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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...

the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...

charges of impiety and corruption of youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens ("Socrates," 2003). While this ph...

believe. Deweys central thesis is rather controversial, but is seemingly valid, and has withstood the test of time. Indeed, Deweys...

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...

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...

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...

In three pages gender concepts are discussed in this consideration of how Plato regarded equality for women. Two sources are cite...

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

the street ... must and will reflect our personal moral standards" (Reavley, 2001). Those moral standards, Reavley implies, must ...

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 ...

of science there are two branches which are epistemology and metaphysics (Honderich, 1995). Science makes up an important part of ...

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

who will eventually hold office and decide what to pursue in respect to issues like abortion, stem cell research and capital punis...

God wills at any particular moment." To this proposition, Nielsen poses three questions: 1. Is being willed by God the, or even a,...

and balances helps to equalize what man truly knows and that which he thinks he knows - the very foundation for identifying weakne...

human being for a short span of time. The cave allegory is quite well known and has been used by many to interpret Platos philosop...

Ulman, 2005, PG). In order to construct a successful argument for a particular position, therefore, one has to first amass th...

(Sophocles). In this she is arguing how she has not followed the laws of "men" or even of the gods in this case, but rather per...

This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...

a product of how "own imperfect understanding of nature, of our ignorance of how to harmonize our activities with the worlds scrip...

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....

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

how the individual, the personality, that is a human being is likely never to experience an afterlife. In this we see that Flew do...

for example, would exist even if there were no human beings there to see it, but not that colour was an independent spiritual form...

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