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Belief in the Gods and Plato's Practice of Open Inquiry

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...

Phaedo, Socrates and Immortality

the harp is broken the music stops; if the human dies, doesnt the soul also vanish? (Plato). It is to answer these concerns and ar...

Socrates and Plato on Wisdom

because it is supposed to produce truth in the end. The essence of this method is a process that usually begins with Socrates ask...

'Good Life' According to Socrates

interaction with the world, ourselves, and others. Our perceptual capacities are not fixed; they are not static or one-dimensiona...

Serving the Gods According to Socrates

beings. Euthyphro would of course agree with that sentiment and oppose Socrates on this matter. The gods of course are powerful. W...

Thomas Aquinas and Plato on Justice

virtue, i.e., justice, but it is also included under Aquinas discussion of love, specifically under love of ones neighbor, for Go...

Socrates and Immanuel Kant on Lying

was that all humans are born with an inherent worth which he labeled human dignity (Mazur, 1993). He further felt that human dign...

Tacit Consent According to Socrates

the gods and sensible men, that you must worship it" (Plato, 51a). Therefore, Socrates clearly and evidently reveres the s...

Socrates and Odysseus

is less important than the conversation which takes place, and since the two individuals are from periods in Greek history several...

Utilitarianism and John Stuart Mill

this chapter, the highest normative principle involves the idea that "actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happ...

Matthew Fox and Socrates

purposes, that they are omnipresent, and that they give signs to men of all that concerns them (X Memorabilia I, I, 19) (Beck ppg...

A Philosophy Basic Overview

In this paper consisting of twenty pages questions regarding such influential philosophers as Robert Nozick, Mary Daly, the Stoics...

Truth and Piety in Euthyphro by Plato

In five pages this paper discusses the text's featured conversation between Socrates and Euthyphro as it pertains to piety and tru...

Meno and Socrates in Meno by Plato

In five pages this paper examines the philosophical questions resulting from the dialogue between Meno and Socrates as presented i...

Gorgias by Plato, Justice and 'the Good Life'

In five pages this paper examines the dialogue between Socrates and Callicles regarding the arguments pertaining to happiness purs...

Beauty and Love According to Socrates as Represented in Symposium by Plato

In four pages this paper examines how beauty and love were conceptualized by Socrates as portrayed in Symposium by Plato through i...

5 Dialogues of Plato and Human Nature

It is important for to understand that there exist a great many philosophies by which people live their lives. These philosophies...

Afterlife and Socrates

In seven pages this paper examines the religious views of Socrates as described by Plato in Apology with the focus being upon hi...

Greek Style of Justice in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries

say that a given society defines its own justice. Correspondingly another society, might have a slightly different version. Anaxi...

Crito, Euthyphro, and Socrates

In eight pages this report examines Socrates from several perspectives including his discussion of issues with Crito and Euthyphro...

Similarities and Differences Between Ideology and Religion

In five pages this paper discusses ideology and religion in a consideration of similarities and differences with Karl Marx and Soc...

Guilt or Innocence of Socrates

In six pages this paper assesses whether or not Socrates was innocent or guilty of the crimes alleged by his accusers. Five sourc...

Dialogue Between Gorgias and Socrates

In six pages this paper examines Plato's Gorgias which describes a philosophical dialogue between the title character and Socrates...

Love According to Socrates

In five pages this paper considers how Socrates may have delivered a speech regarding love with references made to Symposium by ...

Civil Disobedience and Socrates

In five pages this paper examines the justifiability of civil disobedience in a consideration of several philosophers and theori...

Crito's Argument That Socrates Should Escape from Prison

In five pages this paper considers why Crito believes Socrates should attempt a prison escape instead of subject himself to capita...

Man of All Seaons/Robert Bolt

This essay discusses Robert Bolt's play that relates the life of Thomas More, A Man For All Seasons. The writer compares More's he...

Virtue and Meno by Plato

In six pages this paper discusses virtue and whether or not it is possible to teach in a consideration of the dialogue between Men...

Paradox of Learning in Plato' Meno

For Socrates, and consequently Plato, the great business of life was conversation. He sought out everyone, and seizing upon some e...

Philosophers on the Death Penalty

In ten pages capital punishment is examined in terms of ethical acceptability with an attempt to arrive at a consensus through a c...