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Essays 1501 - 1530
in violation of the law and acknowledged that he should be punished accordingly. His "apology" was not a request for forgiveness,...
In eight pages this research paper examines reason as practically used by Socrates during his last days in his Crito dialogue. Fo...
In three pages this paper discusses how Socrates can be studied by reading the dialogues of his most famous student. There are no...
Plato demonstrates Socratess reason for remaining imprisoned even though he had opportunity to escape and the Phaedo addresses phi...
In five pages this paper examines Socrates' arguments regarding capital punishment and the sophist foundation that cements them....
In five pages this paper analyzes truth in these works in a consideration of the axiological, ontological, and epistemological arg...
In five pages these philosophers' views on the physical elements of fire, water, earth, and air are contrasted and compared. Five...
In seven pages these works are compared in reveal the three ways in which the Christian author of the 20th century may have been i...
In five pages this argumentative essay employs these philosophical writings in support of the notion that the worst type of govern...
of the United States. Without the philosophies of those that lived in the centuries prior to the U.S. Declaration of Independence...
influential thinkers of the ancient age. Despite their obvious inter-related lives, they still had significantly differing opinio...
here, but Platos position that it is necessary to experience a thing in order to have knowledge of it informs the reading of The R...
being" (Burnham, 2001). In order for our universe to have taken on the form that it has, it has been necessary, according t...
Rule, was developed as a handbook for new monks entering his order. There are a number of chapters in the rule, most of which pert...
text in which he is painstakingly honest, demonstrates that his spiritual path was not easy. It is clear from the beginning that t...
when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." And, for 20th century Catholic theologian Josef Pieper (1904-97), Gods role in...
soul has two principal parts. The first part of this argument is that nature inevitably follows a cyclical pattern. All vegetatio...
that can be grasped with the human mind, but not with human senses (Gill, 1996,p. 1). The first part of the Parmenides, Plato has...
prisoners there is a raised way; and you will see, if you look, a low wall built along the way, like the screen which marionette p...
Conceptions of Virtue). Furthermore, it was Plato who argued that love was the essential ingredient in the good life because love...
sense of the word. The name of the dialogue derives from the Greek word "apologia," which literally translated means defense, or a...
rich this indicates why he sees a democracy as a deviant state as it is argued that the poor will be the dominant influence on the...
the fomentation of rebellion, and to encourage individuals to occupy themselves with private rather than state matters. He saw it ...
idea that concepts and forms had to begin somewhere. How does one know that they are looking at a pink, or a red, or a blue item? ...
about him, without the veil of nicety associated with polite conversation. Platos Gyges discovered the ring during a supern...
(Bosomolny, 2002). He founded the Pythagorean school of philosophy, mathematics and natural sciences. His teachings soon attract...
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...
or sight) was subjected to each individuals standards of judgment. Whereas concrete facts were not changeable or subject to ones i...
Victorinus by Plato. This seems to have moved Augustine from the point of simply musing about immortality into an assurance about ...
(4e). Intrigued by this conclusion, Socrates implores Euthyphro to share with him his definition of piety, distinguishing betwee...