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"Metamorphoses" and Socrates "Apology". While "Apology" is Platos account of Socrates trial and ultimate death it is also...

words, "how does one KNOW that this is the truth". Most of Socrates teaching took place on the steps of a Lyceum, much like an a...

profit than seeking knowledge. The schools headmaster was Socrates, and Strepsiades hopes that Phidippides will be able to apply ...

new ideas. The body supplies the means by which knowledge can be attained, for it is necessary, according to Plato, for things an...

he sought to bring truth to others. Does Socrates Do Evil? From Kierkegaards position it is perhaps truth that all people do e...

film Braveheart is noted for its bloody battle sequences (Brackman, 2004). While The Passion is based on the Gospel of John, Brac...

hype people would not have continued lining up to see the movie. This is not a fun film, it graphically and brutally shows the las...

depiction was not anti-Semitic: "Most of good people in this movie are Jewish, including not only Jesus and Mary, but Mary Magdale...

is less important than the conversation which takes place, and since the two individuals are from periods in Greek history several...

the gods and sensible men, that you must worship it" (Plato, 51a). Therefore, Socrates clearly and evidently reveres the s...

this chapter, the highest normative principle involves the idea that "actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happ...

Introduction The issues surrounding abortion are complex to say the least. People are polarized on the issue...

manifestation that Gorgias was forever attempting to read between the lines of what Socrates had to say, perpetually wondering if ...

childhood, during his early life, Socrates was a sculptor, following in the footsteps of his father, Sophroniscus (Wikpedia, 2003)...

are afraid because ignorant, and perceive the pain and not the benefits; nor do they apprehend that a sick soul is worse than a si...

a person even know if those opinions are really yours or the opinions of others which you have adopted as your own without testing...

ground, whether that is through dialectical discourse or reason (1994). Barber claims that neither approach leaves any room for po...

into detail about the beginnings of Christs teachings when people were beginning to see him as the son of God as it relates to all...

to be achieved. This scenario, by its very nature, assured the manifestation of orderliness and moderation rather than the less a...

guidance that gives meaning for man. Rather, as he explains, mans actions and intellectual activity seem to provide meaning. This ...

wiser (21a). This news confused Socrates greatly as he realized that he was not particularly wise. He, therefore, set out to find ...

why so many people had to suffer. No matter the cause, the gods were not looked on with the reverence they had once enjoyed, and t...

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

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

Aristotles concrete, scientific theories are more relevant than Platos deductive and abstract ideology. Aristotle believed...

cast them as slaves of the elite. This action of stripping an individuals inherent rights as a human being can be nothing other t...

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...

perception is that which we, as humans, have been trained to discern as a species, inasmuch as the certain quality of perception r...

has many flaws. There is question as to whether or not the method really gets to the truth at all. In fact, one has to wonder whet...

pundits or the mainstream media happen to be handing out at the moment. This is a process that rekindles a "child-like--but by no ...