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the supreme principle, the fundamental principle on which any well-ordered society could live (Bhandari, nd). Plato was certainl...

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

essential to the happiness of a man - having something worth living for is as important as having something worth dying for (Bloom...

right or correct, or is there something about that action itself that God recognizes, and for this reason declares the action corr...

of the same) is "reason" rather than the self-conscious "I." One may then extend the concept from ethical ideas to morality, whic...

something in Platos morality which does not really belong to Plato but is only to be met with in his philosophy, one might say in ...

the amount of knowledge that anyone has very little to do with doing things that are wrong. Now, understandably, we can see wher...

Plato emphasizes the importance of maintaining self control in the face of eros, the importance of purging the passions of the fle...

no matter how insignificant or trite they may seem. However, it would seem that he believed that there were at least two types of ...

theory of "seeing is believing" and that something must be touched in order to be a reality. According to Goellnitz, one s...

patently incorrect assumption or definition. Socrates exercises in dialogue and thinking are not entirely negative and are certa...

background, the points which Gray (2001) makes are surprising to say the least. Gray (2001) sees the war we as a society are wagi...

charges of impiety and corruption of youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens ("Socrates," 2003). While this ph...

also wrote that one could live justly only if they lived in a just society (Beck, n.d.). Plato had a number of caveats about a jus...

and ones existence. To reach true happiness, Plato contended that people must strive for a contentment that only comes from being...

that the story being told is one that has been re-told so often that it is little more than hearsay, and it is from this "story of...

had to be obtained by directing the students mind toward the discovery of what is real and important, then allowing them to deduce...

of innate knowledge, he was adamant that nothing could be learned except through experience and sensory input: "How comes [the mi...

life fulfillment and that a disabled individual should be allowed to die because their quality of life will not allow them to find...

the circumstance. In other words, if something can go wrong with it, that sense is considered inconsequential to the final outcome...

Socrates frequently alluded was the basis for his debates with Gorgias, contending that the degree of abstraction pursued by thoug...

is only preserved as a term of reproach" (Plato). He illustrates how the figures of men and women and the third figure were round ...

the more metaphysical idea that the world of the present is known as the physical world that one is able to perceive using the sen...

leg only" (Plato). If this were true, if there were only one process in regards to life-death, then everything would ultimately co...

sported the slogan "Challenge Authority." To many, it had little meaning. That is because the majority of people are sheep. They d...

around, arousing them and persuading them. He illustrates how people are often irritated by him because they feel they have been r...

as well as the people. When one views the former President of the United States, Bill Clinton, for example, one hardly thinks ab...

also supported what was known as the Theory of Ideas, which mainly stated that archetypal ideas (which rest in the universal)(Plan...

for, but for which there were certainly problems. People too easily give up on it. In his work entitled The History of the Pelopon...

Introduction The issues surrounding abortion are complex to say the least. People are polarized on the issue...