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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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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 ...

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...

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

for example, would exist even if there were no human beings there to see it, but not that colour was an independent spiritual form...

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

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

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....

individual is just it is because each part of his or her soul performs its functions properly and does not interfere with the othe...

within the domestic sphere. Therefore, a Greek man typically took a younger male as his main love interest because only a man coul...

He saw the changing world and the things within it as mere shadows or reflections of a separate world of independently existing, e...

Client self knowledge and the connection between the use of narrative therapy and the 'Allegory of the Cave' by Plato are examined...

In five pages this research essay discusses how private property is conceptualized by John Locke and Plato with the writer's own p...

looked at in the context of history and of the study of philosophy. II. Metaphysics Metaphysics is an abstract part of philos...

is an eternity to teenagers. It was his intention to tell the story of a generation coming of age in one night" (Hyams et al PG)....

education (267). One might say that the stance is rather snobbish, but many do separate vocational and academic curriculums. They ...

she taught him that the journey of the soul is to go from the immediate experience of the everyday world and ascend into a realm t...

a leader? How should a prince behave? Although the motive for Machiavelli writing this piece, and the application of this work to ...

the kings and philosophers -- should not have the right to bear children or even own their own property. This, he maintained, wou...