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of fire (The New York Times, 2008). He lived during the late fifth century BC (The New York Times, 2008). The Eleatic school for i...

words, "how does one KNOW that this is the truth". Most of Socrates teaching took place on the steps of a Lyceum, much like an a...

also wrote that one could live justly only if they lived in a just society (Beck, n.d.). Plato had a number of caveats about a jus...

background, the points which Gray (2001) makes are surprising to say the least. Gray (2001) sees the war we as a society are wagi...

84). However, Socrates is willing to concede that an individual can desire an evil thing if he mistakenly first evaluates it as go...

is good (Frost 84). For Socrates, "a life which is always inquiring and trying to discover what is good is the best kind of life, ...

that love is beautiful and love is a god by showing them the true nature of love and the use love can be to humankind....

(2002) argument is based on his experiences as first a federal prosecutor, then a trial judge, and finally a California Superior C...

youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...

classes in the State severally did their own business; and also thought to be temperate and valiant and wise by reason of certain ...

for Plato and are directly related to that capacity of understanding. Physical things of the world must, of necessity, have bodily...

In five pages justice is defined by Adeimentus, Glaucon, and Thrasymachus and then a response is offered by Socrates in The Republ...

in fact more beneficial than justice and that the role of a good leader is to recognize when it is necessary to take action that a...

no matter how insignificant or trite they may seem. However, it would seem that he believed that there were at least two types of ...

the amount of knowledge that anyone has very little to do with doing things that are wrong. Now, understandably, we can see wher...

fact that they were poets made them think that they had a perfect understanding of all other subjects, of which they were totally ...

In five pages this essay examines the mind and soul dichotomy as conceptualized by Socrates and represented by Plato in Apology an...

In three pages this paper considers whether or not learning is new information or simply recollection of past experience according...

In two pages this paper considers how Socrates presents the soul's immortality in Phaedo by Plato. There are no other sources lis...

In fourteen pages this paper examines Socrates in an overview of his life and philosophical views regarding law, religion, reason ...

In six pages this research paper considers how the death concept was applied to the scheme of life through the classical Greek phi...

In twenty five pages this paper examines the philosophies of Aristotle, Socrates, and Plato as they influenced the origins of the...

In four pages this paper examines how Plato and Socrates were philosophically viewed by Nietzsche. Two sources are cited in the b...

he did not know the true cause of an action he would readily admit to not knowing. This should not be mistaken however for a will...

Since approximately 700 B. C., astronomy had a great deal to do with keeping time (PG). Natural periods of time were generated th...

In six pages this paper discusses virtue and whether or not it is possible to teach in a consideration of the dialogue between Men...

upon expressing an objective truth. For example, approving of an action and stating that the action is right can be construed as ...

In four pages this paper examines how beauty and love were conceptualized by Socrates as portrayed in Symposium by Plato through i...

In 6 pages this paper critically analyzes Socrates argument regarding justice in this text and the use of logical deduction by Pla...

In seven pages this paper examines the religious views of Socrates as described by Plato in Apology with the focus being upon hi...