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life fulfillment and that a disabled individual should be allowed to die because their quality of life will not allow them to find...

Yet is it just to have such a rule in place? Furthermore is a just for a professional football team to be fined, simply because th...

is only preserved as a term of reproach" (Plato). He illustrates how the figures of men and women and the third figure were round ...

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

interprets the ideal of freedom and to what extent they live in their own psychological prisons. Social freedom means that one wil...

that was determined by human will, in that people choose whether or not to keep their promises (Hobbes, 1982). Those that keep th...

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...

as well as the people. When one views the former President of the United States, Bill Clinton, for example, one hardly thinks ab...

Introduction The issues surrounding abortion are complex to say the least. People are polarized on the issue...

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...

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

"what is justice?" and after a definition is provided, Socrates gets the interlocutor to make a statement that would obviously con...

of science there are two branches which are epistemology and metaphysics (Honderich, 1995). Science makes up an important part of ...

the street ... must and will reflect our personal moral standards" (Reavley, 2001). Those moral standards, Reavley implies, must ...

only thing that is known is what is presently occurring. In other words, if something is out of ones eyesight and experience, it i...

come after Plato, not before. (This example is found in Book VII of The Republic, which is available online.) As Im sure youll ...

draw on the human collective conscious, or the knowledge that exists in the universe, they had a glimpse of it once, and that expl...

culpable. It is true that many other nations, such as France, opposed the war effort in Iraq. Did the U.S. overstep its bounds? Wh...

that is permanent and immutable. It is this world that is more real; the world of change is merely an imperfect image of this worl...

society exist without democracy? Many theorists today would think not, and while many enlightened individuals could argue that mer...

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...

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

In three pages gender concepts are discussed in this consideration of how Plato regarded equality for women. Two sources are cite...

is not clear how the lower classes are expected to live (1993). It is also noted that while Plato makes a case for communism for ...

importance and children were to be guarded from superfluous information to come from for example poetry and literature. Rather, th...

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

(Sophocles). In this she is arguing how she has not followed the laws of "men" or even of the gods in this case, but rather per...

who will eventually hold office and decide what to pursue in respect to issues like abortion, stem cell research and capital punis...