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would be clearly dependent upon the eye of the beholder. Therefore, the conclusions were not judgments, per se, but were response...

In six pages this paper analyzes the contention of Socrates that an 'unexamined life is not worth living' as this view is represen...

profit than seeking knowledge. The schools headmaster was Socrates, and Strepsiades hopes that Phidippides will be able to apply ...

So for Plato, this idea extended into both personal and political ramifications. He reasoned that when an individual was doing th...

to be transcendent elements sent to teach important lessons turns out to be nothing more than images cast from puppets whose shado...

Although biblical, the story provides a warning in that perhaps a little knowledge can be harmful. Another point of view is that k...

human being from conception to death is encapsulated in a pod. In Platos Cave the only thing that they can see is...

to the outside, the cave becomes a type of conduit, or birth canal which brings him into the life of actual knowledge. What one ca...

from the fact that I realized that I knew nothing. A man of my era named Chaerephon once asked the Oracle at Delphi is there w...

are afraid because ignorant, and perceive the pain and not the benefits; nor do they apprehend that a sick soul is worse than a si...

is no realistic political system, for it takes considerably more than one mans word to impart a true sense of unity. "Thus, for y...

how ones intellect cannot be considered a gender. In other words, intelligence is intelligence regardless of where it is housed. ...

between the citizens. Taken together, the guardians are people who are skilled in governing certain areas. However, these two type...

reaching true conclusions and therefore may use their knowledge of language and logic to confuse the average person on the issues ...

of quickness and penetration, piercing easily below the clumsy platitudes of Thrasymachus to the real difficulty; he turns out to ...

call to action. Bruskin explains that "The essence of the period is that we were galvanized to do something." (32). While docume...

the soul. What the mind or soul once knew is raised to present awareness by a process of recollection aided by the technique of di...

concepts that are far beyond his level of comprehension, only to ultimately be able to process the information. To reach true m...

was that they were certain and immutable. Also, knowledge must have as its objective that which is genuinely real as compared to t...

then, accompanied by proof, it can therefore be called knowledge. He seems to move in circles a bit with this assertion, in that ...

pleas, Socrates will not hear of any escape plans. He points out that, even though the sentence was unjust, it was perfectly legal...

role in this respect. Plato held that the key agent in any sort of behavior but especially ethical or moral behavior (or lack of t...

do good, not evil to their friends (Plato, 2002). As this indicates, Polemarchus works hard to defend his fathers "rule of thumb...

impious act. Euthyphro replies to Socrates claiming "I am amused, Socrates, at your making a distinction between one who is a re...

In six pages good and evil are examined along with Plato's assertion that evil is not knowingly committed by man. There are no ot...

tone and character with the description of Xenophon, who says in the Memorabilia that Socrates might have been acquitted if in any...

it would seem. Socrates agrees for he sees that by having such an argument with Euthyphro he may find a better way to plead his ow...