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

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

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...

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

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...

aligned with a degree of sensibility. There must be a notion that not only is retributive justice something that makes the society...

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

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...

beating two black individuals. These black youth had entered into the neighborhood of the white boys and this was the motive of th...

the Indiana County Police Academy in 1991. This was a comprehensive and intense program that included numerous areas of study [Tut...

may be more equal than others, having the funds to hire the most experiences and persuasive lawyers that will not only be able to ...

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

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

This 12-page paper deals with the effect of plea bargaining on the criminal justice system. It argues that the relatively new pra...

the streets? Will Valentine disgrace himself in the commodities market? Since this is a comedy, we know the answer to both questio...

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...

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

is societally acceptable to that which is societally reprehensible. There is, of course, no one place to lodge the blame for juve...

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

she proved to me as I proved to him that, by my own showing, Love was neither fair nor good. " Here, the idea that love is powerfu...

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...

most part. He was clearly setting himself up as some sort of martyr or individual who would ultimately bring about change to the s...

the lyrics in modern songs, and in essence, the poets of today are Eminem and Jay Zee and Beyonce. Lyrics to emanate from these ar...

vary somewhat from state to state, juvenile justice typically has a similar protocol. At the time a juvenile is arrested, a decis...

and foremost, its reliability for identification purposes (Technology and Human Values, 1997). In addition, it is widely used and...

offender population. Rehabilitation refers to "changing either the offenders objective circumstances or his value system in ways t...

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

for which they are talented. Here, it is thought that the rulers who are willing to rule, who go into the cave, who are vocal, are...