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Essays 181 - 210
online than in real life; the fact that they can start and end interactions whenever they choose also increases their confidence a...
old age. There is a symbolic reality to the novel that is always filled with a sense of illness and decay, which are all intricate...
of his text The Republic, Plato presents one of Western civilizations most accurate conceptualizations of the tremendous influence...
Kamath (2007) goes through all the possible outcomes regarding this dilemma. He explains that if the operation goes forth, there a...
group, which itself was a well-regarded and well-educated order (Harris, 2001). As an advocate for a strong papacy, he commanded a...
Song is an aging man who longs for love, particularly courtly love that fits with his expectations of both women and love....
for the student of psychology to develop a well-rounded and complete understanding of the discipline, it is necessary to study bot...
would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images" (Plato, 1969. p. 409). He then likens the philosopher to a prisoner who ...
wish, they have other freedoms that are perhaps not as obvious. Brave New World supports the hedonistic view. That is, Huxley (199...
One author notes how "often couples in love do not see stark differences that are obvious to others in their personality. Love oft...
to her parents, her teachers, and her classmates that something was diverting her attentions from her studies and even from her fa...
truly understand Gods word: "I ask Thee, my God: pardon my sins, and as Thou didst grant to Thy servant to speak those words, gran...
in order to insure passage to the underworld. The Underworld in this mythology was not a particularly happy place; it was a gloomy...
This paper offers two blog posts. One on "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and the other on "Sex without Love" by Sharon Olds....
Death is usually an awkward topic and one many people avoid even when facing the impending death of a loved one. Some believe that...
This essay focuses on Plato's use of dialogue in his "Apology" and "Crito," and Augustine's use of the monologue in his "Confessio...
This essay pertains to Plato's perception of rhetoric and the role of eros, as indicated by his texts Gorgias and Phaedrus. Five p...
This paper considers the quest for maturity of a Christian, a quest delineated in Roberta C. Bondi's book, To Love as God Loves. ...
In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at Plato's theories of Forms. Parmenides' views on change provide a counterpoint. Paper ...
This paper discusses different parts of Plato's Republic. There is a discussion of natural law legal theory and legal positivist t...
philosophical thought begs to differ. In the pre-Plato period, for example, the prevailing belief was that pleasure was immediate ...
have merit, they are essentially inapplicable to our contemporary concerns regarding knowledge. In other words, while knowledge m...
at once managed for himself to become one of the envoys to the king ; upon arrival, having seduced his wife, with her help, he lai...
of subjective satisfaction (Seifert, 2003). Moral goodness just is. One looks at a baby or a puppy and thinks that these living th...
enjoying the fact that many people have bleeding hearts from love. The narrator is clearly an individual who has been harmed by...
know what they, themselves, look like. One day, one of the people breaks free from the chains and makes it back to the outside o...
yet does not lose faith in the just and true" (Plato Jowett Translation Characters). In this we see that Plato appears to be indic...
would be clearly dependent upon the eye of the beholder. Therefore, the conclusions were not judgments, per se, but were response...
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...
"It did not seem to me to be a time to guard myself / against Loves blows: so I went on / confident, unsuspecting; from that, my t...