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Essays 271 - 300
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...
online than in real life; the fact that they can start and end interactions whenever they choose also increases their confidence a...
unison (Rosen, 2005). Plato (1996) writes: "Is not the community of pleasure and pain the tie that binds? The sharing, to the grea...
as the emotions of like, and physical attraction (Sternberg; Barnes, 1989). Where the decision or commitment component is involves...
In five pages the fine line betwen love and hate is examined in a discussion of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short stor, 'Young Goodman B...
possible fat man in that doorway; and again, the possible bald man in that doorway. Are they the same possible men, or two possibl...
cousins wife and when he was killed by a tram, Inez took her in (Sartre). But Inez tortured Florence by constantly reminding her o...
ghost, a phantom-true, but no real breath of life" (23.122-23). This minimal survival apparently depends on the appropriate funera...
(Washington State University, 2004). Plato asserts that our perceptions are essentially "shadows" of real objects. In ot...
individual to the spiritual and the universe. According to the scala amoris, then, love is that which in its highest and purest se...
it threatens what they each have come to see as the status quo of their lives. However, as this new experience begins to give each...
William Blake writes somberly: O Rose, thou art sick. The invisible worm That flies in the night In the howling storm Has foun...
try to be more than they are. In this poem we have a simple boy who works and praises God. He is told that the Pope praises God as...
of death, as well as the mystery of death. This establishes a foundation from which we can learn, especially considering that Nula...
are afraid because ignorant, and perceive the pain and not the benefits; nor do they apprehend that a sick soul is worse than a si...
is no realistic political system, for it takes considerably more than one mans word to impart a true sense of unity. "Thus, for y...
from the fact that I realized that I knew nothing. A man of my era named Chaerephon once asked the Oracle at Delphi is there w...
people must strive for a knowledge that only comes from being true to ones own choice. According to Plato, men and women both hav...
love that both lives and dies upon ones overzealous sense of passion. "There was a time when I thought I loved my first wife more...
and with that has come an interest in spirituality itself, outside of any religious context. It is this search for a truth that m...
can one know what is beautiful or what is ugly? There must be some sort of shared experience. Plato uses a cave allegory--somethi...
soul, as imaged by Plato, is made up of the qualities of reason, spirit and desire or appetite (Honderich, et al, 1995). The "reas...
in order to be just. Many are familiar with the tales of Sodom and Gomorrah from the bible. They understand that many cities had ...
a weapon to the hands of a madman is obviously unjust. Taylor (2003) comments on how this refutation of Cephalus position demonstr...
n.d.). Plato did talk about God, in Timaeus, Plato said that if God made the world as perfect then the soul must be perfect, also ...
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...
In a type of author/character debate, Plato explores the premises of his theory by having Socrates debate them. Plato theorized ...
In seven pages the cave allegory featured in Plato's Republic is applied to contemporary U.S. political leadership. Four sources ...
This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...
In ten pages this paper examines how women's societal roles are represented in Plato's The Apology, Dante's 'The Inferno,' William...