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Essays 481 - 510
speaker is Philo, a religious skeptic (Johnson 266). The discussion is chiefly between Philo and Cleanthes, with occasional remar...
Plato's Apology and Aristotle's Poetics are both considered masterpieces of ancient Greek philosophy. This report compares the two...
on this subject might want to explore various opinions on democracy and society. Socrates claimed that democracy--because it is ...
are already well acquainted with the Torah, his book provides an excellent introduction for those that are only somewhat familiar ...
call to action. Bruskin explains that "The essence of the period is that we were galvanized to do something." (32). While docume...
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...
of quickness and penetration, piercing easily below the clumsy platitudes of Thrasymachus to the real difficulty; he turns out to ...
to the average man who does not embark on philosophical pursuits, and does not wonder how the world began but accepts the explanat...
attempt to free themselves. What he has realized is that what they had seen all along on the wall of the cave were mere representa...
Socrates ideas. He states that he will be Euthyphros student in these matters. Of course, it would seem that Socrates is being a b...
then, accompanied by proof, it can therefore be called knowledge. He seems to move in circles a bit with this assertion, in that ...
In seven pages this essay contrasts morality as depicted in Plato's Apology and Sophocles' Antigone. Two sources are cited in t...
at the bottom of the ladder, and humanity at the top, by virtue of the faculty of reason (Augustine of Hippo, 2001). After carefu...
that there is "within the human mind, and indeed by natural instinct, an awareness of divinity," that "God himself has implanted i...
philosophical thought begs to differ. In the pre-Plato period, for example, the prevailing belief was that pleasure was immediate ...
have merit, they are essentially inapplicable to our contemporary concerns regarding knowledge. In other words, while knowledge m...
is Anselms primary opponent in his argument regarding the existence of God. Kants separation between the analytic and the synthet...
various things as they approach in diverse ways toward something that is the greatest, just as in the case of hotter (more hot) wh...
change and that personality stays the same. In order to comprehend why this is not the case, and understand the thesis which also ...
constant when the resultant external force acting on the system is zero" and if the system is the universe there are no external f...
much like ourselves. As this suggests, Socrates means to make it clear that this allegory has relevance to the realities of everyd...
senate dinner, or basically a drinking party after the meal. Though it is certain that Plato took literary license with the dialog...
concepts that are far beyond his level of comprehension, only to ultimately be able to process the information. To reach true m...
he had dragged him out into the light of the sun" he would be distressed. For Socrates, the world above ground represents the othe...
living" (Plato Crito 18-19). II. ABORTION To reach true happiness, Plato believed people must strive for a contentment tha...
know what they, themselves, look like. One day, one of the people breaks free from the chains and makes it back to the outside o...
be a less sure guide than revelation; however, Aquinas did believe it possible to reach certain truths without the aid of revelati...
yet does not lose faith in the just and true" (Plato Jowett Translation Characters). In this we see that Plato appears to be indic...
would be clearly dependent upon the eye of the beholder. Therefore, the conclusions were not judgments, per se, but were response...
soul, as imaged by Plato, is made up of the qualities of reason, spirit and desire or appetite (Honderich, et al, 1995). The "reas...