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Essays 211 - 240
In seven pages the cave allegory featured in Plato's Republic is applied to contemporary U.S. political leadership. Four sources ...
humans cannot readily draw on the human collective conscious, or the knowledge that exists in the universe, they had a glimpse of ...
a weapon to the hands of a madman is obviously unjust. Taylor (2003) comments on how this refutation of Cephalus position demonstr...
This essay focuses on Plato's use of dialogue in his "Apology" and "Crito," and Augustine's use of the monologue in his "Confessio...
people must strive for a knowledge that only comes from being true to ones own choice. According to Plato, men and women both hav...
what was passing in the world around them, to the realm of re-presentative intellect. An external phenomenon is thus translated i...
In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at Plato's theories of Forms. Parmenides' views on change provide a counterpoint. Paper ...
This paper discusses different parts of Plato's Republic. There is a discussion of natural law legal theory and legal positivist t...
This essay pertains to Plato's perception of rhetoric and the role of eros, as indicated by his texts Gorgias and Phaedrus. Five p...
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...
for the student of psychology to develop a well-rounded and complete understanding of the discipline, it is necessary to study bot...
of his text The Republic, Plato presents one of Western civilizations most accurate conceptualizations of the tremendous influence...
Kamath (2007) goes through all the possible outcomes regarding this dilemma. He explains that if the operation goes forth, there a...
in order to insure passage to the underworld. The Underworld in this mythology was not a particularly happy place; it was a gloomy...
truly understand Gods word: "I ask Thee, my God: pardon my sins, and as Thou didst grant to Thy servant to speak those words, gran...
would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images" (Plato, 1969. p. 409). He then likens the philosopher to a prisoner who ...
wish, they have other freedoms that are perhaps not as obvious. Brave New World supports the hedonistic view. That is, Huxley (199...
could be products of society, but never the causes, or it would alter the objectivity of sociology as a science (Hamilton, 1995). ...
unison (Rosen, 2005). Plato (1996) writes: "Is not the community of pleasure and pain the tie that binds? The sharing, to the grea...
ghost, a phantom-true, but no real breath of life" (23.122-23). This minimal survival apparently depends on the appropriate funera...
possible fat man in that doorway; and again, the possible bald man in that doorway. Are they the same possible men, or two possibl...
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...
how ones intellect cannot be considered a gender. In other words, intelligence is intelligence regardless of where it is housed. ...
reaching true conclusions and therefore may use their knowledge of language and logic to confuse the average person on the issues ...
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...
with sickness, or the pilot who helps friends against "the perils of the sea" (Plato Book I). He then inquires into "what sort of ...
is no realistic political system, for it takes considerably more than one mans word to impart a true sense of unity. "Thus, for y...
fundamental importance in the Republic of the metaphor of descent and its connection to the two great themes of birth and death, a...