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in order to be just. Many are familiar with the tales of Sodom and Gomorrah from the bible. They understand that many cities had ...

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 ...

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 ...

what was passing in the world around them, to the realm of re-presentative intellect. An external phenomenon is thus translated i...

and with that has come an interest in spirituality itself, outside of any religious context. It is this search for a truth that m...

can one know what is beautiful or what is ugly? There must be some sort of shared experience. Plato uses a cave allegory--somethi...

people must strive for a knowledge that only comes from being true to ones own choice. According to Plato, men and women both hav...

could be products of society, but never the causes, or it would alter the objectivity of sociology as a science (Hamilton, 1995). ...

for which they are talented. Here, it is thought that the rulers who are willing to rule, who go into the cave, who are vocal, are...

three characters (a stranger from Athens; Cleinias, from Crete; and Megillus, a Lacedaemonian) are discussing their various types ...

suggest that both love and hate can be taught (Plato). We can further extrapolate from that to conclude that if a nation is in har...

brought against me, and with my earliest accusers, and then with the later ones" (Plato, 1961, 18b). First, Socrates has been acc...

like Hades and the underworld; Tiresias the blind seer; and other references to death and dying (Plato). They decide they have to...

off than those who remain in the cave. Before delving into an analysis, it pays to explore the allegory as laid out by Plato. Wh...

noble. Socrates was doing the right thing. Today, as people wrestle with unjust rules and laws, there are some who simply follow ...

the physical in a dramatic and practical way. While Aristotle saw the heart as just a physical organ, he had an idea that seemed t...

stratification of society. The rulers tell the populace that the divisions between one social group and another are because of div...

like knowledge itself, is secure. Indeed, according to Plato correct opinion is a guide to knowledge. To be correct, opinions th...

design engineers did not intend for the Pinto to be dangerous in rear-end collisions, so the Kantian perspective essentially would...

deaths resulting from the Pintos faulty design because no one at Ford could know the future. Certainly design engineers did not i...

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...

the preexistence of the soul, and the separate existence of forms work together or not? Thats a lot of questions to tackle, and to...

if he has acquired the knowledge he could not have acquired it in this life, unless he has been taught geometry; for he may be mad...

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...

most part. He was clearly setting himself up as some sort of martyr or individual who would ultimately bring about change to the s...

the lyrics in modern songs, and in essence, the poets of today are Eminem and Jay Zee and Beyonce. Lyrics to emanate from these ar...

traditional theory of the social contract" (Rawls 514). According to Rawls, there should be a "veil of ignorance" in regards to ...

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