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Essays 151 - 180
This paper consists of eight pages and considers the injustice of the trial Socrates received in an attempt to determine whether o...
This paper consists of five pages and argues that Socrates was a religious man despite arguments to the contrary and cites evidenc...
In five pages this paper examines the justifiability of civil disobedience in a consideration of several philosophers and theori...
the amount of knowledge that anyone has very little to do with doing things that are wrong. Now, understandably, we can see wher...
In six pages this paper examines Plato's Gorgias which describes a philosophical dialogue between the title character and Socrates...
In 5 pages this paper examines the reactions to public school prayer by this trio of social philosophers and what advice each woul...
upon expressing an objective truth. For example, approving of an action and stating that the action is right can be construed as ...
In six pages this research paper considers how the death concept was applied to the scheme of life through the classical Greek phi...
In three pages this paper discusses how Socrates can be studied by reading the dialogues of his most famous student. There are no...
This paper consists of five pages and discusses how virtue is exemplified by the Greek philosopher Socrates with 2 Platonic dialog...
Plato demonstrates Socratess reason for remaining imprisoned even though he had opportunity to escape and the Phaedo addresses phi...
This paper consists of four pages and evaluates the guilty verdict Socrates received in terms of whether or not it represented the...
(he disguised himself as a woman and attended rites which only women could witness). Socrates is being held responsible for the i...
assignment to the highest post in the state which could be obtained by a commoner such as himself (Owen, 1997). In...
teaching, in which he pretended not to know the answers to questions, so that students would come to understanding on their own. ...
As in most of his essays, Freud (1952), in Civilization and its Discontents, wrestles with human nature and why there is such a ch...
was that all humans are born with an inherent worth which he labeled human dignity (Mazur, 1993). He further felt that human dign...
(Saxonhouse, 1998). This is something thought not to lead to violence, but rather to a profound gentleness (Saxonhouse, 1998). In ...
as the Socratic dialogue that in many ways can be compared to todays constructivist approach to education in which he "drew forth ...
do good, not evil to their friends (Plato, 2002). As this indicates, Polemarchus works hard to defend his fathers "rule of thumb...
that Pericles was a man who felt a powerful sense of duty to his city. He was, after all, an official who stood as one who support...
of the United States. Without the philosophies of those that lived in the centuries prior to the U.S. Declaration of Independence...
after a lifetime devoted to the pursuit of truth and virtue, Socrates, at age 70, was put on trial in Athens and charged with dish...
In five pages this paper examines a hypothetical contemporary dialogue between these 3 philosophers on how daily life features vir...
would have meant he was born in 469 B.C. (Taylor 4). According to Socrates trial indictment, he was born in Alopeke, which was lo...
In eight pages the philosophies of these great ancient Greek thinkers on these topics are examined with terms including peitho, ag...
is often called the father of Western philosophy, reinforces a legal system that survives to this day in the United States, and in...
cast them as slaves of the elite. This action of stripping an individuals inherent rights as a human being can be nothing other t...
as horses - he points out - teach each other how to be the species of animal they are hardwired to be, which is in direct oppositi...
do not justify the means. It is what a person does-his actual acts-that is most relevant. For example, in Crito, Socrates argues t...