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NDEs and Religious Ministers

Near-death experiences (NDE) have been reported since ancient times. Even Plato reported one. In recent decades, there have been t...

Plato and Singer

life fulfillment and that a disabled individual should be allowed to die because their quality of life will not allow them to find...

Methodic Doubt of Rene Descartes

the circumstance. In other words, if something can go wrong with it, that sense is considered inconsequential to the final outcome...

Socrates' Thoughts and Influence

Socrates frequently alluded was the basis for his debates with Gorgias, contending that the degree of abstraction pursued by thoug...

Comparison of the Citizens' Rights Views of Plato and Martin Luther King Jr.

sported the slogan "Challenge Authority." To many, it had little meaning. That is because the majority of people are sheep. They d...

Forms and Recollection in Phaedo by Plato

leg only" (Plato). If this were true, if there were only one process in regards to life-death, then everything would ultimately co...

Knowledge, Forms, and Plato

had to be obtained by directing the students mind toward the discovery of what is real and important, then allowing them to deduce...

Belief and Knowledge According to Plato

of innate knowledge, he was adamant that nothing could be learned except through experience and sensory input: "How comes [the mi...

Natural Law and How It Developed

also wrote that one could live justly only if they lived in a just society (Beck, n.d.). Plato had a number of caveats about a jus...

Happiness and Virtue According to Aristotle and Plato

and ones existence. To reach true happiness, Plato contended that people must strive for a contentment that only comes from being...

Aristotle and Plato on Knowledge

subject of forms. While Plato held a dual realms theory, Aristotle saw form and matter as existing in the same realm. In discussi...

Plato and John Stuart Mill on Social Freedom

interprets the ideal of freedom and to what extent they live in their own psychological prisons. Social freedom means that one wil...

Public Administration Evolution

be studied scientifically in order to derive the most rational, economic and efficient means of administering policy. The form is...

Looking at Empiricism and Rationalism

also believed in one realm. Spinoza writes: "By God, I mean a Being absolutely infinite -- that is, a substance consisting in inf...

Piety, the Bible, Sophocles, and Plato

surely bless you and make your descendant as numerous as the stars in the sky." Because Abraham never questioned a divine commandm...

The Myth of Er and Scipio's Dream as They Relate to American Society

not go to reincarnation necessarily, but rather to the idea that death does not end life. On the other hand, New Ageism, Buddhism,...

Abortion and Morality

Introduction The issues surrounding abortion are complex to say the least. People are polarized on the issue...

Modern Leadership and Classic Political Theory

as well as the people. When one views the former President of the United States, Bill Clinton, for example, one hardly thinks ab...

Analyzing Crito, Euthyphro, and Apology by Plato

around, arousing them and persuading them. He illustrates how people are often irritated by him because they feel they have been r...

Dialogues of Plato and Use of Narrative

the more metaphysical idea that the world of the present is known as the physical world that one is able to perceive using the sen...

Knowledge, Sensation, Plato and Rene Descartes

also supported what was known as the Theory of Ideas, which mainly stated that archetypal ideas (which rest in the universal)(Plan...

Ancient Philosophers on Democracy

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

The Caylee Anthony Case

that was filed did not meet the criteria to dismiss such heinous a charge ("Lawyers Request To Dismiss Moms Charges Denied" ). The...

The Cave and The Divided Line

student sees in relationship to what the image can present: "but of the ideas which they resemble; not of the figures which they d...

Pre-Socratic Philosophers as Compared with Later Thinkers

of fire (The New York Times, 2008). He lived during the late fifth century BC (The New York Times, 2008). The Eleatic school for i...

If Ralph Had Provided Better Government Advice, Would Events Have Been Different in Lord of the Flies by William Golding?

This paper examines if Niccolo Machiavelli or Plato would have provided Ralph with better advice on governing the island in this a...

Defense Management Ethics and Classic Philosophy

In five pages the perceptions of classical philosophers Machiavelli, Plato, and Aristotle are applied to defense management's ethi...

The Role of Confucian Reflection in Early Poetry

tragedy" (Cai, 1999, p. 317). For Confucius, the focus was much narrower: when he considered poetry, he was thinking of the Book o...

Philosophy and Metaphysics

human nature is bound by the weakness of mans character? In short, Platos (1979) freed prisoner is himself, the cave reflects the...

Educational Process, Subject Matter, and Experience According to John Dewey and Plato

qualities in the face of conflict or challenge. "Deliberate effort and the taking of thoughtful pains are required...Education, a...