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who will eventually hold office and decide what to pursue in respect to issues like abortion, stem cell research and capital punis...

This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...

to return to the cave because its familiar and comfortable? The answer to all these questions is "yes." (Allegory of the Cave, 2...

In three pages gender concepts are discussed in this consideration of how Plato regarded equality for women. Two sources are cite...

a product of how "own imperfect understanding of nature, of our ignorance of how to harmonize our activities with the worlds scrip...

only thing that is known is what is presently occurring. In other words, if something is out of ones eyesight and experience, it i...

come after Plato, not before. (This example is found in Book VII of The Republic, which is available online.) As Im sure youll ...

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

works into three central periods: namely, early, middle and late and the Republic is generally regarded as a middle period work (W...

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, ...

essential to the happiness of a man - having something worth living for is as important as having something worth dying for (Bloom...

something in Platos morality which does not really belong to Plato but is only to be met with in his philosophy, one might say in ...

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

of the same) is "reason" rather than the self-conscious "I." One may then extend the concept from ethical ideas to morality, whic...

right or correct, or is there something about that action itself that God recognizes, and for this reason declares the action corr...

theory of "seeing is believing" and that something must be touched in order to be a reality. According to Goellnitz, one s...

patently incorrect assumption or definition. Socrates exercises in dialogue and thinking are not entirely negative and are certa...

this pint he is, in essence, pleading for his life and states, "I dare say that you may feel irritated at being suddenly awakened ...

the best" (the literal definition of aristocracy) was to be achieved. This scenario, by its very nature, assured the manifestatio...

the more metaphysical idea that the world of the present is known as the physical world that one is able to perceive using the sen...

leg only" (Plato). If this were true, if there were only one process in regards to life-death, then everything would ultimately co...

his writings (Levinson x). Socrates would continue to dominate Platos personal and professional lives for years to come, and woul...

the circumstance. In other words, if something can go wrong with it, that sense is considered inconsequential to the final outcome...

Socrates frequently alluded was the basis for his debates with Gorgias, contending that the degree of abstraction pursued by thoug...

Yet is it just to have such a rule in place? Furthermore is a just for a professional football team to be fined, simply because th...

is only preserved as a term of reproach" (Plato). He illustrates how the figures of men and women and the third figure were round ...

and ones existence. To reach true happiness, Plato contended that people must strive for a contentment that only comes from being...

sported the slogan "Challenge Authority." To many, it had little meaning. That is because the majority of people are sheep. They d...

education (267). One might say that the stance is rather snobbish, but many do separate vocational and academic curriculums. They ...

she taught him that the journey of the soul is to go from the immediate experience of the everyday world and ascend into a realm t...