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human nature is bound by the weakness of mans character? In short, Platos (1979) freed prisoner is himself, the cave reflects the...

qualities in the face of conflict or challenge. "Deliberate effort and the taking of thoughtful pains are required...Education, a...

Lysias topic is love, which in the ancient Greek world referred to the love of a man for another man. Homosexuality was practiced...

be studied scientifically in order to derive the most rational, economic and efficient means of administering policy. The form is...

also believed in one realm. Spinoza writes: "By God, I mean a Being absolutely infinite -- that is, a substance consisting in inf...

the harp is broken the music stops; if the human dies, doesnt the soul also vanish? (Plato). It is to answer these concerns and ar...

major argument in favor of poetry; that it was an educational tool that could be used in the instruction of moral values. Sidne...

smartest beings when it comes to illustrating their capacity for cultivating and understanding knowledge; therefore, the value of ...

stratification of society. The rulers tell the populace that the divisions between one social group and another are because of div...

because it is supposed to produce truth in the end. The essence of this method is a process that usually begins with Socrates ask...

the individual and a definition of justice. There are three classes for the state to function properly: artisans, who are skilled ...

his words appear incredibly arrogant and seem to stray off the topic, as the words illustrate his intelligence and depth more than...

that is permanent and immutable. It is this world that is more real; the world of change is merely an imperfect image of this worl...

society exist without democracy? Many theorists today would think not, and while many enlightened individuals could argue that mer...

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 ...

Christ. The polytheistic society of ancient Greece was already moving toward belief in a single god by the time of Plato and his ...

draw on the human collective conscious, or the knowledge that exists in the universe, they had a glimpse of it once, and that expl...

"what is justice?" and after a definition is provided, Socrates gets the interlocutor to make a statement that would obviously con...

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...

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

Plato emphasizes the importance of maintaining self control in the face of eros, the importance of purging the passions of the fle...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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