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An Analysis of a Case Study Regarding a Life and Death Decision

Kamath (2007) goes through all the possible outcomes regarding this dilemma. He explains that if the operation goes forth, there a...

Education, Arete or Virtue, and Plato

like knowledge itself, is secure. Indeed, according to Plato correct opinion is a guide to knowledge. To be correct, opinions th...

Plato's Philosophy and Criticisms

thought that the Theory of Forms was useless when it came to explaining the material world "because the connection between the two...

Meno by Plato and Recollection Theory Relevance

if he has acquired the knowledge he could not have acquired it in this life, unless he has been taught geometry; for he may be mad...

How Aristotle Opposes Plato's Attack on Poetry

the lyrics in modern songs, and in essence, the poets of today are Eminem and Jay Zee and Beyonce. Lyrics to emanate from these ar...

Diotima's Ideas on the Fairness of Love

she proved to me as I proved to him that, by my own showing, Love was neither fair nor good. " Here, the idea that love is powerfu...

Elements in Plato's Republic

fundamental importance in the Republic of the metaphor of descent and its connection to the two great themes of birth and death, a...

Belief in the Gods and Plato's Practice of Open Inquiry

has many flaws. There is question as to whether or not the method really gets to the truth at all. In fact, one has to wonder whet...

“Apology” and “The Passion of Christ”

most part. He was clearly setting himself up as some sort of martyr or individual who would ultimately bring about change to the s...

Plato's Allegory of the Cave and Religion

off than those who remain in the cave. Before delving into an analysis, it pays to explore the allegory as laid out by Plato. Wh...

Analyzing the Iraq War through Works by Plato and Aristophanes

noble. Socrates was doing the right thing. Today, as people wrestle with unjust rules and laws, there are some who simply follow ...

Plato's Concepts and the Superiority of Aristotle

the physical in a dramatic and practical way. While Aristotle saw the heart as just a physical organ, he had an idea that seemed t...

Plato's Examination of the Soul

In a paper that consists of eight pages Plato's interpretation of the soul and its parts are explored along with a discussion of t...

Soul Concepts of Plato

In a type of author/character debate, Plato explores the premises of his theory by having Socrates debate them. Plato theorized ...

Current American Leadership as Viewed by Plato

In seven pages the cave allegory featured in Plato's Republic is applied to contemporary U.S. political leadership. Four sources ...

Sociopolitical Classes of Plato and Their Parallels

soul, as imaged by Plato, is made up of the qualities of reason, spirit and desire or appetite (Honderich, et al, 1995). The "reas...

Knowledge and Philosophy

This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...

Republic by Plato and the 'Just City'

in order to be just. Many are familiar with the tales of Sodom and Gomorrah from the bible. They understand that many cities had ...

Concept of a Spiritual Journey

and with that has come an interest in spirituality itself, outside of any religious context. It is this search for a truth that m...

Comparison of the Philosophical Concepts of Plato and Martin Heidegger

can one know what is beautiful or what is ugly? There must be some sort of shared experience. Plato uses a cave allegory--somethi...

Men's and Women's Education and the Philosophy of Plato

people must strive for a knowledge that only comes from being true to ones own choice. According to Plato, men and women both hav...

Thucydides v. Plato in Defining the Good Life

what was passing in the world around them, to the realm of re-presentative intellect. An external phenomenon is thus translated i...

The Republic by Plato and Poetry

like Hades and the underworld; Tiresias the blind seer; and other references to death and dying (Plato). They decide they have to...

Plato and Gender

unison (Rosen, 2005). Plato (1996) writes: "Is not the community of pleasure and pain the tie that binds? The sharing, to the grea...

Achilles and Socrates

ghost, a phantom-true, but no real breath of life" (23.122-23). This minimal survival apparently depends on the appropriate funera...

Culture, Education and Legislation in Plato's Laws

three characters (a stranger from Athens; Cleinias, from Crete; and Megillus, a Lacedaemonian) are discussing their various types ...

Plato's Apology/Capital Punishment & Academic Freedom

knew nothing and was far from wise, he sets upon a course of action to find someone wiser than himself to offer to the Oracle as r...

Jury Member Speaks Out on Socrates’ Innocence

brought against me, and with my earliest accusers, and then with the later ones" (Plato, 1961, 18b). First, Socrates has been acc...

Plato's View of Who Should Rule

for which they are talented. Here, it is thought that the rulers who are willing to rule, who go into the cave, who are vocal, are...

The Life of Socrates

could be products of society, but never the causes, or it would alter the objectivity of sociology as a science (Hamilton, 1995). ...