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Socrates and Plato on Wisdom

because it is supposed to produce truth in the end. The essence of this method is a process that usually begins with Socrates ask...

'Good Life' According to Socrates

interaction with the world, ourselves, and others. Our perceptual capacities are not fixed; they are not static or one-dimensiona...

Social Control and the 'Noble Lie' of Plato

stratification of society. The rulers tell the populace that the divisions between one social group and another are because of div...

Justice Conceptual Inquiry

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

The Republic by Plato and Its Strengths and Weaknesses

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

Christianity and Whether or not Belief in God Has Become Less Important Than Belief in Jesus Christ

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

Beauty Concepts of Aristotle and Plato

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...

Women as Viewed by Plato

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

Healthy and Sick City Distinctions Made by Plato

a product of how "own imperfect understanding of nature, of our ignorance of how to harmonize our activities with the worlds scrip...

Spiritual Journey and Spiritual Growth

to return to the cave because its familiar and comfortable? The answer to all these questions is "yes." (Allegory of the Cave, 2...

Preemptive War and Moral Considerations

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

Women's Equality and Plato

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

Legal Profession and Ethics

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

Greek Culture and the Evolution of Science

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

Knowledge and Whether or Not Anything Can be Truly Known

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

Christianity and the Influence of Plato

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

Dictatorship, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy According to Plato

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 ...

Human Nature, Morality, Punishment, Guilt, Crime, Justice, and Law in Literature

(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...

Politics and Ethics

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

Morality and Whether Or Not It Can Exist Without God

God wills at any particular moment." To this proposition, Nielsen poses three questions: 1. Is being willed by God the, or even a,...

Inductive and Metaphysical Skepticism and Meeting Their Challenges

and balances helps to equalize what man truly knows and that which he thinks he knows - the very foundation for identifying weakne...

Aristotle and Plato on the Soul

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...

Position Argument Structuring

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

Plato and Sophocles

very powerful and just individual, putting aside the fact she was a woman. While this speaks of men, and fighting for justice, one...

Aristotle/De Anima

possibly think?" (I.3). As this indicates, Aristotles perspective is grounded in observation and reality. He sees the mind as intr...

The Pre-Socratic Philosophers and Their Search for Explanation

why so many people had to suffer. No matter the cause, the gods were not looked on with the reverence they had once enjoyed, and t...

What is Truth?

be quantified. That is, ones life may be the truth, but it cannot be articulated as the truth. Still, there had been much debate b...

The Difference Between Skill and Chance

various experiences are provided by Socrates and the others. In some way, the work examines the idea of power. After all, if someo...

Ancient Greek Philosophers

Aristotles concrete, scientific theories are more relevant than Platos deductive and abstract ideology. Aristotle believed...

Aristotle’s and Plato’s Theories in Philip Sidney’s Apology for Poetry Also Known as A Defence of Poesie

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