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Essays 511 - 540
a humans body. It sought to find pleasure and to find sustenance. "These appetites should not be allowed, to enslave the other ele...
- the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end; there is no other Lord but Him, He is God over heaven and over earth and onl...
in order to be just. Many are familiar with the tales of Sodom and Gomorrah from the bible. They understand that many cities had ...
soul, as imaged by Plato, is made up of the qualities of reason, spirit and desire or appetite (Honderich, et al, 1995). The "reas...
This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...
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 ...
and with that has come an interest in spirituality itself, outside of any religious context. It is this search for a truth that m...
people must strive for a knowledge that only comes from being true to ones own choice. According to Plato, men and women both hav...
can one know what is beautiful or what is ugly? There must be some sort of shared experience. Plato uses a cave allegory--somethi...
vision of the natural world in which Gods presence can be seen as flowing through it like an electric current. This presence can b...
humans cannot readily draw on the human collective conscious, or the knowledge that exists in the universe, they had a glimpse of ...
a weapon to the hands of a madman is obviously unjust. Taylor (2003) comments on how this refutation of Cephalus position demonstr...
n.d.). Plato did talk about God, in Timaeus, Plato said that if God made the world as perfect then the soul must be perfect, also ...
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...
the universe reveals that the natural world provides a graduated scale of existence, from lower beings to those that are higher or...
(Washington State University, 2004). Plato asserts that our perceptions are essentially "shadows" of real objects. In ot...
individual to the spiritual and the universe. According to the scala amoris, then, love is that which in its highest and purest se...
his faith (Barclay 65). The covenant with Abraham was dependent on two things: "the free grace of God and the perfect faith of Abr...
like knowledge itself, is secure. Indeed, according to Plato correct opinion is a guide to knowledge. To be correct, opinions th...
thought that the Theory of Forms was useless when it came to explaining the material world "because the connection between the two...
she proved to me as I proved to him that, by my own showing, Love was neither fair nor good. " Here, the idea that love is powerfu...
fundamental importance in the Republic of the metaphor of descent and its connection to the two great themes of birth and death, a...
In ten pages this research paper presents arguments on God's existence both pro and con and discusses beliefs of atheists. Eight ...
In five pages this paper examines Socrates' dialogue with Thrasymachus and considers his concept of justice as described in Plato'...
In ten pages this research paper examines Plato's portrayal of the soul as being imprisoned and how it relates to a harmonious sta...
In a paper consisting of three pages Socrates' philosophy that men should always act justly is in stark contrast to Machiavelli's ...
which was published in 1960, Ousmane examines the topics of race and class in two distinctly political ways. One approach that he ...
In five pages this paper examines God's views and treatment of mankind as depicted in 'Paradise Lost' by John Milton. Two other s...