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The ancient Greek arche concept is compared with Plato's soul concept in an argument that contends Plato's conflict resolution of ...

In ten pages this paper discusses how knowledge is considered via three types of philosophical arguments in The Republic by Plato....

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

that love is beautiful and love is a god by showing them the true nature of love and the use love can be to humankind....

but never the subjects. The result is that injustice lords it over those who are truly simple and truly just. Because the unjust...

In three pages this paper considers whether or not learning is new information or simply recollection of past experience according...

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

form of flattery. Socrates voices such strong opposition to the type of oration he attributes to men like Gorgias because knowl...

In five pages this paper examines how Plato described Socrates' trial and death in his dialogues Phaedo, Crito, Apology, and Euthy...

In eight pages this paper examines Socrates' life and philosophy as represented in the Five Dialogues of Plato. Four sources are ...

In six pages this paper examines the Greek concept of eros or love as it is portrayed in these works by Plato and Hippolytus with ...

citizen was guaranteed the right to be heard in an Athenian court. Since the government structure was founded on the principle th...

In seven pages this paper discuses Socrates' philosophy in an overview that includes his soul concept, what constitutes 'true' kno...

something in Platos morality which does not really belong to Plato but is only to be met with in his philosophy, one might say in ...

charges of impiety and corruption of youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens ("Socrates," 2003). While this ph...

Socrates frequently alluded was the basis for his debates with Gorgias, contending that the degree of abstraction pursued by thoug...

is no realistic political system, for it takes considerably more than one mans word to impart a true sense of unity. "Thus, for y...

reaching true conclusions and therefore may use their knowledge of language and logic to confuse the average person on the issues ...

between the citizens. Taken together, the guardians are people who are skilled in governing certain areas. However, these two type...

how ones intellect cannot be considered a gender. In other words, intelligence is intelligence regardless of where it is housed. ...

to be transcendent elements sent to teach important lessons turns out to be nothing more than images cast from puppets whose shado...

"clearness and accuracy" (336d). He elaborates in section 338c that while there are different forms of governments, each one "defi...

is a case for communism at least for the lower classes. The supporting premises for that conclusion have already been noted and ge...

concepts that are far beyond his level of comprehension, only to ultimately be able to process the information. To reach true m...

he had dragged him out into the light of the sun" he would be distressed. For Socrates, the world above ground represents the othe...

yet does not lose faith in the just and true" (Plato Jowett Translation Characters). In this we see that Plato appears to be indic...

of quickness and penetration, piercing easily below the clumsy platitudes of Thrasymachus to the real difficulty; he turns out to ...

then, accompanied by proof, it can therefore be called knowledge. He seems to move in circles a bit with this assertion, in that ...

In five pages analogy is defined and then related to these two philosophers as they are used in Rousseau's The Social Contract and...

would Hobbes be accepted in todays world? Would he fit in at all? These and other questions loom large. Still, each in their own w...