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Essays 271 - 300
possible fat man in that doorway; and again, the possible bald man in that doorway. Are they the same possible men, or two possibl...
of his text The Republic, Plato presents one of Western civilizations most accurate conceptualizations of the tremendous influence...
truly understand Gods word: "I ask Thee, my God: pardon my sins, and as Thou didst grant to Thy servant to speak those words, gran...
for the student of psychology to develop a well-rounded and complete understanding of the discipline, it is necessary to study bot...
unison (Rosen, 2005). Plato (1996) writes: "Is not the community of pleasure and pain the tie that binds? The sharing, to the grea...
for which they are talented. Here, it is thought that the rulers who are willing to rule, who go into the cave, who are vocal, are...
fundamental importance in the Republic of the metaphor of descent and its connection to the two great themes of birth and death, a...
most part. He was clearly setting himself up as some sort of martyr or individual who would ultimately bring about change to the s...
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...
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...
the lyrics in modern songs, and in essence, the poets of today are Eminem and Jay Zee and Beyonce. Lyrics to emanate from these ar...
people must strive for a knowledge that only comes from being true to ones own choice. According to Plato, men and women both hav...
should also be noted that persuasion is not synonymous with dogmatism: the speaker must acknowledge that opposing viewpoints exist...
n.d.). Plato did talk about God, in Timaeus, Plato said that if God made the world as perfect then the soul must be perfect, also ...
in order to be just. Many are familiar with the tales of Sodom and Gomorrah from the bible. They understand that many cities had ...
what was passing in the world around them, to the realm of re-presentative intellect. An external phenomenon is thus translated i...
and with that has come an interest in spirituality itself, outside of any religious context. It is this search for a truth that m...
noble. Socrates was doing the right thing. Today, as people wrestle with unjust rules and laws, there are some who simply follow ...
like knowledge itself, is secure. Indeed, according to Plato correct opinion is a guide to knowledge. To be correct, opinions th...
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...
can one know what is beautiful or what is ugly? There must be some sort of shared experience. Plato uses a cave allegory--somethi...
like Hades and the underworld; Tiresias the blind seer; and other references to death and dying (Plato). They decide they have to...
(Washington State University, 2004). Plato asserts that our perceptions are essentially "shadows" of real objects. In ot...
This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...
soul, as imaged by Plato, is made up of the qualities of reason, spirit and desire or appetite (Honderich, et al, 1995). The "reas...
In seven pages the cave allegory featured in Plato's Republic is applied to contemporary U.S. political leadership. Four sources ...
In a paper that consists of eight pages Plato's interpretation of the soul and its parts are explored along with a discussion of t...