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Essays 361 - 390
In five pages this report argues that both Protagoras and Socrates' ideals are ascetic and hedonistic as presented in Plato's dial...
In five pages this report discusses Plato's dialogues in terms of how Socrates regarded his philosophical role and how he was pres...
In six pages this report examines individual understanding of the world as considered in Plato's Phaedo, in the scientific inquiry...
This 7 page paper explores three different philosophical concents: the design theory, Kant's theories of knowledge and Plato's ide...
it is not necessary that everybody feel compelled or obligated to do so. Moral Communitarianism The philosophy and scholarship of...
This 5 page paper examines the way in which one can use the Socratic method to find the truth. The writer also discusses the conce...
and the things within it as mere shadows or reflections of a separate world of independently existing, eternal, and unchanging ent...
This paper examines how love is conceptualized by Plato in Symposium when contrasted and compared with the views of Isaac Singer i...
the right trends to follow and being in the right place at the right time. Platos Vision Platos vision of reality presents the c...
In six pages The Book of Job from the Old Testament, Antigone by Sophocles, Crito and Apology by Plato, and The Clouds by Aristoph...
In eight pages the philosophies of these great ancient Greek thinkers on these topics are examined with terms including peitho, ag...
In twelve pages Plato's dialogues The Republic, Phaedrus, and Gorgias are examined in an analysis of how the philosopher conceptua...
In six pages this paper examines the just society quest as philosophically considered by John Stuart Mill in 'On Liberty,' Jean Ja...
brought against me, and with my earliest accusers, and then with the later ones" (Plato, 1961, 18b). First, Socrates has been acc...
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...
fundamental importance in the Republic of the metaphor of descent and its connection to the two great themes of birth and death, a...
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...
thought that the Theory of Forms was useless when it came to explaining the material world "because the connection between the two...
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...
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...
the preexistence of the soul, and the separate existence of forms work together or not? Thats a lot of questions to tackle, and to...
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...
like knowledge itself, is secure. Indeed, according to Plato correct opinion is a guide to knowledge. To be correct, opinions th...
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...
like Hades and the underworld; Tiresias the blind seer; and other references to death and dying (Plato). They decide they have to...
important characteristics of Platos concept revolve around freedom of will and ones existence. People have the power to control t...
noble. Socrates was doing the right thing. Today, as people wrestle with unjust rules and laws, there are some who simply follow ...
is not, if she has the courage to break away and follow her own convictions. She tries to reassure her mother that shell write, ...