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Essays 271 - 300
In five pages this paper examines the justifiability of civil disobedience in a consideration of several philosophers and theori...
This essay discusses Robert Bolt's play that relates the life of Thomas More, A Man For All Seasons. The writer compares More's he...
In six pages this paper discusses virtue and whether or not it is possible to teach in a consideration of the dialogue between Men...
teaching, in which he pretended not to know the answers to questions, so that students would come to understanding on their own. ...
Brian Vickers portrays Plato as an intellectual Odysseus, stealthily stealing the rhetorical arsenal of the sophists and using it ...
time. And, he was not content to attempt to dispel theories of old, but was also one to attempt the disruption of more modern appr...
best and brightest citizens." After the candidates shake hands, the moderator presented the first topic for debate, that of taxat...
84). However, Socrates is willing to concede that an individual can desire an evil thing if he mistakenly first evaluates it as go...
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...
own life? Not all philosophers would agree with the path he ultimately chose. First, it is important to keep in mind that practi...
that love is beautiful and love is a god by showing them the true nature of love and the use love can be to humankind....
Aristotles concrete, scientific theories are more relevant than Platos deductive and abstract ideology. Aristotle believed...
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...
perception is that which we, as humans, have been trained to discern as a species, inasmuch as the certain quality of perception r...
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...
cast them as slaves of the elite. This action of stripping an individuals inherent rights as a human being can be nothing other t...
distance. In some way one can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees ...
interaction with the world, ourselves, and others. Our perceptual capacities are not fixed; they are not static or one-dimensiona...
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...
the harp is broken the music stops; if the human dies, doesnt the soul also vanish? (Plato). It is to answer these concerns and ar...
because it is supposed to produce truth in the end. The essence of this method is a process that usually begins with Socrates ask...
virtue, i.e., justice, but it is also included under Aquinas discussion of love, specifically under love of ones neighbor, for Go...
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...
could be products of society, but never the causes, or it would alter the objectivity of sociology as a science (Hamilton, 1995). ...
and is not open to the charge of flattery" (Plato). While Socrates then discusses the love of youth, possibly referring to having ...
consternation. Firstly, Socrates cares not how pious Euthyphro has been, explaining how the number of pious acts has absolutely n...
(Saxonhouse, 1998). This is something thought not to lead to violence, but rather to a profound gentleness (Saxonhouse, 1998). In ...