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

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

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...

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...

noble. Socrates was doing the right thing. Today, as people wrestle with unjust rules and laws, there are some who simply follow ...

the physical in a dramatic and practical way. While Aristotle saw the heart as just a physical organ, he had an idea that seemed t...

like Hades and the underworld; Tiresias the blind seer; and other references to death and dying (Plato). They decide they have to...

off than those who remain in the cave. Before delving into an analysis, it pays to explore the allegory as laid out by Plato. Wh...

if he has acquired the knowledge he could not have acquired it in this life, unless he has been taught geometry; for he may be mad...

like knowledge itself, is secure. Indeed, according to Plato correct opinion is a guide to knowledge. To be correct, opinions th...

thought that the Theory of Forms was useless when it came to explaining the material world "because the connection between the two...

people must strive for a knowledge that only comes from being true to ones own choice. According to Plato, men and women both hav...

what was passing in the world around them, to the realm of re-presentative intellect. An external phenomenon is thus translated i...

can one know what is beautiful or what is ugly? There must be some sort of shared experience. Plato uses a cave allegory--somethi...

soul, as imaged by Plato, is made up of the qualities of reason, spirit and desire or appetite (Honderich, et al, 1995). The "reas...

This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...

in order to be just. Many are familiar with the tales of Sodom and Gomorrah from the bible. They understand that many cities had ...

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...

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

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

idea creates a "binary logic," in which evil is conceptualized as an "entity, a quality that is inherent in some people and not in...

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

could be products of society, but never the causes, or it would alter the objectivity of sociology as a science (Hamilton, 1995). ...

In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at Plato's theories of Forms. Parmenides' views on change provide a counterpoint. Paper ...

This paper discusses different parts of Plato's Republic. There is a discussion of natural law legal theory and legal positivist t...

This essay pertains to Plato's perception of rhetoric and the role of eros, as indicated by his texts Gorgias and Phaedrus. Five p...

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

of his text The Republic, Plato presents one of Western civilizations most accurate conceptualizations of the tremendous influence...

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