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precisely, is the mind, the elusive entity where intelligence, decision making, perception, awareness and sense of self reside? Wh...
In six pages this paper discusses virtue and whether or not it is possible to teach in a consideration of the dialogue between Men...
Despite her poor reception by those that disagree with her philosophically, Costello makes many valid points about animal rights. ...
tragedy" (Cai, 1999, p. 317). For Confucius, the focus was much narrower: when he considered poetry, he was thinking of the Book o...
he make it eternal anyway? Many people think of the universe as something that was eternal in the first place, irrespective of wha...
not go to reincarnation necessarily, but rather to the idea that death does not end life. On the other hand, New Ageism, Buddhism,...
that was determined by human will, in that people choose whether or not to keep their promises (Hobbes, 1982). Those that keep th...
interprets the ideal of freedom and to what extent they live in their own psychological prisons. Social freedom means that one wil...
will is responsible for the subsequent chain of events. Therein is the problem of free will. If it in fact exists, how...
for, but for which there were certainly problems. People too easily give up on it. In his work entitled The History of the Pelopon...
original thirteen colonies on which the new United States of America was founded removed their approval of being governed by the B...
around, arousing them and persuading them. He illustrates how people are often irritated by him because they feel they have been r...
Introduction The issues surrounding abortion are complex to say the least. People are polarized on the issue...
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 frequently alluded was the basis for his debates with Gorgias, contending that the degree of abstraction pursued by thoug...
his writings (Levinson x). Socrates would continue to dominate Platos personal and professional lives for years to come, and woul...
life fulfillment and that a disabled individual should be allowed to die because their quality of life will not allow them to find...
84). However, Socrates is willing to concede that an individual can desire an evil thing if he mistakenly first evaluates it as go...
how the individual, the personality, that is a human being is likely never to experience an afterlife. In this we see that Flew do...
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...
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....
In five pages The Republic by Plato is examined in a consideration of Books I and II in a discussion of Socrates' extended dialogu...
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...
What constitutes good is considered from a philosophical perspective in five pages with the focus being on the philosophies of Pla...
to Locke. Locke was able to succinctly describe and honor the Enlightenment in his belief in the middle class and its right to fre...
to return to the cave because its familiar and comfortable? The answer to all these questions is "yes." (Allegory of the Cave, 2...
a product of how "own imperfect understanding of nature, of our ignorance of how to harmonize our activities with the worlds scrip...
come after Plato, not before. (This example is found in Book VII of The Republic, which is available online.) As Im sure youll ...
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, ...
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...