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In twenty five pages this paper examines the philosophies of Aristotle, Socrates, and Plato as they influenced the origins of the...

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the philosophies of Socrates and Aristotle with virtue concepts being the primary ...

In six pages virtue as defined by the philosophies of Aristotle and Plato and their continuity are examined. There are 5 sources ...

VI of "Nicomachean Ethics", goodness under the concept presented by Plato suggests almost an unattainable element, and it was Aris...

be composed of three sections: the deliberative, the executive, and the judicial. We can see why those who drafted the United St...

In ten pages this paper refers to the writings of Thucydides, Aristotle, and Plato in a consideration of past and present politica...

In six pages this research paper considers how the death concept was applied to the scheme of life through the classical Greek phi...

Since approximately 700 B. C., astronomy had a great deal to do with keeping time (PG). Natural periods of time were generated th...

he did not know the true cause of an action he would readily admit to not knowing. This should not be mistaken however for a will...

This paper examines the history of philosophy and philosophers. The author discusses key figures in philosophy such as Aristotle,...

In seven pages the philosophical arguments by Plato and Aristotle regarding knowledge involves discussion of its source, acquisiti...

a leader? How should a prince behave? Although the motive for Machiavelli writing this piece, and the application of this work to ...

can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees it as symbolic of humans o...

also believed in one realm. Spinoza writes: "By God, I mean a Being absolutely infinite -- that is, a substance consisting in inf...

Christ. The polytheistic society of ancient Greece was already moving toward belief in a single god by the time of Plato and his ...

that is permanent and immutable. It is this world that is more real; the world of change is merely an imperfect image of this worl...

In ten pages this tutorial paper imagines a lively dialogue between political philosophers including St. Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle...

who will eventually hold office and decide what to pursue in respect to issues like abortion, stem cell research and capital punis...

human being for a short span of time. The cave allegory is quite well known and has been used by many to interpret Platos philosop...

Ulman, 2005, PG). In order to construct a successful argument for a particular position, therefore, one has to first amass th...

This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...

of science there are two branches which are epistemology and metaphysics (Honderich, 1995). Science makes up an important part of ...

as the original Greek legal process aspired to achieve such status, it can readily be said that its integrity has been severely co...

education is still substantially elevated in contemporary culture. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees virtue as choice and so mora...

84). However, Socrates is willing to concede that an individual can desire an evil thing if he mistakenly first evaluates it as go...

right or correct, or is there something about that action itself that God recognizes, and for this reason declares the action corr...

Plato emphasizes the importance of maintaining self control in the face of eros, the importance of purging the passions of the fle...

for, but for which there were certainly problems. People too easily give up on it. In his work entitled The History of the Pelopon...

wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves social needs. A number of philosophers have contributed to the debate which...

the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...