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The most important characteristics of Platos concept of human nature revolve around freedom of will and ones existence. People ha...

cast them as slaves of the elite. This action of stripping an individuals inherent rights as a human being can be nothing other t...

academy the first university of its type, he was able to influence minds of the next generation and proliferate his ideas and meth...

In five pages Plato considers whether or not virtue is a concept that can be taught in Protagoras and Meno. Twelve sources are ci...

so that his assets could be pro-created and he could be put to death. Will Socrates did refuse the request, he simply went home ra...

is great interest. Plato looks at all of these things in his book The Republic. In Book I, justice is discussed and it is deemed ...

without knowing that something solid existed humanity would not see or comprehend anything but shadows. When shown that the world ...

"...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...

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

In six pages this paper examines the Greek concept of eros or love as it is portrayed in these works by Plato and Hippolytus with ...

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

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

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

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...

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...

Wisdom, and the Word of God. Therefore, intellectual knowledge is not the result of the gathering of data by the intellect, but a ...

negative aspect to this competition, or that they would sabotage one anothers efforts out of jealousy....

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

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

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

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...

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

threatening. Instead of turning the anger they felt inward, they unleashed their fury outward onto Socrates, a convenient scapego...

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

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...

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

In ten pages this paper examines the debate on affirmative action from the viewpoint of Platonic philosophy. There are 6 sources ...

In this paper of fifteen pages it is Plato that is accused of treason in this new version of 'Apology' and must defend himself aga...