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Plato's Philosophy and Criticisms

thought that the Theory of Forms was useless when it came to explaining the material world "because the connection between the two...

Education, Arete or Virtue, and Plato

like knowledge itself, is secure. Indeed, according to Plato correct opinion is a guide to knowledge. To be correct, opinions th...

Meno by Plato and Recollection Theory Relevance

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...

'Canzoniere' by Petrarch

"It did not seem to me to be a time to guard myself / against Loves blows: so I went on / confident, unsuspecting; from that, my t...

Elements in Plato's Republic

fundamental importance in the Republic of the metaphor of descent and its connection to the two great themes of birth and death, a...

Belief in the Gods and Plato's Practice of Open Inquiry

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...

“Apology” and “The Passion of Christ”

most part. He was clearly setting himself up as some sort of martyr or individual who would ultimately bring about change to the s...

How Aristotle Opposes Plato's Attack on Poetry

the lyrics in modern songs, and in essence, the poets of today are Eminem and Jay Zee and Beyonce. Lyrics to emanate from these ar...

Francisco de Quevedo/Sonnet 478

hope for ever having his love requited has evaporated, but he persists in his quest regardless because it has become too late to b...

Does Romeo Really Love Juliet?

the little black book" - for good; they dont keep copies on the laptop or stashed somewhere else ("Recognizing the Signs"). They g...

Plato's Apology/Capital Punishment & Academic Freedom

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...

The Wife of Bath and the Love Poems of Sappho and Catullus

While the couple is not married in the legal sense to each other (their bonds of matrimony are with others), it becomes obvious th...

Culture, Education and Legislation in Plato's Laws

three characters (a stranger from Athens; Cleinias, from Crete; and Megillus, a Lacedaemonian) are discussing their various types ...

Plato: Law, War, Peace and Virtue in the "Laws"

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...

Love in “No Exit”

cousins wife and when he was killed by a tram, Inez took her in (Sartre). But Inez tortured Florence by constantly reminding her o...

Achilles and Socrates

ghost, a phantom-true, but no real breath of life" (23.122-23). This minimal survival apparently depends on the appropriate funera...

The Extremes of Love and Hate as an 'All or Nothing' Proposition

In five pages the fine line betwen love and hate is examined in a discussion of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short stor, 'Young Goodman B...

Love in internet relationships

online than in real life; the fact that they can start and end interactions whenever they choose also increases their confidence a...

Plato and Gender

unison (Rosen, 2005). Plato (1996) writes: "Is not the community of pleasure and pain the tie that binds? The sharing, to the grea...

Dimensions of Love

as the emotions of like, and physical attraction (Sternberg; Barnes, 1989). Where the decision or commitment component is involves...

Love in the Time of Cholera

old age. There is a symbolic reality to the novel that is always filled with a sense of illness and decay, which are all intricate...

Female Characters and Ancient Texts

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...

Love as Sickness: Marquez

One author notes how "often couples in love do not see stark differences that are obvious to others in their personality. Love oft...

Judith Ortiz Cofer's Story of First Love

to her parents, her teachers, and her classmates that something was diverting her attentions from her studies and even from her fa...

The Apology, Antigone and the Concept of Virtue

in order to insure passage to the underworld. The Underworld in this mythology was not a particularly happy place; it was a gloomy...

Did Plato Influence St. Augustine

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...

Personal Knowledge and Plato's "Allegory of the Cave"

of his text The Republic, Plato presents one of Western civilizations most accurate conceptualizations of the tremendous influence...

An Analysis of a Case Study Regarding a Life and Death Decision

Kamath (2007) goes through all the possible outcomes regarding this dilemma. He explains that if the operation goes forth, there a...

Quine's "On What There Is"

possible fat man in that doorway; and again, the possible bald man in that doorway. Are they the same possible men, or two possibl...

Plato's Allegory of the Cave: A Metaphysical View

would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images" (Plato, 1969. p. 409). He then likens the philosopher to a prisoner who ...