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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...

is good (Frost 84). For Socrates, "a life which is always inquiring and trying to discover what is good is the best kind of life, ...

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....

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...

his argument to the priestess who taught him mysteries in his youth, Diotima of Mantinea. Attributing his words to Diotima, Socrat...

wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves social needs. A number of philosophers have contributed to the debate which...

the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...

words, "how does one KNOW that this is the truth". Most of Socrates teaching took place on the steps of a Lyceum, much like an a...

believe. Deweys central thesis is rather controversial, but is seemingly valid, and has withstood the test of time. Indeed, Deweys...

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...

societys goods (Platos Political Theory, 2002). They were satisfied with their lives and held back from being passionate natured ...

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

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...

wine and pleasure, and rejecting the cold and structured nature of Apollonian society. For them, to be human is to follow ones bas...

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

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)....

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 ...

trial for treason and his thoughts prior to his execution. These are the Apology, the Crito and the Phaedo, which is an account of...