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Aristotles concrete, scientific theories are more relevant than Platos deductive and abstract ideology. Aristotle believed...

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

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...

his argument to the priestess who taught him mysteries in his youth, Diotima of Mantinea. Attributing his words to Diotima, Socrat...

wine and pleasure, and rejecting the cold and structured nature of Apollonian society. For them, to be human is to follow ones bas...

societys goods (Platos Political Theory, 2002). They were satisfied with their lives and held back from being passionate natured ...

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

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

interprets the ideal of freedom and to what extent they live in their own psychological prisons. Social freedom means that one wil...

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...

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

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

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

the more metaphysical idea that the world of the present is known as the physical world that one is able to perceive using the sen...

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

Socrates frequently alluded was the basis for his debates with Gorgias, contending that the degree of abstraction pursued by thoug...

life fulfillment and that a disabled individual should be allowed to die because their quality of life will not allow them to find...

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...

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

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

(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...

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...

In ten pages this tutorial paper imagines a lively dialogue between political philosophers including St. Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle...