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

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...

what was passing in the world around them, to the realm of re-presentative intellect. An external phenomenon is thus translated i...

This 5 page paper examines the way in which one can use the Socratic method to find the truth. The writer also discusses the conce...

In five pages this report examines the qualities of being human in terms of being and becoming in the individual and incorporates ...

of human thinking and an awareness of what constitutes the basics of human nature. Their lessons and attitudes are still relevant ...

in order to be just. Many are familiar with the tales of Sodom and Gomorrah from the bible. They understand that many cities had ...

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...

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

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...

In six pages this paper examines the just society quest as philosophically considered by John Stuart Mill in 'On Liberty,' Jean Ja...

In five pages this report argues that both Protagoras and Socrates' ideals are ascetic and hedonistic as presented in Plato's dial...

In six pages this report examines individual understanding of the world as considered in Plato's Phaedo, in the scientific inquiry...

many partners and purveyors will be required to furnish them. One person will turn to another to supply a particular want, and fo...

citizen was guaranteed the right to be heard in an Athenian court. Since the government structure was founded on the principle th...

has Socrates presented with various definitions of justice. Socrates is always opposed to any rule or definition that can be appli...

it would seem. Socrates agrees for he sees that by having such an argument with Euthyphro he may find a better way to plead his ow...

In six pages good and evil are examined along with Plato's assertion that evil is not knowingly committed by man. There are no ot...

In twelve pages Plato's dialogues The Republic, Phaedrus, and Gorgias are examined in an analysis of how the philosopher conceptua...

then, accompanied by proof, it can therefore be called knowledge. He seems to move in circles a bit with this assertion, in that ...

Socrates ideas. He states that he will be Euthyphros student in these matters. Of course, it would seem that Socrates is being a b...

attempt to free themselves. What he has realized is that what they had seen all along on the wall of the cave were mere representa...

role in this respect. Plato held that the key agent in any sort of behavior but especially ethical or moral behavior (or lack of t...

close relationships over great distances and for a long period of time, indefinitely, even with separations and loss of contact" (...

tone and character with the description of Xenophon, who says in the Memorabilia that Socrates might have been acquitted if in any...

impious act. Euthyphro replies to Socrates claiming "I am amused, Socrates, at your making a distinction between one who is a re...

do good, not evil to their friends (Plato, 2002). As this indicates, Polemarchus works hard to defend his fathers "rule of thumb...

for which they are talented. Here, it is thought that the rulers who are willing to rule, who go into the cave, who are vocal, are...