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of quickness and penetration, piercing easily below the clumsy platitudes of Thrasymachus to the real difficulty; he turns out to ...
a body" (Aristotle), Plato illustrates his inability to see beyond mankinds mortal connection, opting instead to focus upon a deci...
experience in religious terms, then it is not appropriate for others to describe it in terms of a purely physical experience (noti...
Plato's Apology and Aristotle's Poetics are both considered masterpieces of ancient Greek philosophy. This report compares the two...
by Eastern religions. A "Master" discerns the attainment of religious enlightenment in his novices according to how a novice beh...
then, accompanied by proof, it can therefore be called knowledge. He seems to move in circles a bit with this assertion, in that ...
tone and character with the description of Xenophon, who says in the Memorabilia that Socrates might have been acquitted if in any...
do good, not evil to their friends (Plato, 2002). As this indicates, Polemarchus works hard to defend his fathers "rule of thumb...
impious act. Euthyphro replies to Socrates claiming "I am amused, Socrates, at your making a distinction between one who is a re...
this framework. The Amish and the Mennonites are the antithesis of Macbeths nihilism, as these Anabaptist congregations reject th...
close relationships over great distances and for a long period of time, indefinitely, even with separations and loss of contact" (...
pleas, Socrates will not hear of any escape plans. He points out that, even though the sentence was unjust, it was perfectly legal...
theory of "seeing is believing" and that something must be touched in order to be a reality. According to Goellnitz, one s...
role in this respect. Plato held that the key agent in any sort of behavior but especially ethical or moral behavior (or lack of t...