingly valid, and has withstood the test of time. Indeed, Deweys...

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

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

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

of innate knowledge, he was adamant that nothing could be learned except through experience and sensory input: "How comes [the mi...

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

and ones existence. To reach true happiness, Plato contended that people must strive for a contentment that only comes from being...

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...

for, but for which there were certainly problems. People too easily give up on it. In his work entitled The History of the Pelopon...

life fulfillment and that a disabled individual should be allowed to die because their quality of life will not allow them to find...

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

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

around, arousing them and persuading them. He illustrates how people are often irritated by him because they feel they have been r...