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

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

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...

"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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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