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In six pages this paper analyzes The Republic by Plato in a consideration of how women's roles are portrayed. There is 1 source c...
a leader? How should a prince behave? Although the motive for Machiavelli writing this piece, and the application of this work to ...
the kings and philosophers -- should not have the right to bear children or even own their own property. This, he maintained, wou...
she taught him that the journey of the soul is to go from the immediate experience of the everyday world and ascend into a realm t...
trial for treason and his thoughts prior to his execution. These are the Apology, the Crito and the Phaedo, which is an account of...
his argument to the priestess who taught him mysteries in his youth, Diotima of Mantinea. Attributing his words to Diotima, Socrat...
wine and pleasure, and rejecting the cold and structured nature of Apollonian society. For them, to be human is to follow ones bas...
they know was agreed upon in full assembly; and should it be decided that this is not so, the poor have discovered a hundred excus...
the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...
wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves social needs. A number of philosophers have contributed to the debate which...
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...
believe. Deweys central thesis is rather controversial, but is seemingly valid, and has withstood the test of time. Indeed, Deweys...
charges of impiety and corruption of youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens ("Socrates," 2003). While this ph...
as people do want to know things and understand (1995). Both theorists do view education as important and place a particular empha...
also wrote that one could live justly only if they lived in a just society (Beck, n.d.). Plato had a number of caveats about a jus...
background, the points which Gray (2001) makes are surprising to say the least. Gray (2001) sees the war we as a society are wagi...
had to be obtained by directing the students mind toward the discovery of what is real and important, then allowing them to deduce...
of innate knowledge, he was adamant that nothing could be learned except through experience and sensory input: "How comes [the mi...
importance and children were to be guarded from superfluous information to come from for example poetry and literature. Rather, th...
(Sophocles). In this she is arguing how she has not followed the laws of "men" or even of the gods in this case, but rather per...
who will eventually hold office and decide what to pursue in respect to issues like abortion, stem cell research and capital punis...
God wills at any particular moment." To this proposition, Nielsen poses three questions: 1. Is being willed by God the, or even a,...
and balances helps to equalize what man truly knows and that which he thinks he knows - the very foundation for identifying weakne...
is not clear how the lower classes are expected to live (1993). It is also noted that while Plato makes a case for communism for ...
In ten pages this tutorial paper imagines a lively dialogue between political philosophers including St. Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle...
be attacked as while many analysts will agree that Plato clearly states this in The Republic, his other works suggest other ideas....
human being for a short span of time. The cave allegory is quite well known and has been used by many to interpret Platos philosop...
Ulman, 2005, PG). In order to construct a successful argument for a particular position, therefore, one has to first amass th...
This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...
view is that the appetite for wisdom is the most noble of the possible forces that can drive humanity, and as such, the one which ...