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Meno by Plato and the Learning Paradox

precisely, is the mind, the elusive entity where intelligence, decision making, perception, awareness and sense of self reside? Wh...

Virtue and Meno by Plato

In six pages this paper discusses virtue and whether or not it is possible to teach in a consideration of the dialogue between Men...

Elizabeth Costello's Views on Animal Rights

Despite her poor reception by those that disagree with her philosophically, Costello makes many valid points about animal rights. ...

The Role of Confucian Reflection in Early Poetry

tragedy" (Cai, 1999, p. 317). For Confucius, the focus was much narrower: when he considered poetry, he was thinking of the Book o...

Plato and Eternity

he make it eternal anyway? Many people think of the universe as something that was eternal in the first place, irrespective of wha...

The Myth of Er and Scipio's Dream as They Relate to American Society

not go to reincarnation necessarily, but rather to the idea that death does not end life. On the other hand, New Ageism, Buddhism,...

Justice as it Respects Hobbes and Plato

that was determined by human will, in that people choose whether or not to keep their promises (Hobbes, 1982). Those that keep th...

Plato and John Stuart Mill on Social Freedom

interprets the ideal of freedom and to what extent they live in their own psychological prisons. Social freedom means that one wil...

The Problem of Free Will and How It is Treated in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House

will is responsible for the subsequent chain of events. Therein is the problem of free will. If it in fact exists, how...

Ancient Philosophers on Democracy

for, but for which there were certainly problems. People too easily give up on it. In his work entitled The History of the Pelopon...

Government's General Principles

original thirteen colonies on which the new United States of America was founded removed their approval of being governed by the B...

Analyzing Crito, Euthyphro, and Apology by Plato

around, arousing them and persuading them. He illustrates how people are often irritated by him because they feel they have been r...

Abortion and Morality

Introduction The issues surrounding abortion are complex to say the least. People are polarized on the issue...

Unity, Being, and Becoming According to the Philosophers

can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees it as symbolic of humans o...

Socrates' Thoughts and Influence

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

Life and Writings of Plato

his writings (Levinson x). Socrates would continue to dominate Platos personal and professional lives for years to come, and woul...

Plato and Singer

life fulfillment and that a disabled individual should be allowed to die because their quality of life will not allow them to find...

Cinematic Portrayal of Greek Virtue and Philosophers

84). However, Socrates is willing to concede that an individual can desire an evil thing if he mistakenly first evaluates it as go...

Noted Thinkers on the Afterlife

how the individual, the personality, that is a human being is likely never to experience an afterlife. In this we see that Flew do...

Republic by Plato and Women's Role

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...

Love According to Socrates in Symposium by Plato

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....

The Republic by Plato, Morality and Logic

In five pages The Republic by Plato is examined in a consideration of Books I and II in a discussion of Socrates' extended dialogu...

Plato and C.S. Lewis Comparisons

In six pages a work of Plato is compared with the Christian writer C.S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters. Two sources are cited in t...

Philosophy and the Concept of 'Good'

What constitutes good is considered from a philosophical perspective in five pages with the focus being on the philosophies of Pla...

Comparative Philosophical Views of John Locke and Plato

to Locke. Locke was able to succinctly describe and honor the Enlightenment in his belief in the middle class and its right to fre...

Spiritual Journey and Spiritual Growth

to return to the cave because its familiar and comfortable? The answer to all these questions is "yes." (Allegory of the Cave, 2...

Healthy and Sick City Distinctions Made by Plato

a product of how "own imperfect understanding of nature, of our ignorance of how to harmonize our activities with the worlds scrip...

Christianity and the Influence of Plato

come after Plato, not before. (This example is found in Book VII of The Republic, which is available online.) As Im sure youll ...

Socratic Philosophy and Plato

is good (Frost 84). For Socrates, "a life which is always inquiring and trying to discover what is good is the best kind of life, ...

Democracy's Inferiority According to Plato

motives of ambition -- it has no name in common use that I know of; let us call it timarchy or timocracy -- and then go on to ol...