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In five pages an analysis evaluates the accuracy of Socrates' description of the cave's prisoners as 'like ourselves.' There are ...

In five pages this research paper analyzes the theory of forms developed by Plato and then provides a defense of the philosopher's...

In five pages this paper examines how individual strength increases as a result of security disturbance according to the writings ...

texts The Republic and Crito, Plato learned his lessons well. In both works, Plato theorizes what justice is through deductive re...

they have experienced the fact that the truth simply is and is not an "issue" or understanding that can be discovered. "Meno" As ...

Tovald must deal with those of his subordinates. Despite his law background, he is employed as a bank manager and has a number of...

that there is just one objective right way of doing things and on the other hand, there are many truths, is an enormous difference...

In five pages this paper discusses the connection between man's sins and the soul in this analysis of three levels of thought repr...

he considered to be the most significant reason society is its own opposing force. According to Hobbes, subjects of the omnipoten...

what it is that you "can do," and then doing that for the good of the group - in this case the city. The unification of the virtu...

Knowledge is true judgment. Socrates and Theatetus are talking about the nature of knowledge. Theatetus suggests that mathematic...

In ten pages this paper applies the metaphysical tradition to an analysis of Existentialism and Basic Writings by Friedrich Nietzs...

thought and action. There are times, however, when vice distracts these efforts and renders man vulnerable to a less ethical exis...

who, even for women, is feminine perforce" (Hoff, 1997, p. 215). Indeed, Platos Symposium exemplifies the need for virtue w...

than our enemies, but inferior morally" and people must work to make themselves stronger in all respects (Plato, 1970, p. 45). ...

he means that this should apply to the average politician. Certainly, wisdom is seen as including morality. In terms of knowledge ...

interlocutor" which is consistent with the importance he places on self-knowledge as a way to attain good and happiness. Callicles...

also be allowed to have their own private property. In Aristotles belief, man is inherently born sinful. Because of this ...

terms of a high human being, one may contend that it is the spiritual being--the priests, the rabbis, the ministers--who are reall...

between Psyche and her other two sisters was that Psyche was appreciably more beautiful than they. By all accounts, the sisters we...

Republic, 2002). Therefore, according to this theory, knowledge of anything and understanding of anything comes from examination ...

What comes out of a courtroom is not necessarily truth, but which side argues best. The Sophists prided themselves on the use of p...

that leads Socrates to the conclusion that he will not be exiled from his beloved home, but would rather die a martyr for his beli...

the affirmative to that and other questions. Later on Socrates will ask: "And, in your opinion, do those who think that they will ...

of law as it has manifest in the place of which he writes about. There is some action in this work. Yet, what the action is compr...

"...no man will benefit from his profession unless he is paid as well" (Plato, 2003, p.28). One can easily see that Plato does not...

are the destroyer; and are doing what only a miserable slave would do, running away and turning your back upon the compacts and ag...

Naucratis in Egypt there dwell one of the old gods of the country, the god to whom the bird called Ibis is sacred, his own name be...

higher than those with iron. Plato argued that this deception was necessary in order to maintain a stable society, and we ca...

the topic of education. He says, "Next, said I, compare our nature in respect of education and its lack to such an experience as t...