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seen, but somewhat obscured by the appearance of shadows. The dialogue commences further with Socrates discussion of the divisi...

or so it might seem. But when they return; of course, they are blinded. They may know all and they may have seen all-- but perhaps...

In five pages this research paper analyzes the illusion of the shadows viewed by the prisoners in the cave allegory featured in th...

In twenty pages this paper discusses the failed efforts of Plato to sufficiently train Dionysus the Younger to become a philosophe...

In six pages this paper considers the self interest and justice arguments of Thrasymachus and Socrates in The Republic. One sourc...

In five pages this paper examines The Republic by Plato in a consideration of Glaucon and Socrates' dialogue and how the Gyges myt...

much like ourselves. As this suggests, Socrates means to make it clear that this allegory has relevance to the realities of everyd...

advent of history. When women were allowed to work in the factories during World War II, it was found that the women were actually...

Analysis of William Shakespeare's Hamlet (Act V, Scene ii), As You Like It (Act II, Scene vii), Richard III (Act I, Scene ii), The...

This paper discusses different parts of Plato's Republic. There is a discussion of natural law legal theory and legal positivist t...

unison (Rosen, 2005). Plato (1996) writes: "Is not the community of pleasure and pain the tie that binds? The sharing, to the grea...

for which they are talented. Here, it is thought that the rulers who are willing to rule, who go into the cave, who are vocal, are...

would Hobbes be accepted in todays world? Would he fit in at all? These and other questions loom large. Still, each in their own w...

In six pages this paper examines the just society quest as philosophically considered by John Stuart Mill in 'On Liberty,' Jean Ja...

yet does not lose faith in the just and true" (Plato Jowett Translation Characters). In this we see that Plato appears to be indic...

he had dragged him out into the light of the sun" he would be distressed. For Socrates, the world above ground represents the othe...

then, accompanied by proof, it can therefore be called knowledge. He seems to move in circles a bit with this assertion, in that ...

of quickness and penetration, piercing easily below the clumsy platitudes of Thrasymachus to the real difficulty; he turns out to ...

the soul. What the mind or soul once knew is raised to present awareness by a process of recollection aided by the technique of di...

the lyrics in modern songs, and in essence, the poets of today are Eminem and Jay Zee and Beyonce. Lyrics to emanate from these ar...

soul, as imaged by Plato, is made up of the qualities of reason, spirit and desire or appetite (Honderich, et al, 1995). The "reas...

in order to be just. Many are familiar with the tales of Sodom and Gomorrah from the bible. They understand that many cities had ...

like Hades and the underworld; Tiresias the blind seer; and other references to death and dying (Plato). They decide they have to...

is no realistic political system, for it takes considerably more than one mans word to impart a true sense of unity. "Thus, for y...

how ones intellect cannot be considered a gender. In other words, intelligence is intelligence regardless of where it is housed. ...

to be transcendent elements sent to teach important lessons turns out to be nothing more than images cast from puppets whose shado...

is a case for communism at least for the lower classes. The supporting premises for that conclusion have already been noted and ge...

In a type of author/character debate, Plato explores the premises of his theory by having Socrates debate them. Plato theorized ...

In seven pages the cave allegory featured in Plato's Republic is applied to contemporary U.S. political leadership. Four sources ...

role of rhetoric within the political arena. Therefore, "Rhetoric is the expressed genre of the second grammatical person" (545)....