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This research report looks at how Descartes would feel about Plato's ideas. Would he agree with Plato in his ideas about death? Th...
In five pages this essay contrasts and compares the views on forms held by Plato as critiqued by Aristotle with references made to...
student introduce and summarize Platos "allegory of the cave". The allegory of the cave, as it is commonly known, is a dialogue be...
Brian Vickers portrays Plato as an intellectual Odysseus, stealthily stealing the rhetorical arsenal of the sophists and using it ...
of souls (Frost 104). It is possible that Plato was attempting to use popular belief to promote the teaching of more profound trut...
was to start writing down all the things he could remember that Socrates had said, writing down conversations he had hear and also...
different aspects of individual virtue can be seen to be included. Meno offers the suggestion that virtue can be defined as the wi...
In four pages this paper discusses the soul's immortality as represented in Socrates' arguments that are featured in Meno by Plato...
must pay for such without question. In Crito, we see Socrates pretending that the laws are coming to talk to him. They say to him...
a familiar kind of Socratic dialogue about justice, just as the Euthyphro is about piety and the Meno is about virtue. The Republi...
defines it as sort of a liveliness of vividness that accompanies the perception of a new idea. A belief, he says, is more than an...
In five pages Plato by Robert W. Hall is analyzed. There are no other sources listed....
"what is justice?" and after a definition is provided, Socrates gets the interlocutor to make a statement that would obviously con...
upon expressing an objective truth. For example, approving of an action and stating that the action is right can be construed as ...
In six pages these societies are contrasted and compares as they relate to philosophies expressed in the Bible and the writings of...
What constitutes good is considered from a philosophical perspective in five pages with the focus being on the philosophies of Pla...
In six pages issues involving cultural prejudice in the classroom and how the educator should handle such an occurrence is conside...
looked at in the context of history and of the study of philosophy. II. Metaphysics Metaphysics is an abstract part of philos...
In five pages this paper discusses the philosophies of God as espoused by Socrates and Aristotle in a comparison and contrast of A...
In 5 pages this paper discusses how Hamlet's characterization was influenced by the philosophies of Saint Augustine of Hippo, Plat...
In eight pages this paper discusses whether or not the government is justified in legally regulating marijuana use according to th...
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...
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...
youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...
education is still substantially elevated in contemporary culture. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees virtue as choice and so mora...
for Plato and are directly related to that capacity of understanding. Physical things of the world must, of necessity, have bodily...
(2002) argument is based on his experiences as first a federal prosecutor, then a trial judge, and finally a California Superior C...
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...
wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves social needs. A number of philosophers have contributed to the debate which...