YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Excerpt from Euthyphro by Plato
Essays 361 - 390
"what is justice?" and after a definition is provided, Socrates gets the interlocutor to make a statement that would obviously con...
(Sophocles). In this she is arguing how she has not followed the laws of "men" or even of the gods in this case, but rather per...
who will eventually hold office and decide what to pursue in respect to issues like abortion, stem cell research and capital punis...
This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...
In three pages gender concepts are discussed in this consideration of how Plato regarded equality for women. Two sources are cite...
to return to the cave because its familiar and comfortable? The answer to all these questions is "yes." (Allegory of the Cave, 2...
a product of how "own imperfect understanding of nature, of our ignorance of how to harmonize our activities with the worlds scrip...
only thing that is known is what is presently occurring. In other words, if something is out of ones eyesight and experience, it i...
come after Plato, not before. (This example is found in Book VII of The Republic, which is available online.) As Im sure youll ...
of science there are two branches which are epistemology and metaphysics (Honderich, 1995). Science makes up an important part of ...
because it is supposed to produce truth in the end. The essence of this method is a process that usually begins with Socrates ask...
interaction with the world, ourselves, and others. Our perceptual capacities are not fixed; they are not static or one-dimensiona...
stratification of society. The rulers tell the populace that the divisions between one social group and another are because of div...
the harp is broken the music stops; if the human dies, doesnt the soul also vanish? (Plato). It is to answer these concerns and ar...
very powerful and just individual, putting aside the fact she was a woman. While this speaks of men, and fighting for justice, one...
possibly think?" (I.3). As this indicates, Aristotles perspective is grounded in observation and reality. He sees the mind as intr...
why so many people had to suffer. No matter the cause, the gods were not looked on with the reverence they had once enjoyed, and t...
be quantified. That is, ones life may be the truth, but it cannot be articulated as the truth. Still, there had been much debate b...
Aristotles concrete, scientific theories are more relevant than Platos deductive and abstract ideology. Aristotle believed...
major argument in favor of poetry; that it was an educational tool that could be used in the instruction of moral values. Sidne...
smartest beings when it comes to illustrating their capacity for cultivating and understanding knowledge; therefore, the value of ...
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...
the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...
wine and pleasure, and rejecting the cold and structured nature of Apollonian society. For them, to be human is to follow ones bas...
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...
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...
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...