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why so many people had to suffer. No matter the cause, the gods were not looked on with the reverence they had once enjoyed, and t...

Aristotles concrete, scientific theories are more relevant than Platos deductive and abstract ideology. Aristotle believed...

be quantified. That is, ones life may be the truth, but it cannot be articulated as the truth. Still, there had been much debate b...

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

other programs are designed to be more educational with interactive discussions between the inmates and the youth" (Schembri, 2006...

This essay pertain to the way Plato and Nietzsche perceived the character and philosophy of Socrates. Seven pages in length, five ...

his words appear incredibly arrogant and seem to stray off the topic, as the words illustrate his intelligence and depth more than...

the individual and a definition of justice. There are three classes for the state to function properly: artisans, who are skilled ...

virtue, i.e., justice, but it is also included under Aquinas discussion of love, specifically under love of ones neighbor, for Go...

that is permanent and immutable. It is this world that is more real; the world of change is merely an imperfect image of this worl...

culpable. It is true that many other nations, such as France, opposed the war effort in Iraq. Did the U.S. overstep its bounds? Wh...

"what is justice?" and after a definition is provided, Socrates gets the interlocutor to make a statement that would obviously con...

come after Plato, not before. (This example is found in Book VII of The Republic, which is available online.) As Im sure youll ...

of science there are two branches which are epistemology and metaphysics (Honderich, 1995). Science makes up an important part of ...

Christ. The polytheistic society of ancient Greece was already moving toward belief in a single god by the time of Plato and his ...

the street ... must and will reflect our personal moral standards" (Reavley, 2001). Those moral standards, Reavley implies, must ...

only thing that is known is what is presently occurring. In other words, if something is out of ones eyesight and experience, it i...

to return to the cave because its familiar and comfortable? The answer to all these questions is "yes." (Allegory of the Cave, 2...

it comes to knowledge leads one to believe that people are much more likely to act out in such a manner that is motivated only by ...

Indeed, one might readily surmise that Plato believed man was a product of how "own imperfect understanding of nature, of our igno...

(Garrett(1)). In addition these gods possess many human traits such as jealousy and envy. As Garrett(1) states, "These gods, mo...

(2002) argument is based on his experiences as first a federal prosecutor, then a trial judge, and finally a California Superior C...

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...

human being for a short span of time. The cave allegory is quite well known and has been used by many to interpret Platos philosop...

Ulman, 2005, PG). In order to construct a successful argument for a particular position, therefore, one has to first amass th...

a product of how "own imperfect understanding of nature, of our ignorance of how to harmonize our activities with the worlds scrip...

This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...

In three pages gender concepts are discussed in this consideration of how Plato regarded equality for women. Two sources are cite...

of veracity. This is because each segment of humanity is its own little universe and what is held to be truth in one section of th...

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