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Essays 61 - 90
the law of property and of inequality" (04.htm). While Locke essentially agreed with Rousseau that in a natural state, humanity l...
In two pages this essay examines the acquisition of happiness through electronic means and also considers what the father of Utili...
The issue of the 'right to happiness' is discussed within the context of the Blade Runner film and its presentation of freedoms, s...
the truth that the world isnt perfect, and acting on what feeds happiness. Baker defines happy people as fighters, who unde...
factor in American life; that and technology in all its glory, which has no faults whatever. This paper is a response to Jonestown...
In eight pages ethical dilemmas such as cloning and genetic engineering are examined within the context of these two classic works...
In three pages genetic engineering as they are represented in these two literary works are contrasted and compared in terms of the...
if "what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting like a good or bad man" ("Apology" 28b)(Plato 32-33). In regards to how ...
For example, Bostick (1935) makes copious use of footnotes, drawing on the works of Plato and Xenophon, who were two of Socrates d...
would lead to an early death, he said, "... a man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; h...
your statement, I am sorry to say, fails to express a similar concern for the conditions that brought about the demonstrations. I ...
the end of the Gita, Arjuna says "The delusion is gone...by your grace I have recovered my wits. Here I stand with no more doubts....
Clouds by Aristophanes. Reasonably, Socrates points out that the character in the play speaks nonsense and should not be confused...
brought against me, and with my earliest accusers, and then with the later ones" (Plato, 1961, 18b). First, Socrates has been acc...
as a teacher, is to free his students from the cave and metaphorically drag them into the sunlight. The selection from Phaedo reco...
a weapon to the hands of a madman is obviously unjust. Taylor (2003) comments on how this refutation of Cephalus position demonstr...
much that it has immeasurably been altered. Who was Socrates and why was he so influential? Socrates was a Greek philosopher who ...
Socrates frequently alluded was the basis for his debates with Gorgias, contending that the degree of abstraction pursued by thoug...
The only manner by which to acquire good statesmen and lawgivers, according to Socrates testimony, is to assure their individual a...
something in Platos morality which does not really belong to Plato but is only to be met with in his philosophy, one might say in ...
things in the sky and below the earth, who makes the worse argument the stronger " (cited in Ross, 2000, p. PG). This is a formula...
the soul. In understanding the influence the pre-Socratics had, it is beneficial to consider some of the major questions and the ...
soul has two principal parts. The first part of this argument is that nature inevitably follows a cyclical pattern. All vegetatio...
offer a profusion of pleasures... injustice pays better than justice" (364b). Next, Socrates appeared to shift gears and direct t...
(4e). Intrigued by this conclusion, Socrates implores Euthyphro to share with him his definition of piety, distinguishing betwee...
this pint he is, in essence, pleading for his life and states, "I dare say that you may feel irritated at being suddenly awakened ...
with sickness, or the pilot who helps friends against "the perils of the sea" (Plato Book I). He then inquires into "what sort of ...
charges of impiety and corruption of youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens ("Socrates," 2003). While this ph...
leg only" (Plato). If this were true, if there were only one process in regards to life-death, then everything would ultimately co...
In five pages an analysis evaluates the accuracy of Socrates' description of the cave's prisoners as 'like ourselves.' There are ...