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Essays 241 - 270
as the Socratic dialogue that in many ways can be compared to todays constructivist approach to education in which he "drew forth ...
teaching, in which he pretended not to know the answers to questions, so that students would come to understanding on their own. ...
and is not open to the charge of flattery" (Plato). While Socrates then discusses the love of youth, possibly referring to having ...
First, Socrates, who is obviously the focus of the painting, is sitting up, still teaching as shown by his raised left hand. Hes m...
student sees in relationship to what the image can present: "but of the ideas which they resemble; not of the figures which they d...
ghost, a phantom-true, but no real breath of life" (23.122-23). This minimal survival apparently depends on the appropriate funera...
if they were not a part of society then it would be obvious that God did not exist. In relationship to what other philosophers fro...
The writer discusses the moral and ethical positions of several philosophers including Ayer, Smith, Mackie, Socrates and Glaucon. ...
of fire (The New York Times, 2008). He lived during the late fifth century BC (The New York Times, 2008). The Eleatic school for i...
millennia worth of philosophical comprehension of mans existence. For those who depend upon traditional practice to shepherd them...
wish, they have other freedoms that are perhaps not as obvious. Brave New World supports the hedonistic view. That is, Huxley (199...
always do the good" and, therefore, is someone goes astray, it is because they lack the knowledge of how to "act rightly" (Shiraev...
Brian Vickers portrays Plato as an intellectual Odysseus, stealthily stealing the rhetorical arsenal of the sophists and using it ...
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, ...
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...
Socrates ideas. He states that he will be Euthyphros student in these matters. Of course, it would seem that Socrates is being a b...
best and brightest citizens." After the candidates shake hands, the moderator presented the first topic for debate, that of taxat...
84). However, Socrates is willing to concede that an individual can desire an evil thing if he mistakenly first evaluates it as go...
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...
for Plato and are directly related to that capacity of understanding. Physical things of the world must, of necessity, have bodily...
youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...
classes in the State severally did their own business; and also thought to be temperate and valiant and wise by reason of certain ...
support for the notion that people must obey the laws of the place in which they are born. How is this accomplished? Aristotle d...
to shake off these social controls and become the master rather than the slave. This, he argues, is the true justice of nature: la...
(2002) argument is based on his experiences as first a federal prosecutor, then a trial judge, and finally a California Superior C...
a person even know if those opinions are really yours or the opinions of others which you have adopted as your own without testing...
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...
They are, instead, robot-like in that they do what they are told and do not question the validity of the teachings. Instead, peopl...