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Essays 241 - 270
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...
believe. Deweys central thesis is rather controversial, but is seemingly valid, and has withstood the test of time. Indeed, Deweys...
In three pages gender concepts are discussed in this consideration of how Plato regarded equality for women. Two sources are cite...
higher than those with iron. Plato argued that this deception was necessary in order to maintain a stable society, and we ca...
who will eventually hold office and decide what to pursue in respect to issues like abortion, stem cell research and capital punis...
a democracy. Plato contended that it would be impossible within a democracy to have the kind of harmony and societal unit...
he make it eternal anyway? Many people think of the universe as something that was eternal in the first place, irrespective of wha...
Lysias topic is love, which in the ancient Greek world referred to the love of a man for another man. Homosexuality was practiced...
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...
Aristotles concrete, scientific theories are more relevant than Platos deductive and abstract ideology. Aristotle believed...
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...
of science there are two branches which are epistemology and metaphysics (Honderich, 1995). Science makes up an important part of ...
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...
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...
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...
the preexistence of the soul, and the separate existence of forms work together or not? Thats a lot of questions to tackle, and to...
knew nothing and was far from wise, he sets upon a course of action to find someone wiser than himself to offer to the Oracle as r...
like knowledge itself, is secure. Indeed, according to Plato correct opinion is a guide to knowledge. To be correct, opinions th...
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...
thought that the Theory of Forms was useless when it came to explaining the material world "because the connection between the two...
has many flaws. There is question as to whether or not the method really gets to the truth at all. In fact, one has to wonder whet...
most part. He was clearly setting himself up as some sort of martyr or individual who would ultimately bring about change to the s...
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...