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Essays 151 - 180
a persons soul retain identity after the body is gone? In other words, even if the soul survived but none of that element which wa...
wiser (21a). This news confused Socrates greatly as he realized that he was not particularly wise. He, therefore, set out to find ...
childhood, during his early life, Socrates was a sculptor, following in the footsteps of his father, Sophroniscus (Wikpedia, 2003)...
manifestation that Gorgias was forever attempting to read between the lines of what Socrates had to say, perpetually wondering if ...
As in most of his essays, Freud (1952), in Civilization and its Discontents, wrestles with human nature and why there is such a ch...
was that all humans are born with an inherent worth which he labeled human dignity (Mazur, 1993). He further felt that human dign...
David: So you can be popular? Allen: Yeah. David: Why do you want to be popular Allen? I know everyone wants to be popular in h...
beings. Euthyphro would of course agree with that sentiment and oppose Socrates on this matter. The gods of course are powerful. W...
virtue, i.e., justice, but it is also included under Aquinas discussion of love, specifically under love of ones neighbor, for Go...
as the Socratic dialogue that in many ways can be compared to todays constructivist approach to education in which he "drew forth ...
teaching, in which he pretended not to know the answers to questions, so that students would come to understanding on their own. ...
Aristotles concrete, scientific theories are more relevant than Platos deductive and abstract ideology. Aristotle believed...
because it is supposed to produce truth in the end. The essence of this method is a process that usually begins with Socrates ask...
interaction with the world, ourselves, and others. Our perceptual capacities are not fixed; they are not static or one-dimensiona...
cast them as slaves of the elite. This action of stripping an individuals inherent rights as a human being can be nothing other t...
knew nothing and was far from wise, he sets upon a course of action to find someone wiser than himself to offer to the Oracle as r...
perception is that which we, as humans, have been trained to discern as a species, inasmuch as the certain quality of perception r...
distance. In some way one can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees ...
has many flaws. There is question as to whether or not the method really gets to the truth at all. In fact, one has to wonder whet...
pundits or the mainstream media happen to be handing out at the moment. This is a process that rekindles a "child-like--but by no ...
First, Socrates, who is obviously the focus of the painting, is sitting up, still teaching as shown by his raised left hand. Hes m...
ghost, a phantom-true, but no real breath of life" (23.122-23). This minimal survival apparently depends on the appropriate funera...
very powerful and just individual, putting aside the fact she was a woman. While this speaks of men, and fighting for justice, one...
quickly taking over the world, leaving no room for anything else" (Williams, Dustin and McKenney, 2004). In his view, we were leav...
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...
and is not open to the charge of flattery" (Plato). While Socrates then discusses the love of youth, possibly referring to having ...
could be products of society, but never the causes, or it would alter the objectivity of sociology as a science (Hamilton, 1995). ...
millennia worth of philosophical comprehension of mans existence. For those who depend upon traditional practice to shepherd them...
student sees in relationship to what the image can present: "but of the ideas which they resemble; not of the figures which they d...
The writer discusses the moral and ethical positions of several philosophers including Ayer, Smith, Mackie, Socrates and Glaucon. ...