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the foot of power!/Nothing care I for Zeus" (Aeschylus). In other words, Prometheus will not succumb to tyranny and a power that r...

This essay focuses on Plato's use of dialogue in his "Apology" and "Crito," and Augustine's use of the monologue in his "Confessio...

noble. Socrates was doing the right thing. Today, as people wrestle with unjust rules and laws, there are some who simply follow ...

In a type of author/character debate, Plato explores the premises of his theory by having Socrates debate them. Plato theorized ...

sported the slogan "Challenge Authority." To many, it had little meaning. That is because the majority of people are sheep. They d...

pleas, Socrates will not hear of any escape plans. He points out that, even though the sentence was unjust, it was perfectly legal...

texts The Republic and Crito, Plato learned his lessons well. In both works, Plato theorizes what justice is through deductive re...

In six pages The Book of Job from the Old Testament, Antigone by Sophocles, Crito and Apology by Plato, and The Clouds by Aristoph...

In five pages this paper presents a summary of the Crito dialogue by Plato. Three other sources are cited in the bibliography....

Crito by Plato is the subject of this paper, which takes the form of an overview of what the author's characters concluded. This p...

In five pages this report considers how Plato defines piety in this early dialogue. There are no other sources listed....

In eight pages this paper analyzes how Plato's methods as they involve truth are considered in an examination of this trio of dial...

In nine pages this paper considers Plato's views regarding the soul's immortality as featured in three of his dialogues. There ar...

This paper addresses the nature of morality as portrayed in these three works. The author compares and contrasts how good, evil, ...

are the destroyer; and are doing what only a miserable slave would do, running away and turning your back upon the compacts and ag...

in a different time and place and almost seems like a fairy tale. Yet, if one were to consider that Socrates was a part of a cultu...

and is not open to the charge of flattery" (Plato). While Socrates then discusses the love of youth, possibly referring to having ...

could be products of society, but never the causes, or it would alter the objectivity of sociology as a science (Hamilton, 1995). ...

First, Socrates, who is obviously the focus of the painting, is sitting up, still teaching as shown by his raised left hand. Hes m...

ghost, a phantom-true, but no real breath of life" (23.122-23). This minimal survival apparently depends on the appropriate funera...

student sees in relationship to what the image can present: "but of the ideas which they resemble; not of the figures which they d...

very powerful and just individual, putting aside the fact she was a woman. While this speaks of men, and fighting for justice, one...

quickly taking over the world, leaving no room for anything else" (Williams, Dustin and McKenney, 2004). In his view, we were leav...

Aristotles concrete, scientific theories are more relevant than Platos deductive and abstract ideology. Aristotle believed...

why so many people had to suffer. No matter the cause, the gods were not looked on with the reverence they had once enjoyed, and t...

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...

pundits or the mainstream media happen to be handing out at the moment. This is a process that rekindles a "child-like--but by no ...

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...

perception is that which we, as humans, have been trained to discern as a species, inasmuch as the certain quality of perception r...

distance. In some way one can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees ...