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in order to be just. Many are familiar with the tales of Sodom and Gomorrah from the bible. They understand that many cities had ...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

ghost, a phantom-true, but no real breath of life" (23.122-23). This minimal survival apparently depends on the appropriate funera...

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

unison (Rosen, 2005). Plato (1996) writes: "Is not the community of pleasure and pain the tie that binds? The sharing, to the grea...

of death, as well as the mystery of death. This establishes a foundation from which we can learn, especially considering that Nula...

In six pages this paper examines Socrates concept of love, then compares it with the contemporary interpretation before being inte...

In six pages The Book of Job from the Old Testament, Antigone by Sophocles, Crito and Apology by Plato, and The Clouds by Aristoph...

on their own account." The disciple shows Strepsiades a globe used for astronomy and a map used for geometry. Strepsiades see...

interlocutor" which is consistent with the importance he places on self-knowledge as a way to attain good and happiness. Callicles...

could only have known him in his last years (Nails, 2005). One finds in any of theses authors reports inconsistencies and contradi...

An 18 page paper which summarizes 3 separate textbooks which analyze fully restorative programs as they relate to the field of ju...

This 5 page paper examines the way in which one can use the Socratic method to find the truth. The writer also discusses the conce...

This is a 5 page book review in which the author relates her own upbringing which is in sharp contrast to most members of American...

In three pages this paper considers how Plato's text reveals virtue to be not a single entity but rather deeply connected to other...

the end of the Gita, Arjuna says "The delusion is gone...by your grace I have recovered my wits. Here I stand with no more doubts....

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...

still perhaps not arriving at solid answers when his friend tells him he has to leave. Socrates tells him, "Alas! my companion, an...

student sees in relationship to what the image can present: "but of the ideas which they resemble; not of the figures which they d...

This paper focuses on prison overcrowding as an ethical issue that affects the American criminal justice system Three pages in len...

the supreme principle, the fundamental principle on which any well-ordered society could live (Bhandari, nd). Plato was certainl...

no matter how insignificant or trite they may seem. However, it would seem that he believed that there were at least two types of ...

advent of history. When women were allowed to work in the factories during World War II, it was found that the women were actually...

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

the notion of justice. This was essentially defined as doing the right thing. We note that one of the characters in the Republic i...

things that are not concrete, but ideas. This type of thinking, the student could state, however, really puts a hold on empirical ...