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The Cave and The Divided Line

student sees in relationship to what the image can present: "but of the ideas which they resemble; not of the figures which they d...

Defense Management Ethics and Classic Philosophy

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

If Ralph Had Provided Better Government Advice, Would Events Have Been Different in Lord of the Flies by William Golding?

This paper examines if Niccolo Machiavelli or Plato would have provided Ralph with better advice on governing the island in this a...

American and Greek Democracies - A Comparison

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at American and Greek democracies. The Republic of Plato is also presented in summary-f...

Adult Learning Theories

This essay reports on three adult learning theories and relates them to the writer's experience. The theories are Freire, Mezirow,...

Bacon and Plato - An Analysis

In a paper of thirteen pages, the writer looks at classical texts by Francis Bacon and Plato. The allegory of the cave and the fou...

Human Nature - The Philosophical Perspective

view is that the appetite for wisdom is the most noble of the possible forces that can drive humanity, and as such, the one which ...

Nihilism: An Overview of Perspectives

moral fact by levying skepticism towards the basis of those moral truths and facts (Sinnott-Armstrong, 2011). For instance, one mi...

Poverty and the Views of Plato

Indeed, one might readily surmise that Plato believed man was a product of how "own imperfect understanding of nature, of our igno...

Plato, Homer, and Gods

(Garrett(1)). In addition these gods possess many human traits such as jealousy and envy. As Garrett(1) states, "These gods, mo...

Comparative Analysis of Virtue and Vice

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...

Knowledge as Conceptualized by Philosophers

it comes to knowledge leads one to believe that people are much more likely to act out in such a manner that is motivated only by ...

Philosophy Questions and Religion

for example, would exist even if there were no human beings there to see it, but not that colour was an independent spiritual form...

Good Political Leadership and the Differing Views of Aristotle and Plato

as the original Greek legal process aspired to achieve such status, it can readily be said that its integrity has been severely co...

Form and Justice Theories of Plato

the notion of justice. This was essentially defined as doing the right thing. We note that one of the characters in the Republic i...

Perspectives on the Soul, Socrates and Aristotle

for Plato and are directly related to that capacity of understanding. Physical things of the world must, of necessity, have bodily...

Changing Times and Unchanging Philosophical Themes

youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...

Literature and Philosophical Themes

education is still substantially elevated in contemporary culture. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees virtue as choice and so mora...

Justice Argument of Socrates

classes in the State severally did their own business; and also thought to be temperate and valiant and wise by reason of certain ...

'Ovid's Banquet of Sence' by George Chapman

his argument to the priestess who taught him mysteries in his youth, Diotima of Mantinea. Attributing his words to Diotima, Socrat...

Worldly Circumstance and Moral Worth

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

Socrates to John Dewey on Education

words, "how does one KNOW that this is the truth". Most of Socrates teaching took place on the steps of a Lyceum, much like an a...

Political Theory and Power

societys goods (Platos Political Theory, 2002). They were satisfied with their lives and held back from being passionate natured ...

Justice Discovered by Socrates in Books Two and Four of The Republic by Plato

offer a profusion of pleasures... injustice pays better than justice" (364b). Next, Socrates appeared to shift gears and direct t...

Greek Society and Cultural Values

they know was agreed upon in full assembly; and should it be decided that this is not so, the poor have discovered a hundred excus...

Plato and Euripides on Human Nature

wine and pleasure, and rejecting the cold and structured nature of Apollonian society. For them, to be human is to follow ones bas...

Socrates' Influence

charges of impiety and corruption of youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens ("Socrates," 2003). While this ph...

Drug Law Philosoophy

background, the points which Gray (2001) makes are surprising to say the least. Gray (2001) sees the war we as a society are wagi...

Philosophical Views on Individual Good v. Community Good

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