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Essays 241 - 270
In nine pages this paper discusses how man's best life can be best pursued, concepts of good and evil, and divine knowledge accord...
In seven pages this paper discuses Socrates' philosophy in an overview that includes his soul concept, what constitutes 'true' kno...
In five pages this paper examines Pythagoras' widespread influence that includes the Western scientific concept, mysticism, number...
In five pages this report considers how Plato defines piety in this early dialogue. There are no other sources listed....
looked at in the context of history and of the study of philosophy. II. Metaphysics Metaphysics is an abstract part of philos...
In six pages The Book of Job from the Old Testament, Antigone by Sophocles, Crito and Apology by Plato, and The Clouds by Aristoph...
of human thinking and an awareness of what constitutes the basics of human nature. Their lessons and attitudes are still relevant ...
In five pages this paper examines concepts featured in 'Myth of the Cave' and The Apology and also considers 'The Death of Ivan Il...
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...
of science there are two branches which are epistemology and metaphysics (Honderich, 1995). Science makes up an important part of ...
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...
Aristotles concrete, scientific theories are more relevant than Platos deductive and abstract ideology. Aristotle believed...
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...
thought that the Theory of Forms was useless when it came to explaining the material world "because the connection between the two...
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...
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...
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...
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...
could be products of society, but never the causes, or it would alter the objectivity of sociology as a science (Hamilton, 1995). ...
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...
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...
in order to insure passage to the underworld. The Underworld in this mythology was not a particularly happy place; it was a gloomy...