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Plato's Apology/Capital Punishment & Academic Freedom

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...

Charles Peirce's Account Of Truth And Reality In "How To Make Our Ideas Clear"

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

The Influence of the Cave Allegory

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

Plato's "Gorgias" - Positions Of Socrates And Callicles

cast them as slaves of the elite. This action of stripping an individuals inherent rights as a human being can be nothing other t...

Value of Piety

Socrates ideas. He states that he will be Euthyphros student in these matters. Of course, it would seem that Socrates is being a b...

Hypothetical Debate Between Presidential Candidates Socrates and Henry David Thoreau

best and brightest citizens." After the candidates shake hands, the moderator presented the first topic for debate, that of taxat...

Thelma Z. Levine's From Socrates to Sartre

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...

Cinematic Portrayal of Greek Virtue and Philosophers

84). However, Socrates is willing to concede that an individual can desire an evil thing if he mistakenly first evaluates it as go...

Socrates on the Body and Soul

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...

Chuang Tzu and Socrates on State Obedience versus Self Interest

own life? Not all philosophers would agree with the path he ultimately chose. First, it is important to keep in mind that practi...

Socratic Philosophy and Plato

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, ...

Philosophy of Socrates

childhood, during his early life, Socrates was a sculptor, following in the footsteps of his father, Sophroniscus (Wikpedia, 2003)...

Understanding and Communication as Perceived by Socrates

manifestation that Gorgias was forever attempting to read between the lines of what Socrates had to say, perpetually wondering if ...

Love According to Socrates in Symposium by Plato

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....

Self Examination and the Method of Socrates

a person even know if those opinions are really yours or the opinions of others which you have adopted as your own without testing...

Evil Disease of Crime Cured in Gorgias by Plato

are afraid because ignorant, and perceive the pain and not the benefits; nor do they apprehend that a sick soul is worse than a si...

Abortion and Morality

Introduction The issues surrounding abortion are complex to say the least. People are polarized on the issue...

Socrates and Odysseus

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

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...

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...

Defense of Socrates in Plato's Apology

wiser (21a). This news confused Socrates greatly as he realized that he was not particularly wise. He, therefore, set out to find ...

Acting Justly and the Reasons for Doing So in The Republic by Plato

to be achieved. This scenario, by its very nature, assured the manifestation of orderliness and moderation rather than the less a...

A Philosopher Dialogue

guidance that gives meaning for man. Rather, as he explains, mans actions and intellectual activity seem to provide meaning. This ...

Socrates and Niccolo Machiavelli on Political Education

ground, whether that is through dialectical discourse or reason (1994). Barber claims that neither approach leaves any room for po...

Worthless 'Unexamined Life' According to Socrates

the two philosophers arose from the manifestation that Gorgias was forever attempting to read between the lines of what Socrates h...

Body and Soul According to Socrates

In five pages this essay examines the mind and soul dichotomy as conceptualized by Socrates and represented by Plato in Apology an...

Apology by Plato and Innocence

fact that they were poets made them think that they had a perfect understanding of all other subjects, of which they were totally ...

The Republic and the Justice of Cephalus

Justice is the idea of focus in this paper that looks at The Republic. The dialog between Cephalus and Socrates is discussed in de...

Changing Times and Unchanging Philosophical Themes

youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...