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Pre-Socratic Philosophers as Compared with Later Thinkers

of fire (The New York Times, 2008). He lived during the late fifth century BC (The New York Times, 2008). The Eleatic school for i...

The Cave and The Divided Line

student sees in relationship to what the image can present: "but of the ideas which they resemble; not of the figures which they d...

God’s Existence: Craig, Socrates, and Nietzsche

if they were not a part of society then it would be obvious that God did not exist. In relationship to what other philosophers fro...

Jacques-Louis David: “The Death of Socrates”

First, Socrates, who is obviously the focus of the painting, is sitting up, still teaching as shown by his raised left hand. Hes m...

Achilles and Socrates

ghost, a phantom-true, but no real breath of life" (23.122-23). This minimal survival apparently depends on the appropriate funera...

Unstoppable Knowledge Pursuit

In five pages this paper considers the philosophical views of David Hume and Socrates regarding Ralph Waldo Emerson's observation ...

Astronomy and Greece

Since approximately 700 B. C., astronomy had a great deal to do with keeping time (PG). Natural periods of time were generated th...

Sophocles, Aristotle, and Socrates on Political Man and Sense of Duty

In seven pages this paper examines the conflict of man's struggles in accepting duties and responsibilities to the polis from the ...

Greek Philosophers and Myth v. Knowledge

he did not know the true cause of an action he would readily admit to not knowing. This should not be mistaken however for a will...

Man of All Seaons/Robert Bolt

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...

Civil Disobedience and Socrates

In five pages this paper examines the justifiability of civil disobedience in a consideration of several philosophers and theori...

Paradox of Learning in Plato' Meno

For Socrates, and consequently Plato, the great business of life was conversation. He sought out everyone, and seizing upon some e...

Virtue and Meno by Plato

In six pages this paper discusses virtue and whether or not it is possible to teach in a consideration of the dialogue between Men...

Crito's Argument That Socrates Should Escape from Prison

In five pages this paper considers why Crito believes Socrates should attempt a prison escape instead of subject himself to capita...

Dialogue Between Gorgias and Socrates

In six pages this paper examines Plato's Gorgias which describes a philosophical dialogue between the title character and Socrates...

Views by Plato and Socrates That No One Knowingly Commits Wrong

the amount of knowledge that anyone has very little to do with doing things that are wrong. Now, understandably, we can see wher...

Parmenides Dialogue by Plato

that can be grasped with the human mind, but not with human senses (Gill, 1996,p. 1). The first part of the Parmenides, Plato has...

Justice and the Argument Between Socrates and Polemarchus in The Republic by Plato

do good, not evil to their friends (Plato, 2002). As this indicates, Polemarchus works hard to defend his fathers "rule of thumb...

Athens, Duty, Pericles and Socrates

that Pericles was a man who felt a powerful sense of duty to his city. He was, after all, an official who stood as one who support...

Love According to Socrates in Symposium by Plato

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....

Chuang Tzu and Socrates on State Obedience versus Self Interest

own life? Not all philosophers would agree with the path he ultimately chose. First, it is important to keep in mind that practi...

Theories and Methods of Socrates and Plato

Brian Vickers portrays Plato as an intellectual Odysseus, stealthily stealing the rhetorical arsenal of the sophists and using it ...

Hypothetical Debate Between Presidential Candidates Socrates and Henry David Thoreau

best and brightest citizens." After the candidates shake hands, the moderator presented the first topic for debate, that of taxat...

Thelma Z. Levine's From Socrates to Sartre

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...

Cinematic Portrayal of Greek Virtue and Philosophers

84). However, Socrates is willing to concede that an individual can desire an evil thing if he mistakenly first evaluates it as go...

Socrates on the Body and Soul

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...

Ovid's Metamorphoses and Socrates in Plato's Apology

"Metamorphoses" and Socrates "Apology". While "Apology" is Platos account of Socrates trial and ultimate death it is also...

Sickness Unto Death by Soren Kierkegaard

he sought to bring truth to others. Does Socrates Do Evil? From Kierkegaards position it is perhaps truth that all people do e...

Student Question on a Person's Obligation to Obey Community Law

support for the notion that people must obey the laws of the place in which they are born. How is this accomplished? Aristotle d...

Socrates and Callicles Dialogue

to shake off these social controls and become the master rather than the slave. This, he argues, is the true justice of nature: la...