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

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...

wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves social needs. A number of philosophers have contributed to the debate which...

wine and pleasure, and rejecting the cold and structured nature of Apollonian society. For them, to be human is to follow ones bas...

his argument to the priestess who taught him mysteries in his youth, Diotima of Mantinea. Attributing his words to Diotima, Socrat...

societys goods (Platos Political Theory, 2002). They were satisfied with their lives and held back from being passionate natured ...

offer a profusion of pleasures... injustice pays better than justice" (364b). Next, Socrates appeared to shift gears and direct t...

they know was agreed upon in full assembly; and should it be decided that this is not so, the poor have discovered a hundred excus...

However, Allen also makes the point that Platos attitude was at least partially due to his respect and fear of the powers of art o...

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

that the story being told is one that has been re-told so often that it is little more than hearsay, and it is from this "story of...

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

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...

had to be obtained by directing the students mind toward the discovery of what is real and important, then allowing them to deduce...

of innate knowledge, he was adamant that nothing could be learned except through experience and sensory input: "How comes [the mi...

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

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

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

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...

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

original thirteen colonies on which the new United States of America was founded removed their approval of being governed by the B...

also supported what was known as the Theory of Ideas, which mainly stated that archetypal ideas (which rest in the universal)(Plan...

for, but for which there were certainly problems. People too easily give up on it. In his work entitled The History of the Pelopon...

as well as the people. When one views the former President of the United States, Bill Clinton, for example, one hardly thinks ab...

around, arousing them and persuading them. He illustrates how people are often irritated by him because they feel they have been r...

he make it eternal anyway? Many people think of the universe as something that was eternal in the first place, irrespective of wha...

subject of forms. While Plato held a dual realms theory, Aristotle saw form and matter as existing in the same realm. In discussi...

that was determined by human will, in that people choose whether or not to keep their promises (Hobbes, 1982). Those that keep th...

can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees it as symbolic of humans o...