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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 ...
virtue, i.e., justice, but it is also included under Aquinas discussion of love, specifically under love of ones neighbor, for Go...
was that all humans are born with an inherent worth which he labeled human dignity (Mazur, 1993). He further felt that human dign...
David: So you can be popular? Allen: Yeah. David: Why do you want to be popular Allen? I know everyone wants to be popular in h...
84). However, Socrates is willing to concede that an individual can desire an evil thing if he mistakenly first evaluates it as go...
Socrates ideas. He states that he will be Euthyphros student in these matters. Of course, it would seem that Socrates is being a b...
the soul. What the mind or soul once knew is raised to present awareness by a process of recollection aided by the technique of di...
that love is beautiful and love is a god by showing them the true nature of love and the use love can be to humankind....
own life? Not all philosophers would agree with the path he ultimately chose. First, it is important to keep in mind that practi...
time. And, he was not content to attempt to dispel theories of old, but was also one to attempt the disruption of more modern appr...
best and brightest citizens." After the candidates shake hands, the moderator presented the first topic for debate, that of taxat...
is good (Frost 84). For Socrates, "a life which is always inquiring and trying to discover what is good is the best kind of life, ...
Brian Vickers portrays Plato as an intellectual Odysseus, stealthily stealing the rhetorical arsenal of the sophists and using it ...
As in most of his essays, Freud (1952), in Civilization and its Discontents, wrestles with human nature and why there is such a ch...
teaching, in which he pretended not to know the answers to questions, so that students would come to understanding on their own. ...
In ten pages various philosophical methods are applied to the Monica Lewinsky scandal in terms of what might offer the best instru...
In five pages this paper examines the philosophies of Rand, Mills, Kant, Aristotle, and Socrates in a consideration whether or not...
fact that they were poets made them think that they had a perfect understanding of all other subjects, of which they were totally ...
Justice is the idea of focus in this paper that looks at The Republic. The dialog between Cephalus and Socrates is discussed in de...
the two philosophers arose from the manifestation that Gorgias was forever attempting to read between the lines of what Socrates h...
In five pages this essay examines the mind and soul dichotomy as conceptualized by Socrates and represented by Plato in Apology an...
ethical theory that supports killing off twice as many people to save half as many because you like them better. That is unethica...
individuality and happiness are intrinsically related, as the achievement of personal happiness is associated with obtaining the i...
Kamath (2007) goes through all the possible outcomes regarding this dilemma. He explains that if the operation goes forth, there a...
In ten pages capital punishment is examined in terms of ethical acceptability with an attempt to arrive at a consensus through a c...
always do the good" and, therefore, is someone goes astray, it is because they lack the knowledge of how to "act rightly" (Shiraev...
In six pages Socrates arguments, counterarguments and the great philosopher's defense techniques are examined. Four sources are c...