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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....

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 ...

(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...

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...

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, ...

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

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

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...

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 ...

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

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

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...

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)....

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

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...

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

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...

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

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