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

suggest that both love and hate can be taught (Plato). We can further extrapolate from that to conclude that if a nation is in har...

pre-industrial city and pertains to the countrys early history. The essays in this section of the book pertain to "some of the int...

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...

fact, contended that: "even under the best arrangements a considerable margin of irresponsible conduct of...

the preexistence of the soul, and the separate existence of forms work together or not? Thats a lot of questions to tackle, and to...

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

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...

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

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...

to say that conservatives generally prefer the status quo, and look at the past with longing, while liberals work for change, beli...

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

Using the views of Lipset and Rokkan (1967), this paper comments on the ways political parties can become unstable. There are six...

first world nation economies. A good example of this was the multi-fibre agreement. Many developing countries, such as China, ha...

for the student of psychology to develop a well-rounded and complete understanding of the discipline, it is necessary to study bot...

there was a general trend in the overall increase in the number of German citizens that were voting. Figures are more meaningful c...

screen media, but that this learning is dependent on three interrelated factors, which are the: "attributes of the child; characte...

wish, they have other freedoms that are perhaps not as obvious. Brave New World supports the hedonistic view. That is, Huxley (199...

it is wise to be wary of people who are quick to dump on a passionate temperament, particularly during conservative social and pol...

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

"sex-obsessed," but Frieda argues that Lawrence was "simply pro-human" and that because D.H. Lawrence wrote what he did, "...the y...

possible fat man in that doorway; and again, the possible bald man in that doorway. Are they the same possible men, or two possibl...

with only 13% of white non Hispanic citizens being uninsured compared with 17% of Asians/Pacific Islanders, 22% of blacks and 36%...

in order to insure passage to the underworld. The Underworld in this mythology was not a particularly happy place; it was a gloomy...

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...

is clear that each of them has some wish in his mind that he cant articulate; instead, like an oracle, he half-grasps what he want...

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 research paper offers a discussion of the characteristics of civilian review boards and internal affairs as methods for addre...

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 research paper/essay addresses the view of historian Robert Shell on the nature of slavery in South Africa's Cape Colony and ...