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how ones intellect cannot be considered a gender. In other words, intelligence is intelligence regardless of where it is housed. ...

are afraid because ignorant, and perceive the pain and not the benefits; nor do they apprehend that a sick soul is worse than a si...

is no realistic political system, for it takes considerably more than one mans word to impart a true sense of unity. "Thus, for y...

with sickness, or the pilot who helps friends against "the perils of the sea" (Plato Book I). He then inquires into "what sort of ...

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

human being from conception to death is encapsulated in a pod. In Platos Cave the only thing that they can see is...

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

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...

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...

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

In six pages this paper analyzes the contention of Socrates that an 'unexamined life is not worth living' as this view is represen...

profit than seeking knowledge. The schools headmaster was Socrates, and Strepsiades hopes that Phidippides will be able to apply ...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

thought that the Theory of Forms was useless when it came to explaining the material world "because the connection between the two...

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

of his text The Republic, Plato presents one of Western civilizations most accurate conceptualizations of the tremendous influence...

for the student of psychology to develop a well-rounded and complete understanding of the discipline, it is necessary to study bot...