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Choosing a Philosopher

quickly taking over the world, leaving no room for anything else" (Williams, Dustin and McKenney, 2004). In his view, we were leav...

Socrates, Religion And "The Apology"

millennia worth of philosophical comprehension of mans existence. For those who depend upon traditional practice to shepherd them...

Pre-Socratic Philosophers as Compared with Later Thinkers

of fire (The New York Times, 2008). He lived during the late fifth century BC (The New York Times, 2008). The Eleatic school for i...

The Cave and The Divided Line

student sees in relationship to what the image can present: "but of the ideas which they resemble; not of the figures which they d...

God’s Existence: Craig, Socrates, and Nietzsche

if they were not a part of society then it would be obvious that God did not exist. In relationship to what other philosophers fro...

Happiness and Individuality According to Socrates and Huxley

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

Morals, Morality and Ethics

The writer discusses the moral and ethical positions of several philosophers including Ayer, Smith, Mackie, Socrates and Glaucon. ...

Jacques-Louis David: “The Death of Socrates”

First, Socrates, who is obviously the focus of the painting, is sitting up, still teaching as shown by his raised left hand. Hes m...

Achilles and Socrates

ghost, a phantom-true, but no real breath of life" (23.122-23). This minimal survival apparently depends on the appropriate funera...

Socrates, Rationalism, Behaviorism and Psychology

always do the good" and, therefore, is someone goes astray, it is because they lack the knowledge of how to "act rightly" (Shiraev...

Happiness and Individuality/Socrates and Huxley

individuality and happiness are intrinsically related, as the achievement of personal happiness is associated with obtaining the i...

An Analysis of a Case Study Regarding a Life and Death Decision

Kamath (2007) goes through all the possible outcomes regarding this dilemma. He explains that if the operation goes forth, there a...

Philsophical Issues

ethical theory that supports killing off twice as many people to save half as many because you like them better. That is unethica...

Nietzsche and Plato, Views on Socrates

This essay pertain to the way Plato and Nietzsche perceived the character and philosophy of Socrates. Seven pages in length, five ...

Freud And Socrates: Response

persons subconscious thoughts. Dreams harbor the repression of ones unconscious personality characteristics, a theory many ...

Socrates and Machiavelli Compared

do not justify the means. It is what a person does-his actual acts-that is most relevant. For example, in Crito, Socrates argues t...

"The Last Days Of Socrates" - Euthyphro's Actions

consternation. Firstly, Socrates cares not how pious Euthyphro has been, explaining how the number of pious acts has absolutely n...

Philosophical Similarities of Aristotle, Plato, and Socrates

(Saxonhouse, 1998). This is something thought not to lead to violence, but rather to a profound gentleness (Saxonhouse, 1998). In ...

Socrates: Horses In "Apology"

as horses - he points out - teach each other how to be the species of animal they are hardwired to be, which is in direct oppositi...

Elenchos According to Socrates

always employs the dialogue not only as a didactic device, but as a technique for the actual discovery of opinions amongst men, th...

School Prayer and the Perspectives of Socrates, Henry David Thoreau, and Martin Luther King Jr.

In 5 pages this paper examines the reactions to public school prayer by this trio of social philosophers and what advice each woul...

Aristotle, Plato, and Socrates

In eight pages this paper examines these 3 primary Greek philosophers in a contrast and comparison of their similarities and diffe...

Knowledge According to Socrates and Descartes

This research report looks at how knowledge is acquired according to these two theorists. A great deal of information is contained...

Philosophical Perspectives of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle

In ten pages this trio of philosophers and their philosophies are contrasted and compared. Ten sources are cited in the bibliogra...

Comparison of Socrates, Alexander the Great, and Confucius

assignment to the highest post in the state which could be obtained by a commoner such as himself (Owen, 1997). In...

Socrates and Machiavelli on Leadership

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...

Imaginary Dialogue Between Socrates and Sen. Jesse Helms

an imaginary podium, and is steadily building volume when Socrates interrupts.) Socrates: Oh, I see. Then the nude statuary that s...

Morality and Reason According to Plato, Socrates, and Sigmund Freud

inquiring and trying to discover what is good is the best kind of life, the only life worth living" (Frost, 1962, 84). As this de...

Socrates

would have meant he was born in 469 B.C. (Taylor 4). According to Socrates trial indictment, he was born in Alopeke, which was lo...

Ideologies of Machiavelli, Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle on Democratic Rule

of the United States. Without the philosophies of those that lived in the centuries prior to the U.S. Declaration of Independence...