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Comparing Aristotle and Plato

the immortal soul so that man can survive (PG). The mortal and the immortal soul were each housed in different areas in the body (...

The Golden Mean of Aristotle

In five pages the way in which Aristotle perceived the golden mean as described in Politics is discussed and also compared with Th...

Forms According to Aristotle and Plato

In five pages this essay distinguishes between how forms were conceptualized by Plato and his student Aristotle with Aristotle bei...

Republic of Plato and 'the Just City'

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

Forms and Recollection in Phaedo by Plato

leg only" (Plato). If this were true, if there were only one process in regards to life-death, then everything would ultimately co...

'Just Society' Quest

In six pages this paper examines the just society quest as philosophically considered by John Stuart Mill in 'On Liberty,' Jean Ja...

Ascetic and Hedonistic Ideals in Protagoras by Plato

In five pages this report argues that both Protagoras and Socrates' ideals are ascetic and hedonistic as presented in Plato's dial...

Contemporary American Culture and Plato and Aristotle's Concepts of Human Nature

of human thinking and an awareness of what constitutes the basics of human nature. Their lessons and attitudes are still relevant ...

Arts and the Views of Plato

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

Truth and Documentary Theater

call to action. Bruskin explains that "The essence of the period is that we were galvanized to do something." (32). While docume...

Thematic Similarities in the Writings of Plato, Cicero, and Sophocles

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

Symbolism and Theme of Plato's Allegory of the Cave

attempt to free themselves. What he has realized is that what they had seen all along on the wall of the cave were mere representa...

Value of Piety

Socrates ideas. He states that he will be Euthyphros student in these matters. Of course, it would seem that Socrates is being a b...

Achilles and Socrates

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

Poetics vs. Apology, Comparing Plato and Aristotle

Plato's Apology and Aristotle's Poetics are both considered masterpieces of ancient Greek philosophy. This report compares the two...

Socrates on the Body and Soul

the soul. What the mind or soul once knew is raised to present awareness by a process of recollection aided by the technique of di...

Is There a Distinction Between the Soul and the Body?

a body" (Aristotle), Plato illustrates his inability to see beyond mankinds mortal connection, opting instead to focus upon a deci...

Dialogue Format of Plato

In five pages this report discusses Plato's dialogues in terms of how Socrates regarded his philosophical role and how he was pres...

The Blair Witch Project Film, the Newtonian Revolution, and Phaedo by Plato

In six pages this report examines individual understanding of the world as considered in Plato's Phaedo, in the scientific inquiry...

Aristotle and Plato

theory of "seeing is believing" and that something must be touched in order to be a reality. According to Goellnitz, one s...

X- AND Y-THEORY AND LOGISTICS

empowerment and the taking of responsibility. Though it might seem as though these two are at the opposite end of the spectrum, le...

Plato and Gender

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

Did Plato Influence St. Augustine

truly understand Gods word: "I ask Thee, my God: pardon my sins, and as Thou didst grant to Thy servant to speak those words, gran...

The Apology, Antigone and the Concept of Virtue

in order to insure passage to the underworld. The Underworld in this mythology was not a particularly happy place; it was a gloomy...

Female Characters and Ancient Texts

is clear that each of them has some wish in his mind that he cant articulate; instead, like an oracle, he half-grasps what he want...

Justice According to Thucydides and Plato

has Socrates presented with various definitions of justice. Socrates is always opposed to any rule or definition that can be appli...

Analyzing The Republic of Plato

many partners and purveyors will be required to furnish them. One person will turn to another to supply a particular want, and fo...

Plato's "Crito" and "Apology"/Augustine's Confessions

This essay focuses on Plato's use of dialogue in his "Apology" and "Crito," and Augustine's use of the monologue in his "Confessio...

Plato's Gorgias and Phaedrus

This essay pertains to Plato's perception of rhetoric and the role of eros, as indicated by his texts Gorgias and Phaedrus. Five p...

Good and Evil as Conceptualized by Plato in Meno

In six pages good and evil are examined along with Plato's assertion that evil is not knowingly committed by man. There are no ot...