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has Socrates presented with various definitions of justice. Socrates is always opposed to any rule or definition that can be appli...
aid and had been made a part of the defensive alliance formed by the Athenians. Since Corinth was allied with Sparta, the foundati...
At the beginning of this extended speech, the representative from Corcyra prefaces his narrative of events with an appeal that is ...
In ten pages this paper refers to the writings of Thucydides, Aristotle, and Plato in a consideration of past and present politica...
what was passing in the world around them, to the realm of re-presentative intellect. An external phenomenon is thus translated i...
of veracity. This is because each segment of humanity is its own little universe and what is held to be truth in one section of th...
In five pages this paper examines the organization of history according to the different perspectives of Edward Gibbon, Thucydides...
In nine pages this paper examines how justice was represented by Plato in such works as The Laws, The Gorgias, and The Republic. ...
In seven pages justice as conceptualized by philosophers John Rawls and Plato is contrasted and compared. Six sources are cited i...
In six pages this paper considers Plato's text in its representation of the evil and unhappiness of the 'unjust' according to Socr...
In five pages this paper examines youth and adult education according to Plato's philosophy. Three sources are listed in the bibl...
In seven pages this paper discusses the many components and perspectives on justice utilizing the categorical imperative of Immanu...
In twelve pages Plato's dialogues The Republic, Phaedrus, and Gorgias are examined in an analysis of how the philosopher conceptua...
with sickness, or the pilot who helps friends against "the perils of the sea" (Plato Book I). He then inquires into "what sort of ...
Essentially, the allegory likens those who remain unaware of forms to prisoners chained in a cave, and they cannot turn their head...
of Nature. He has also noted that while the 20th century has involved a great deal of specialization, the 21st century will be a ...
still perhaps not arriving at solid answers when his friend tells him he has to leave. Socrates tells him, "Alas! my companion, an...
for, but for which there were certainly problems. People too easily give up on it. In his work entitled The History of the Pelopon...
So for Plato, this idea extended into both personal and political ramifications. He reasoned that when an individual was doing th...
the objectivity he professed" (Lattimore xiii). As this postmodern revisionist view of Thucydides suggests, his historical accurac...
fundamental importance in the Republic of the metaphor of descent and its connection to the two great themes of birth and death, a...
could well be said that his acceptance of his brothers actions, despite his berating his brother, may have been the most important...
basically a war between Athens and Sparta (Thucydides, 1881). This came about as a result of the growth of the Athenian Empire, a...
a humans body. It sought to find pleasure and to find sustenance. "These appetites should not be allowed, to enslave the other ele...
the supreme principle, the fundamental principle on which any well-ordered society could live (Bhandari, nd). Plato was certainl...
do good, not evil to their friends (Plato, 2002). As this indicates, Polemarchus works hard to defend his fathers "rule of thumb...
role in this respect. Plato held that the key agent in any sort of behavior but especially ethical or moral behavior (or lack of t...
In fifteen pages this paper considers the connection between wisdom, holiness, justice, courage, temperance and virtue as revealed...
In three pages this paper considers how Plato's text reveals virtue to be not a single entity but rather deeply connected to other...
In 5 pages the roots of justice are exposed in these respecitve works in which an imaginary dialogue between Moses, Mohammed, and ...