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Brian Vickers portrays Plato as an intellectual Odysseus, stealthily stealing the rhetorical arsenal of the sophists and using it ...

can be found in many church doctrines today (Fisher, 2006). Augustine was a seeker of truth throughout his life (Smitha, 1998). H...

marriage of his mother to his uncle. Hamlet remarks that she overcome her grief and remarried within a month of his fathers death-...

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...

Wisdom, and the Word of God. Therefore, intellectual knowledge is not the result of the gathering of data by the intellect, but a ...

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

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

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

(2002) argument is based on his experiences as first a federal prosecutor, then a trial judge, and finally a California Superior C...

if "what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting like a good or bad man" ("Apology" 28b)(Plato 32-33). In regards to how ...

Accordingly, each parent represents a much-needed entity in the growth of a child: The mother provides stability and sanctity, whi...

finer points of interpretation. However, the general consensus, down through the ages, is that Sophocles main theme had to do with...

of innate knowledge, he was adamant that nothing could be learned except through experience and sensory input: "How comes [the mi...

his writings (Levinson x). Socrates would continue to dominate Platos personal and professional lives for years to come, and woul...

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

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

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

also supported what was known as the Theory of Ideas, which mainly stated that archetypal ideas (which rest in the universal)(Plan...

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...

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

be studied scientifically in order to derive the most rational, economic and efficient means of administering policy. The form is...

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

led to alter his position. The old philosophers gave much attention to the issue of knowledge and epistemology. Aristotle ...

human nature is bound by the weakness of mans character? In short, Platos (1979) freed prisoner is himself, the cave reflects the...

In 5 pages this paper discusses how Hamlet's characterization was influenced by the philosophies of Saint Augustine of Hippo, Plat...

In six pages issues involving cultural prejudice in the classroom and how the educator should handle such an occurrence is conside...

In nine pages this paper examines the philosophies of Mary Wollstonecraft, Samuel Gompers, Frederick Douglass, Plato, and Aristotl...

upon expressing an objective truth. For example, approving of an action and stating that the action is right can be construed as ...

In six pages these societies are contrasted and compares as they relate to philosophies expressed in the Bible and the writings of...

In five pages this paper discusses the philosophies of God as espoused by Socrates and Aristotle in a comparison and contrast of A...