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citizen was guaranteed the right to be heard in an Athenian court. Since the government structure was founded on the principle th...
adversely influencing the minds of young boys. Augustines autobiographical Confessions ponders the external social threats of sex...
sense of the word. The name of the dialogue derives from the Greek word "apologia," which literally translated means defense, or a...
of criminals and Christians. He argues it is the name that is hated, but all sects and philosophies carry the name of their origin...
around, arousing them and persuading them. He illustrates how people are often irritated by him because they feel they have been r...
manifestation that Gorgias was forever attempting to read between the lines of what Socrates had to say, perpetually wondering if ...
childhood, during his early life, Socrates was a sculptor, following in the footsteps of his father, Sophroniscus (Wikpedia, 2003)...
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...
Introduction The issues surrounding abortion are complex to say the least. People are polarized on the issue...
this chapter, the highest normative principle involves the idea that "actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happ...
also wrote that one could live justly only if they lived in a just society (Beck, n.d.). Plato had a number of caveats about a jus...
interlocutor" which is consistent with the importance he places on self-knowledge as a way to attain good and happiness. Callicles...
Although biblical, the story provides a warning in that perhaps a little knowledge can be harmful. Another point of view is that k...
They are, instead, robot-like in that they do what they are told and do not question the validity of the teachings. Instead, peopl...
background, the points which Gray (2001) makes are surprising to say the least. Gray (2001) sees the war we as a society are wagi...
a person even know if those opinions are really yours or the opinions of others which you have adopted as your own without testing...
is less important than the conversation which takes place, and since the two individuals are from periods in Greek history several...
the gods and sensible men, that you must worship it" (Plato, 51a). Therefore, Socrates clearly and evidently reveres the s...
perception is that which we, as humans, have been trained to discern as a species, inasmuch as the certain quality of perception r...
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 ...
distance. In some way one can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees ...
cast them as slaves of the elite. This action of stripping an individuals inherent rights as a human being can be nothing other t...
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...
quickly taking over the world, leaving no room for anything else" (Williams, Dustin and McKenney, 2004). In his view, we were leav...
very powerful and just individual, putting aside the fact she was a woman. While this speaks of men, and fighting for justice, one...
Aristotles concrete, scientific theories are more relevant than Platos deductive and abstract ideology. Aristotle believed...
the amount of knowledge that anyone has very little to do with doing things that are wrong. Now, understandably, we can see wher...
no matter how insignificant or trite they may seem. However, it would seem that he believed that there were at least two types of ...
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). ...