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In six pages this report discusses how Plato uses rhetoric persuasively in his 'Allegory of the Cave' featured in The Republic. T...

In ten pages The Republic is examined in a consideration of how Plato regarded women's status and the issue of equality. There ar...

In 5 pages this paper discusses how Hamlet's characterization was influenced by the philosophies of Saint Augustine of Hippo, Plat...

In five pages this paper considers how Socrates may have delivered a speech regarding love with references made to Symposium by ...

In five pages the views of Sartre, Hegel, Marx, and Plato on happiness are examined in a comparative analysis of their writings. ...

In ten pages this paper examines how Hobbes and Plato would view the problems currently faced by the U.S. health care industry. F...

precisely, is the mind, the elusive entity where intelligence, decision making, perception, awareness and sense of self reside? Wh...

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 ...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

surely bless you and make your descendant as numerous as the stars in the sky." Because Abraham never questioned a divine commandm...

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

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

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...

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

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

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