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

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

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

led to alter his position. The old philosophers gave much attention to the issue of knowledge and epistemology. Aristotle ...

be studied scientifically in order to derive the most rational, economic and efficient means of administering policy. The form is...

also believed in one realm. Spinoza writes: "By God, I mean a Being absolutely infinite -- that is, a substance consisting in inf...

Lysias topic is love, which in the ancient Greek world referred to the love of a man for another man. Homosexuality was practiced...

human nature is bound by the weakness of mans character? In short, Platos (1979) freed prisoner is himself, the cave reflects the...

qualities in the face of conflict or challenge. "Deliberate effort and the taking of thoughtful pains are required...Education, a...

surely bless you and make your descendant as numerous as the stars in the sky." Because Abraham never questioned a divine commandm...

he make it eternal anyway? Many people think of the universe as something that was eternal in the first place, irrespective of wha...

not go to reincarnation necessarily, but rather to the idea that death does not end life. On the other hand, New Ageism, Buddhism,...

as people do want to know things and understand (1995). Both theorists do view education as important and place a particular empha...

a democracy. Plato contended that it would be impossible within a democracy to have the kind of harmony and societal unit...

In ten pages this tutorial paper imagines a lively dialogue between political philosophers including St. Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...