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the soul. In understanding the influence the pre-Socratics had, it is beneficial to consider some of the major questions and the ...
In five pages this paper examines Socrates' dialogue with Thrasymachus and considers his concept of justice as described in Plato'...
In three pages this paper discusses Plato's Phaedo in terms of the mechanistic mind model and Socrates' arguments designed against...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares Socrates' teachings with those of Job. Three sources are cited in the bibliograph...
In five pages this report considers Socrates' belief that an individual's foremost responsibility is to the state. There are no o...
In five pages this report examines whether or not the world would be a better place if people followed Socrates' philosophical exa...
In five pages this paper considers the purpose of Socrates' arguments as featured in three of Plato's dialogues. There are no oth...
In five pages this paper examines how Plato described Socrates' trial and death in his dialogues Phaedo, Crito, Apology, and Euthy...
In five pages this paper discusses Socrates' argument fallacies as they are portrayed in Crito by Plato. There are no other sourc...
as its model. Things are intellectually and emotionally captured by the understanding, not by the senses. The "Forms" of Things ...
In three pages this paper discusses how the Athenians made class distinctions in a consideration of Socrates' noble myth depicted ...
means. The function of justice is to improve human nature, which is inherently constructive. Therefore, at a minimum, justice i...
of life, Socrates contends that reason is as well. Socrates considers the difference between those things that can be understood ...
In eight pages this paper examines the contemporary government relevance of Socrates' views as portrayed in The Republic by Plato....
leg only" (Plato). If this were true, if there were only one process in regards to life-death, then everything would ultimately co...
In five pages this paper discusses how Socrates' principles are presented in Plato's Protagoras and then provides a comparison wit...
In six pages this paper contrasts and compares these differing views on Socrates' trial for political subversion and execution. T...
offer a profusion of pleasures... injustice pays better than justice" (364b). Next, Socrates appeared to shift gears and direct t...
charges of impiety and corruption of youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens ("Socrates," 2003). While this ph...
(4e). Intrigued by this conclusion, Socrates implores Euthyphro to share with him his definition of piety, distinguishing betwee...
this pint he is, in essence, pleading for his life and states, "I dare say that you may feel irritated at being suddenly awakened ...
with sickness, or the pilot who helps friends against "the perils of the sea" (Plato Book I). He then inquires into "what sort of ...
threatening. Instead of turning the anger they felt inward, they unleashed their fury outward onto Socrates, a convenient scapego...
tone and character with the description of Xenophon, who says in the Memorabilia that Socrates might have been acquitted if in any...
In five pages this paper examines how innocence is corrupted in a literary comparison and contrast of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bo...
soul has two principal parts. The first part of this argument is that nature inevitably follows a cyclical pattern. All vegetatio...
something in Platos morality which does not really belong to Plato but is only to be met with in his philosophy, one might say in ...
The only manner by which to acquire good statesmen and lawgivers, according to Socrates testimony, is to assure their individual a...
interlocutor" which is consistent with the importance he places on self-knowledge as a way to attain good and happiness. Callicles...
new ideas. The body supplies the means by which knowledge can be attained, for it is necessary, according to Plato, for things an...