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Essays 211 - 240
knew nothing and was far from wise, he sets upon a course of action to find someone wiser than himself to offer to the Oracle as r...
three characters (a stranger from Athens; Cleinias, from Crete; and Megillus, a Lacedaemonian) are discussing their various types ...
suggest that both love and hate can be taught (Plato). We can further extrapolate from that to conclude that if a nation is in har...
thought that the Theory of Forms was useless when it came to explaining the material world "because the connection between the two...
what was passing in the world around them, to the realm of re-presentative intellect. An external phenomenon is thus translated i...
people must strive for a knowledge that only comes from being true to ones own choice. According to Plato, men and women both hav...
and with that has come an interest in spirituality itself, outside of any religious context. It is this search for a truth that m...
can one know what is beautiful or what is ugly? There must be some sort of shared experience. Plato uses a cave allegory--somethi...
between the citizens. Taken together, the guardians are people who are skilled in governing certain areas. However, these two type...
reaching true conclusions and therefore may use their knowledge of language and logic to confuse the average person on the issues ...
how ones intellect cannot be considered a gender. In other words, intelligence is intelligence regardless of where it is housed. ...
leg only" (Plato). If this were true, if there were only one process in regards to life-death, then everything would ultimately co...
to be transcendent elements sent to teach important lessons turns out to be nothing more than images cast from puppets whose shado...
human being from conception to death is encapsulated in a pod. In Platos Cave the only thing that they can see is...
with sickness, or the pilot who helps friends against "the perils of the sea" (Plato Book I). He then inquires into "what sort of ...
to the outside, the cave becomes a type of conduit, or birth canal which brings him into the life of actual knowledge. What one ca...
profit than seeking knowledge. The schools headmaster was Socrates, and Strepsiades hopes that Phidippides will be able to apply ...
is a case for communism at least for the lower classes. The supporting premises for that conclusion have already been noted and ge...
In six pages this paper analyzes the contention of Socrates that an 'unexamined life is not worth living' as this view is represen...
In seven pages the cave allegory featured in Plato's Republic is applied to contemporary U.S. political leadership. Four sources ...
in order to be just. Many are familiar with the tales of Sodom and Gomorrah from the bible. They understand that many cities had ...
n.d.). Plato did talk about God, in Timaeus, Plato said that if God made the world as perfect then the soul must be perfect, also ...
humans cannot readily draw on the human collective conscious, or the knowledge that exists in the universe, they had a glimpse of ...
a weapon to the hands of a madman is obviously unjust. Taylor (2003) comments on how this refutation of Cephalus position demonstr...
for the student of psychology to develop a well-rounded and complete understanding of the discipline, it is necessary to study bot...
the physical in a dramatic and practical way. While Aristotle saw the heart as just a physical organ, he had an idea that seemed t...
like Hades and the underworld; Tiresias the blind seer; and other references to death and dying (Plato). They decide they have to...
off than those who remain in the cave. Before delving into an analysis, it pays to explore the allegory as laid out by Plato. Wh...
noble. Socrates was doing the right thing. Today, as people wrestle with unjust rules and laws, there are some who simply follow ...
would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images" (Plato, 1969. p. 409). He then likens the philosopher to a prisoner who ...