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within the domestic sphere. Therefore, a Greek man typically took a younger male as his main love interest because only a man coul...

is an eternity to teenagers. It was his intention to tell the story of a generation coming of age in one night" (Hyams et al PG)....

He saw the changing world and the things within it as mere shadows or reflections of a separate world of independently existing, e...

individual is just it is because each part of his or her soul performs its functions properly and does not interfere with the othe...

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

In five pages this research essay discusses how private property is conceptualized by John Locke and Plato with the writer's own p...

looked at in the context of history and of the study of philosophy. II. Metaphysics Metaphysics is an abstract part of philos...

trial for treason and his thoughts prior to his execution. These are the Apology, the Crito and the Phaedo, which is an account of...

the supreme principle, the fundamental principle on which any well-ordered society could live (Bhandari, nd). Plato was certainl...

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...

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

the kings and philosophers -- should not have the right to bear children or even own their own property. This, he maintained, wou...

a leader? How should a prince behave? Although the motive for Machiavelli writing this piece, and the application of this work to ...

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

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

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

motives of ambition -- it has no name in common use that I know of; let us call it timarchy or timocracy -- and then go on to ol...

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

is supplemented by innate elements of the intellect (DeLouth, 2002). This theory keyed into the nature-nurture debate. Skipping ...

In six pages this paper analyzes The Republic by Plato in a consideration of how women's roles are portrayed. There is 1 source c...

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...

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...

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

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 ...

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

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...

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...