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Essays 541 - 570
in order to be just. Many are familiar with the tales of Sodom and Gomorrah from the bible. They understand that many cities had ...
humans cannot readily draw on the human collective conscious, or the knowledge that exists in the universe, they had a glimpse of ...
In a paper that consists of eight pages Plato's interpretation of the soul and its parts are explored along with a discussion of t...
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 ...
a weapon to the hands of a madman is obviously unjust. Taylor (2003) comments on how this refutation of Cephalus position demonstr...
of death, as well as the mystery of death. This establishes a foundation from which we can learn, especially considering that Nula...
individual to the spiritual and the universe. According to the scala amoris, then, love is that which in its highest and purest se...
ideas. As we shall soon see, through these speeches Plato seems to have reasoned out how it is that mankind make their way from th...
from the fact that I realized that I knew nothing. A man of my era named Chaerephon once asked the Oracle at Delphi is there w...
the affirmative to that and other questions. Later on Socrates will ask: "And, in your opinion, do those who think that they will ...
What comes out of a courtroom is not necessarily truth, but which side argues best. The Sophists prided themselves on the use of p...
wiser (21a). This news confused Socrates greatly as he realized that he was not particularly wise. He, therefore, set out to find ...
Platonic love reflects the deepest love possible between two people, in that it does not abide by the notions of restriction, jeal...
Naucratis in Egypt there dwell one of the old gods of the country, the god to whom the bird called Ibis is sacred, his own name be...
higher than those with iron. Plato argued that this deception was necessary in order to maintain a stable society, and we ca...
are the destroyer; and are doing what only a miserable slave would do, running away and turning your back upon the compacts and ag...
terms of a high human being, one may contend that it is the spiritual being--the priests, the rabbis, the ministers--who are reall...
"Metamorphoses" and Socrates "Apology". While "Apology" is Platos account of Socrates trial and ultimate death it is also...
also be allowed to have their own private property. In Aristotles belief, man is inherently born sinful. Because of this ...
he means that this should apply to the average politician. Certainly, wisdom is seen as including morality. In terms of knowledge ...
interlocutor" which is consistent with the importance he places on self-knowledge as a way to attain good and happiness. Callicles...
than our enemies, but inferior morally" and people must work to make themselves stronger in all respects (Plato, 1970, p. 45). ...
"...no man will benefit from his profession unless he is paid as well" (Plato, 2003, p.28). One can easily see that Plato does not...
the topic of education. He says, "Next, said I, compare our nature in respect of education and its lack to such an experience as t...
is great interest. Plato looks at all of these things in his book The Republic. In Book I, justice is discussed and it is deemed ...
without knowing that something solid existed humanity would not see or comprehend anything but shadows. When shown that the world ...
thought and action. There are times, however, when vice distracts these efforts and renders man vulnerable to a less ethical exis...
who, even for women, is feminine perforce" (Hoff, 1997, p. 215). Indeed, Platos Symposium exemplifies the need for virtue w...
In ten pages this paper applies the metaphysical tradition to an analysis of Existentialism and Basic Writings by Friedrich Nietzs...