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Essays 811 - 840
major argument in favor of poetry; that it was an educational tool that could be used in the instruction of moral values. Sidne...
smartest beings when it comes to illustrating their capacity for cultivating and understanding knowledge; therefore, the value of ...
various experiences are provided by Socrates and the others. In some way, the work examines the idea of power. After all, if someo...
will is responsible for the subsequent chain of events. Therein is the problem of free will. If it in fact exists, how...
tragedy" (Cai, 1999, p. 317). For Confucius, the focus was much narrower: when he considered poetry, he was thinking of the Book o...
as well as the people. When one views the former President of the United States, Bill Clinton, for example, one hardly thinks ab...
Introduction The issues surrounding abortion are complex to say the least. People are polarized on the issue...
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...
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...
leg only" (Plato). If this were true, if there were only one process in regards to life-death, then everything would ultimately co...
his writings (Levinson x). Socrates would continue to dominate Platos personal and professional lives for years to come, and woul...
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 ...
for, but for which there were certainly problems. People too easily give up on it. In his work entitled The History of the Pelopon...
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...
also supported what was known as the Theory of Ideas, which mainly stated that archetypal ideas (which rest in the universal)(Plan...
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...
the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...
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...
wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves social needs. A number of philosophers have contributed to the debate which...
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...
background, the points which Gray (2001) makes are surprising to say the least. Gray (2001) sees the war we as a society are wagi...
believe. Deweys central thesis is rather controversial, but is seemingly valid, and has withstood the test of time. Indeed, Deweys...
charges of impiety and corruption of youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens ("Socrates," 2003). While this ph...
had to be obtained by directing the students mind toward the discovery of what is real and important, then allowing them to deduce...