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Essays 421 - 450
In five pages this paper examines The Republic in terms of what meaning Plato attached to the 'myths of the metals' and considers ...
In four pages this paper discusses equality in terms of opportunity, economics, government, and politics as considered in The Repu...
In four pages this paper examines the educational ideal of Utopia Plato presented in The Republic. There are no other sources lis...
In nine pages this paper examines the social utopia presided over by a philosopher king as described by Plato in The Republic. Th...
In three pages this paper discusses how the Athenians made class distinctions in a consideration of Socrates' noble myth depicted ...
means. The function of justice is to improve human nature, which is inherently constructive. Therefore, at a minimum, justice i...
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...
that was determined by human will, in that people choose whether or not to keep their promises (Hobbes, 1982). Those that keep th...
subject of forms. While Plato held a dual realms theory, Aristotle saw form and matter as existing in the same realm. In discussi...
interprets the ideal of freedom and to what extent they live in their own psychological prisons. Social freedom means that one wil...
had to be obtained by directing the students mind toward the discovery of what is real and important, then allowing them to deduce...
not go to reincarnation necessarily, but rather to the idea that death does not end life. On the other hand, New Ageism, Buddhism,...
surely bless you and make your descendant as numerous as the stars in the sky." Because Abraham never questioned a divine commandm...
as well as the people. When one views the former President of the United States, Bill Clinton, for example, one hardly thinks ab...
original thirteen colonies on which the new United States of America was founded removed their approval of being governed by the B...
led to alter his position. The old philosophers gave much attention to the issue of knowledge and epistemology. Aristotle ...
character of the leader nor of his ability to lead. The book is essentially about how a leader can be at his best. While it is tru...
be studied scientifically in order to derive the most rational, economic and efficient means of administering policy. The form is...
also believed in one realm. Spinoza writes: "By God, I mean a Being absolutely infinite -- that is, a substance consisting in inf...
Lysias topic is love, which in the ancient Greek world referred to the love of a man for another man. Homosexuality was practiced...
human nature is bound by the weakness of mans character? In short, Platos (1979) freed prisoner is himself, the cave reflects the...
qualities in the face of conflict or challenge. "Deliberate effort and the taking of thoughtful pains are required...Education, a...
be attacked as while many analysts will agree that Plato clearly states this in The Republic, his other works suggest other ideas....
as people do want to know things and understand (1995). Both theorists do view education as important and place a particular empha...
a democracy. Plato contended that it would be impossible within a democracy to have the kind of harmony and societal unit...
he make it eternal anyway? Many people think of the universe as something that was eternal in the first place, irrespective of wha...
is not clear how the lower classes are expected to live (1993). It is also noted that while Plato makes a case for communism for ...
a product of how "own imperfect understanding of nature, of our ignorance of how to harmonize our activities with the worlds scrip...
This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...
In three pages gender concepts are discussed in this consideration of how Plato regarded equality for women. Two sources are cite...