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people of Kiltaran, there is not likely end to the war that will affect them deeply one way or the other. Furthermore, it was not ...

because of her pride seldom uttered a complaint. Like most Filipino girls, she married and became a housewife. Her husband (my L...

voracious sexual appetites by raping young village girls and claiming other mens wives as his own conquests on their wedding night...

This paper pertains to "We So Seldom Look on Love," a short story by Barbara Gowdy and It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken, a g...

This research paper presents a biography of the life of Colin Powell, focusing on his early life, accomplishments and perceived fa...

to Augustine, this transformative power for human beings is so profound that, once it occurs, the Christian can "love and do whate...

First, Socrates, who is obviously the focus of the painting, is sitting up, still teaching as shown by his raised left hand. Hes m...

In five pages the perceptions of classical philosophers Machiavelli, Plato, and Aristotle are applied to defense management's ethi...

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

academy the first university of its type, he was able to influence minds of the next generation and proliferate his ideas and meth...

major argument in favor of poetry; that it was an educational tool that could be used in the instruction of moral values. Sidne...

subject of forms. While Plato held a dual realms theory, Aristotle saw form and matter as existing in the same realm. In discussi...

also believed in one realm. Spinoza writes: "By God, I mean a Being absolutely infinite -- that is, a substance consisting in inf...

This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...

human being for a short span of time. The cave allegory is quite well known and has been used by many to interpret Platos philosop...

Ulman, 2005, PG). In order to construct a successful argument for a particular position, therefore, one has to first amass th...

In ten pages this tutorial paper imagines a lively dialogue between political philosophers including St. Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle...

Christ. The polytheistic society of ancient Greece was already moving toward belief in a single god by the time of Plato and his ...

which the individual is supposed to pass, the doctors are usually good at predicting whether a dying person has a few days or a fe...

top the list. The Catholic Church is often quoted as having said, "Give me a child until he is seven and he will always be Catholi...

things that are not concrete, but ideas. This type of thinking, the student could state, however, really puts a hold on empirical ...

However, Allen also makes the point that Platos attitude was at least partially due to his respect and fear of the powers of art o...

he sought to bring truth to others. Does Socrates Do Evil? From Kierkegaards position it is perhaps truth that all people do e...

the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...

wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves social needs. A number of philosophers have contributed to the debate which...

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

and ones existence. To reach true happiness, Plato contended that people must strive for a contentment that only comes from being...

education (267). One might say that the stance is rather snobbish, but many do separate vocational and academic curriculums. They ...

a leader? How should a prince behave? Although the motive for Machiavelli writing this piece, and the application of this work to ...

Plato emphasizes the importance of maintaining self control in the face of eros, the importance of purging the passions of the fle...