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to be transcendent elements sent to teach important lessons turns out to be nothing more than images cast from puppets whose shado...

Although biblical, the story provides a warning in that perhaps a little knowledge can be harmful. Another point of view is that k...

between the citizens. Taken together, the guardians are people who are skilled in governing certain areas. However, these two type...

to the outside, the cave becomes a type of conduit, or birth canal which brings him into the life of actual knowledge. What one ca...

reaching true conclusions and therefore may use their knowledge of language and logic to confuse the average person on the issues ...

So for Plato, this idea extended into both personal and political ramifications. He reasoned that when an individual was doing th...

a humans body. It sought to find pleasure and to find sustenance. "These appetites should not be allowed, to enslave the other ele...

is a case for communism at least for the lower classes. The supporting premises for that conclusion have already been noted and ge...

on this subject might want to explore various opinions on democracy and society. Socrates claimed that democracy--because it is ...

concepts that are far beyond his level of comprehension, only to ultimately be able to process the information. To reach true m...

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...

call to action. Bruskin explains that "The essence of the period is that we were galvanized to do something." (32). While docume...

senate dinner, or basically a drinking party after the meal. Though it is certain that Plato took literary license with the dialog...

living" (Plato Crito 18-19). II. ABORTION To reach true happiness, Plato believed people must strive for a contentment tha...

he had dragged him out into the light of the sun" he would be distressed. For Socrates, the world above ground represents the othe...

much like ourselves. As this suggests, Socrates means to make it clear that this allegory has relevance to the realities of everyd...

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...

at once managed for himself to become one of the envoys to the king ; upon arrival, having seduced his wife, with her help, he lai...

of subjective satisfaction (Seifert, 2003). Moral goodness just is. One looks at a baby or a puppy and thinks that these living th...

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...

change and that personality stays the same. In order to comprehend why this is not the case, and understand the thesis which also ...

would be clearly dependent upon the eye of the beholder. Therefore, the conclusions were not judgments, per se, but were response...

This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...

soul, as imaged by Plato, is made up of the qualities of reason, spirit and desire or appetite (Honderich, et al, 1995). The "reas...

In seven pages the cave allegory featured in Plato's Republic is applied to contemporary U.S. political leadership. Four sources ...

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 ...