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In ten pages this paper examines Plato's views on leadership and human nature as they manifest themselves in his Theory of Forms. ...

noble. Socrates was doing the right thing. Today, as people wrestle with unjust rules and laws, there are some who simply follow ...

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...

people must strive for a knowledge that only comes from being true to ones own choice. According to Plato, men and women both hav...

like Hades and the underworld; Tiresias the blind seer; and other references to death and dying (Plato). They decide they have to...

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...

So for Plato, this idea extended into both personal and political ramifications. He reasoned that when an individual was doing th...

profit than seeking knowledge. The schools headmaster was Socrates, and Strepsiades hopes that Phidippides will be able to apply ...

In six pages this paper analyzes the contention of Socrates that an 'unexamined life is not worth living' as this view is represen...

Although biblical, the story provides a warning in that perhaps a little knowledge can be harmful. Another point of view is that k...

to be transcendent elements sent to teach important lessons turns out to be nothing more than images cast from puppets whose shado...

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...

between the citizens. Taken together, the guardians are people who are skilled in governing certain areas. However, these two type...

how ones intellect cannot be considered a gender. In other words, intelligence is intelligence regardless of where it is housed. ...

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...

reaching true conclusions and therefore may use their knowledge of language and logic to confuse the average person on the issues ...

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 ...

individual to the spiritual and the universe. According to the scala amoris, then, love is that which in its highest and purest se...

(Washington State University, 2004). Plato asserts that our perceptions are essentially "shadows" of real objects. In ot...

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...

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...

is no realistic political system, for it takes considerably more than one mans word to impart a true sense of unity. "Thus, for y...

a humans body. It sought to find pleasure and to find sustenance. "These appetites should not be allowed, to enslave the other ele...

change and that personality stays the same. In order to comprehend why this is not the case, and understand the thesis which also ...

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...

concepts that are far beyond his level of comprehension, only to ultimately be able to process the information. To reach true m...