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various experiences are provided by Socrates and the others. In some way, the work examines the idea of power. After all, if someo...

major argument in favor of poetry; that it was an educational tool that could be used in the instruction of moral values. Sidne...

smartest beings when it comes to illustrating their capacity for cultivating and understanding knowledge; therefore, the value of ...

very powerful and just individual, putting aside the fact she was a woman. While this speaks of men, and fighting for justice, one...

possibly think?" (I.3). As this indicates, Aristotles perspective is grounded in observation and reality. He sees the mind as intr...

allowing people to understand and accept other lifestyles other than their own. However, this is no longer true; while America ma...

and ones existence. To reach true happiness, Plato contended that people must strive for a contentment that only comes from being...

that the story being told is one that has been re-told so often that it is little more than hearsay, and it is from this "story of...

sported the slogan "Challenge Authority." To many, it had little meaning. That is because the majority of people are sheep. They d...

background, the points which Gray (2001) makes are surprising to say the least. Gray (2001) sees the war we as a society are wagi...

also wrote that one could live justly only if they lived in a just society (Beck, n.d.). Plato had a number of caveats about a jus...

this pint he is, in essence, pleading for his life and states, "I dare say that you may feel irritated at being suddenly awakened ...

had to be obtained by directing the students mind toward the discovery of what is real and important, then allowing them to deduce...

of innate knowledge, he was adamant that nothing could be learned except through experience and sensory input: "How comes [the mi...

the best" (the literal definition of aristocracy) was to be achieved. This scenario, by its very nature, assured the manifestatio...

charges of impiety and corruption of youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens ("Socrates," 2003). While this ph...

the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...

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

Near-death experiences (NDE) have been reported since ancient times. Even Plato reported one. In recent decades, there have been t...

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at American and Greek democracies. The Republic of Plato is also presented in summary-f...

This essay reports on three adult learning theories and relates them to the writer's experience. The theories are Freire, Mezirow,...

Despite her poor reception by those that disagree with her philosophically, Costello makes many valid points about animal rights. ...

moral fact by levying skepticism towards the basis of those moral truths and facts (Sinnott-Armstrong, 2011). For instance, one mi...

view is that the appetite for wisdom is the most noble of the possible forces that can drive humanity, and as such, the one which ...

draw on the human collective conscious, or the knowledge that exists in the universe, they had a glimpse of it once, and that expl...

"what is justice?" and after a definition is provided, Socrates gets the interlocutor to make a statement that would obviously con...

culpable. It is true that many other nations, such as France, opposed the war effort in Iraq. Did the U.S. overstep its bounds? Wh...

that is permanent and immutable. It is this world that is more real; the world of change is merely an imperfect image of this worl...

society exist without democracy? Many theorists today would think not, and while many enlightened individuals could argue that mer...

the individual and a definition of justice. There are three classes for the state to function properly: artisans, who are skilled ...