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Essays 271 - 300
on this subject might want to explore various opinions on democracy and society. Socrates claimed that democracy--because it is ...
Plato's Apology and Aristotle's Poetics are both considered masterpieces of ancient Greek philosophy. This report compares the two...
living" (Plato Crito 18-19). II. ABORTION To reach true happiness, Plato believed people must strive for a contentment tha...
senate dinner, or basically a drinking party after the meal. Though it is certain that Plato took literary license with the dialog...
know what they, themselves, look like. One day, one of the people breaks free from the chains and makes it back to the outside o...
has many flaws. There is question as to whether or not the method really gets to the truth at all. In fact, one has to wonder whet...
most part. He was clearly setting himself up as some sort of martyr or individual who would ultimately bring about change to the s...
thought that the Theory of Forms was useless when it came to explaining the material world "because the connection between the two...
she proved to me as I proved to him that, by my own showing, Love was neither fair nor good. " Here, the idea that love is powerfu...
the preexistence of the soul, and the separate existence of forms work together or not? Thats a lot of questions to tackle, and to...
brought against me, and with my earliest accusers, and then with the later ones" (Plato, 1961, 18b). First, Socrates has been acc...
knew nothing and was far from wise, he sets upon a course of action to find someone wiser than himself to offer to the Oracle as r...
three characters (a stranger from Athens; Cleinias, from Crete; and Megillus, a Lacedaemonian) are discussing their various types ...
suggest that both love and hate can be taught (Plato). We can further extrapolate from that to conclude that if a nation is in har...
off than those who remain in the cave. Before delving into an analysis, it pays to explore the allegory as laid out by Plato. Wh...
noble. Socrates was doing the right thing. Today, as people wrestle with unjust rules and laws, there are some who simply follow ...
the physical in a dramatic and practical way. While Aristotle saw the heart as just a physical organ, he had an idea that seemed t...
what was passing in the world around them, to the realm of re-presentative intellect. An external phenomenon is thus translated i...
people must strive for a knowledge that only comes from being true to ones own choice. According to Plato, men and women both hav...
if he has acquired the knowledge he could not have acquired it in this life, unless he has been taught geometry; for he may be mad...
like knowledge itself, is secure. Indeed, according to Plato correct opinion is a guide to knowledge. To be correct, opinions th...
ghost, a phantom-true, but no real breath of life" (23.122-23). This minimal survival apparently depends on the appropriate funera...
possible fat man in that doorway; and again, the possible bald man in that doorway. Are they the same possible men, or two possibl...
is clear that each of them has some wish in his mind that he cant articulate; instead, like an oracle, he half-grasps what he want...
in order to insure passage to the underworld. The Underworld in this mythology was not a particularly happy place; it was a gloomy...
truly understand Gods word: "I ask Thee, my God: pardon my sins, and as Thou didst grant to Thy servant to speak those words, gran...
his job as a result of failing to comply with his editors wishes (Manning and Phiddian, 2005). Evans had been drawing cartoons ref...
wish, they have other freedoms that are perhaps not as obvious. Brave New World supports the hedonistic view. That is, Huxley (199...
would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images" (Plato, 1969. p. 409). He then likens the philosopher to a prisoner who ...
individual to the spiritual and the universe. According to the scala amoris, then, love is that which in its highest and purest se...