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

higher than those with iron. Plato argued that this deception was necessary in order to maintain a stable society, and we ca...

a democracy. Plato contended that it would be impossible within a democracy to have the kind of harmony and societal unit...

Republic, 2002). Therefore, according to this theory, knowledge of anything and understanding of anything comes from examination ...

view is that the appetite for wisdom is the most noble of the possible forces that can drive humanity, and as such, the one which ...

be quantified. That is, ones life may be the truth, but it cannot be articulated as the truth. Still, there had been much debate b...

Lysias topic is love, which in the ancient Greek world referred to the love of a man for another man. Homosexuality was practiced...

can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees it as symbolic of humans o...

deep down, but on the surface they are essentially chained and shackled. They are in the dark about a lot of things because they c...

he make it eternal anyway? Many people think of the universe as something that was eternal in the first place, irrespective of wha...

What comes out of a courtroom is not necessarily truth, but which side argues best. The Sophists prided themselves on the use of p...

that the story being told is one that has been re-told so often that it is little more than hearsay, and it is from this "story of...

is only preserved as a term of reproach" (Plato). He illustrates how the figures of men and women and the third figure were round ...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

(Washington State University, 2004). Plato asserts that our perceptions are essentially "shadows" of real objects. In ot...

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 ...

could be products of society, but never the causes, or it would alter the objectivity of sociology as a science (Hamilton, 1995). ...

in order to insure passage to the underworld. The Underworld in this mythology was not a particularly happy place; it was a gloomy...

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...

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

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

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

for the student of psychology to develop a well-rounded and complete understanding of the discipline, it is necessary to study bot...

wish, they have other freedoms that are perhaps not as obvious. Brave New World supports the hedonistic view. That is, Huxley (199...