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a body" (Aristotle), Plato illustrates his inability to see beyond mankinds mortal connection, opting instead to focus upon a deci...

top the list. The Catholic Church is often quoted as having said, "Give me a child until he is seven and he will always be Catholi...

the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...

for, but for which there were certainly problems. People too easily give up on it. In his work entitled The History of the Pelopon...

their own power and superiority. There was no real learning about the culture on the part of the Westerners, but rather a sense o...

she proved to me as I proved to him that, by my own showing, Love was neither fair nor good. " Here, the idea that love is powerfu...

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

the idea that indeed, there is something that is true and real. Whether or not individual human beings know what that is, is besid...

2004b). They can be used for self-directed study, small group study, projects, experiments or in many other ways (NCREL, 2004b). ...

that is permanent and immutable. It is this world that is more real; the world of change is merely an imperfect image of this worl...

Christ. The polytheistic society of ancient Greece was already moving toward belief in a single god by the time of Plato and his ...

noble. Socrates was doing the right thing. Today, as people wrestle with unjust rules and laws, there are some who simply follow ...

This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...

to return to the cave because its familiar and comfortable? The answer to all these questions is "yes." (Allegory of the Cave, 2...

of science there are two branches which are epistemology and metaphysics (Honderich, 1995). Science makes up an important part of ...

what no republic may dare" (1784). Interestingly, about five years after the writing of this piece the French would take the heads...

In ten pages this tutorial paper imagines a lively dialogue between political philosophers including St. Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle...

who will eventually hold office and decide what to pursue in respect to issues like abortion, stem cell research and capital punis...

human being for a short span of time. The cave allegory is quite well known and has been used by many to interpret Platos philosop...

Ulman, 2005, PG). In order to construct a successful argument for a particular position, therefore, one has to first amass th...

major argument in favor of poetry; that it was an educational tool that could be used in the instruction of moral values. Sidne...

pundits or the mainstream media happen to be handing out at the moment. This is a process that rekindles a "child-like--but by no ...

can be found in many church doctrines today (Fisher, 2006). Augustine was a seeker of truth throughout his life (Smitha, 1998). H...

the strongest objection is to defend human composition by illustrating how equating the two are like comparing apples and oranges....

earlier generations focus on film or television. Koulikov (2005) in his study of hyperreality and simulation in anime, makes...

as a teacher, is to free his students from the cave and metaphorically drag them into the sunlight. The selection from Phaedo reco...

of souls (Frost 104). It is possible that Plato was attempting to use popular belief to promote the teaching of more profound trut...

is not that everyone just does what they think is right or what society tells them is right, but they sense that something good co...

when it is expressed as a love of virtue, and justice when it is considered as one of many virtues. For Hobbes, self-interest "ta...

what is not. Descartes method of systematic doubt is to "reject as if absolutely false anything as to which I could imagine t...