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brought against me, and with my earliest accusers, and then with the later ones" (Plato, 1961, 18b). First, Socrates has been acc...

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...

like Hades and the underworld; Tiresias the blind seer; and other references to death and dying (Plato). They decide they have to...

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...

In a type of author/character debate, Plato explores the premises of his theory by having Socrates debate them. Plato theorized ...

In a paper that consists of eight pages Plato's interpretation of the soul and its parts are explored along with a discussion of t...

In seven pages the cave allegory featured in Plato's Republic is applied to contemporary U.S. political leadership. Four sources ...

This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...

in order to be just. Many are familiar with the tales of Sodom and Gomorrah from the bible. They understand that many cities had ...

and with that has come an interest in spirituality itself, outside of any religious context. It is this search for a truth that m...

can one know what is beautiful or what is ugly? There must be some sort of shared experience. Plato uses a cave allegory--somethi...

what was passing in the world around them, to the realm of re-presentative intellect. An external phenomenon is thus translated i...

individual to the spiritual and the universe. According to the scala amoris, then, love is that which in its highest and purest se...

ideas. As we shall soon see, through these speeches Plato seems to have reasoned out how it is that mankind make their way from th...

of death, as well as the mystery of death. This establishes a foundation from which we can learn, especially considering that Nula...

humans cannot readily draw on the human collective conscious, or the knowledge that exists in the universe, they had a glimpse of ...

a weapon to the hands of a madman is obviously unjust. Taylor (2003) comments on how this refutation of Cephalus position demonstr...

n.d.). Plato did talk about God, in Timaeus, Plato said that if God made the world as perfect then the soul must be perfect, also ...

have merit, they are essentially inapplicable to our contemporary concerns regarding knowledge. In other words, while knowledge m...

at once managed for himself to become one of the envoys to the king ; upon arrival, having seduced his wife, with her help, he lai...

of subjective satisfaction (Seifert, 2003). Moral goodness just is. One looks at a baby or a puppy and thinks that these living th...

a humans body. It sought to find pleasure and to find sustenance. "These appetites should not be allowed, to enslave the other ele...

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...

he had dragged him out into the light of the sun" he would be distressed. For Socrates, the world above ground represents the othe...

much like ourselves. As this suggests, Socrates means to make it clear that this allegory has relevance to the realities of everyd...

change and that personality stays the same. In order to comprehend why this is not the case, and understand the thesis which also ...

yet does not lose faith in the just and true" (Plato Jowett Translation Characters). In this we see that Plato appears to be indic...