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This essay focuses on Plato's use of dialogue in his "Apology" and "Crito," and Augustine's use of the monologue in his "Confessio...

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

pleas, Socrates will not hear of any escape plans. He points out that, even though the sentence was unjust, it was perfectly legal...

concepts that are far beyond his level of comprehension, only to ultimately be able to process the information. To reach true m...

he had dragged him out into the light of the sun" he would be distressed. For Socrates, the world above ground represents the othe...

much like ourselves. As this suggests, Socrates means to make it clear that this allegory has relevance to the realities of everyd...

living" (Plato Crito 18-19). II. ABORTION To reach true happiness, Plato believed people must strive for a contentment tha...

senate dinner, or basically a drinking party after the meal. Though it is certain that Plato took literary license with the dialog...

yet does not lose faith in the just and true" (Plato Jowett Translation Characters). In this we see that Plato appears to be indic...

would be clearly dependent upon the eye of the beholder. Therefore, the conclusions were not judgments, per se, but were response...

know what they, themselves, look like. One day, one of the people breaks free from the chains and makes it back to the outside o...

change and that personality stays the same. In order to comprehend why this is not the case, and understand the thesis which also ...

then, accompanied by proof, it can therefore be called knowledge. He seems to move in circles a bit with this assertion, in that ...

Socrates ideas. He states that he will be Euthyphros student in these matters. Of course, it would seem that Socrates is being a b...

of quickness and penetration, piercing easily below the clumsy platitudes of Thrasymachus to the real difficulty; he turns out to ...

attempt to free themselves. What he has realized is that what they had seen all along on the wall of the cave were mere representa...

Plato's Apology and Aristotle's Poetics are both considered masterpieces of ancient Greek philosophy. This report compares the two...

call to action. Bruskin explains that "The essence of the period is that we were galvanized to do something." (32). While docume...

the soul. What the mind or soul once knew is raised to present awareness by a process of recollection aided by the technique of di...

a body" (Aristotle), Plato illustrates his inability to see beyond mankinds mortal connection, opting instead to focus upon a deci...

has Socrates presented with various definitions of justice. Socrates is always opposed to any rule or definition that can be appli...

In five pages this report argues that both Protagoras and Socrates' ideals are ascetic and hedonistic as presented in Plato's dial...

In five pages this report discusses Plato's dialogues in terms of how Socrates regarded his philosophical role and how he was pres...

In six pages this report examines individual understanding of the world as considered in Plato's Phaedo, in the scientific inquiry...

In twelve pages Plato's dialogues The Republic, Phaedrus, and Gorgias are examined in an analysis of how the philosopher conceptua...

many partners and purveyors will be required to furnish them. One person will turn to another to supply a particular want, and fo...

of human thinking and an awareness of what constitutes the basics of human nature. Their lessons and attitudes are still relevant ...

In five pages this report examines the qualities of being human in terms of being and becoming in the individual and incorporates ...

In six pages this paper examines the just society quest as philosophically considered by John Stuart Mill in 'On Liberty,' Jean Ja...

close relationships over great distances and for a long period of time, indefinitely, even with separations and loss of contact" (...