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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

a body" (Aristotle), Plato illustrates his inability to see beyond mankinds mortal connection, opting instead to focus upon a deci...

that love is beautiful and love is a god by showing them the true nature of love and the use love can be to humankind....

as the original Greek legal process aspired to achieve such status, it can readily be said that its integrity has been severely co...

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...

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 ...