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how the individual, the personality, that is a human being is likely never to experience an afterlife. In this we see that Flew do...
youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...
offer a profusion of pleasures... injustice pays better than justice" (364b). Next, Socrates appeared to shift gears and direct t...
they know was agreed upon in full assembly; and should it be decided that this is not so, the poor have discovered a hundred excus...
societys goods (Platos Political Theory, 2002). They were satisfied with their lives and held back from being passionate natured ...
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...
charges of impiety and corruption of youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens ("Socrates," 2003). While this ph...
background, the points which Gray (2001) makes are surprising to say the least. Gray (2001) sees the war we as a society are wagi...
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...
believe. Deweys central thesis is rather controversial, but is seemingly valid, and has withstood the test of time. Indeed, Deweys...
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...
very powerful and just individual, putting aside the fact she was a woman. While this speaks of men, and fighting for justice, one...
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...
happens, people fail to achieve happiness and feel only increased levels of stress (Morris, 1997). If businesses incorporated Ar...
sported the slogan "Challenge Authority." To many, it had little meaning. That is because the majority of people are sheep. They d...
smartest beings when it comes to illustrating their capacity for cultivating and understanding knowledge; therefore, the value of ...
this pint he is, in essence, pleading for his life and states, "I dare say that you may feel irritated at being suddenly awakened ...
the best" (the literal definition of aristocracy) was to be achieved. This scenario, by its very nature, assured the manifestatio...
that the story being told is one that has been re-told so often that it is little more than hearsay, and it is from this "story of...
moral fact by levying skepticism towards the basis of those moral truths and facts (Sinnott-Armstrong, 2011). For instance, one mi...
view is that the appetite for wisdom is the most noble of the possible forces that can drive humanity, and as such, the one which ...
Near-death experiences (NDE) have been reported since ancient times. Even Plato reported one. In recent decades, there have been t...
In a paper of thirteen pages, the writer looks at classical texts by Francis Bacon and Plato. The allegory of the cave and the fou...
This essay reports on three adult learning theories and relates them to the writer's experience. The theories are Freire, Mezirow,...
This essay pertain to the way Plato and Nietzsche perceived the character and philosophy of Socrates. Seven pages in length, five ...
various experiences are provided by Socrates and the others. In some way, the work examines the idea of power. After all, if someo...
tragedy" (Cai, 1999, p. 317). For Confucius, the focus was much narrower: when he considered poetry, he was thinking of the Book o...
and Aristotle are philosophers who discuss virtue. Yet, Yu (1998) claims that when it comes to virtue, neither Aristotle or Confu...