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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...

Dialogue Format of Plato

In five pages this report discusses Plato's dialogues in terms of how Socrates regarded his philosophical role and how he was pres...

Jacques-Louis David: “The Death of Socrates”

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

Achilles and Socrates

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

Happiness According to Plato

in fact more beneficial than justice and that the role of a good leader is to recognize when it is necessary to take action that a...

The Republic of Plato and Justice

In five pages justice is defined by Adeimentus, Glaucon, and Thrasymachus and then a response is offered by Socrates in The Republ...

Justice According to Socrates and Thrasymachus

but never the subjects. The result is that injustice lords it over those who are truly simple and truly just. Because the unjust...

An Examination of the Literary Criticism Launched Against Athenian Politics

This ten page paper explores the criticism Greek writers and philosophers such as Euripedes, Socrates, and Aeschylus had for the A...

Authority and Its Historical Challenges

This five pages this paper examines how authority was challenged by Socrates, Antigone, and Jesus Christ and how each suffered tra...

Why Socrates 'Did' Philosophy According to J.S. Mill

In four pages John Stuart Mill's views on why philosophy was 'done' by Socrates are examined in a consideration of the ancient Gre...

Philosophical Views on Human Sexuality

In six pages the philosophical perspectives of Epicurus and Socrates among others are applied to a human sexuality interpretation....

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...

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 ...

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...

Civil Disobedience and Socrates

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Crito, Euthyphro, and Socrates

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

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...

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...

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...

A Philosophy Basic Overview

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

Book I of Republic by Plato and Justice

In 6 pages this paper critically analyzes Socrates argument regarding justice in this text and the use of logical deduction by Pla...