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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...
background, the points which Gray (2001) makes are surprising to say the least. Gray (2001) sees the war we as a society are wagi...
However, Allen also makes the point that Platos attitude was at least partially due to his respect and fear of the powers of art o...
societys goods (Platos Political Theory, 2002). They were satisfied with their lives and held back from being passionate natured ...
top the list. The Catholic Church is often quoted as having said, "Give me a child until he is seven and he will always be Catholi...
things that are not concrete, but ideas. This type of thinking, the student could state, however, really puts a hold on empirical ...
(2002) argument is based on his experiences as first a federal prosecutor, then a trial judge, and finally a California Superior C...
they know was agreed upon in full assembly; and should it be decided that this is not so, the poor have discovered a hundred excus...
offer a profusion of pleasures... injustice pays better than justice" (364b). Next, Socrates appeared to shift gears and direct t...
wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves social needs. A number of philosophers have contributed to the debate which...
his argument to the priestess who taught him mysteries in his youth, Diotima of Mantinea. Attributing his words to Diotima, Socrat...
the kings and philosophers -- should not have the right to bear children or even own their own property. This, he maintained, wou...
a leader? How should a prince behave? Although the motive for Machiavelli writing this piece, and the application of this work to ...
trial for treason and his thoughts prior to his execution. These are the Apology, the Crito and the Phaedo, which is an account of...
the supreme principle, the fundamental principle on which any well-ordered society could live (Bhandari, nd). Plato was certainl...
patently incorrect assumption or definition. Socrates exercises in dialogue and thinking are not entirely negative and are certa...
right or correct, or is there something about that action itself that God recognizes, and for this reason declares the action corr...
of the same) is "reason" rather than the self-conscious "I." One may then extend the concept from ethical ideas to morality, whic...
essential to the happiness of a man - having something worth living for is as important as having something worth dying for (Bloom...
something in Platos morality which does not really belong to Plato but is only to be met with in his philosophy, one might say in ...
Plato emphasizes the importance of maintaining self control in the face of eros, the importance of purging the passions of the fle...
theory of "seeing is believing" and that something must be touched in order to be a reality. According to Goellnitz, one s...
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...
In five pages this paper discusses D.R. Bhandarei's essay regarding the representation of justice in The Republic by Plato. There...
have groomed themselves for heaven. They have made sure to live clean lives so their souls will be saved. Agnostics and atheists e...
In five pages this paper examines how Plato, Aristotle, and Immanuel Kant define political thinking. Six sources are cited in the...
In five pages this paper considers what philosophers David Hume, Thomas Hobbes, Rene Descartes, and Plato have to say about the du...
In six pages this research essay considers the differences that exist in the political philosophies of John Locke and Plato. Four...