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Essays 271 - 300
This paper consists of four pages and evaluates the guilty verdict Socrates received in terms of whether or not it represented the...
In eight pages this paper analyzes how Plato's methods as they involve truth are considered in an examination of this trio of dial...
and with that has come an interest in spirituality itself, outside of any religious context. It is this search for a truth that m...
can one know what is beautiful or what is ugly? There must be some sort of shared experience. Plato uses a cave allegory--somethi...
In a type of author/character debate, Plato explores the premises of his theory by having Socrates debate them. Plato theorized ...
soul, as imaged by Plato, is made up of the qualities of reason, spirit and desire or appetite (Honderich, et al, 1995). The "reas...
in order to be just. Many are familiar with the tales of Sodom and Gomorrah from the bible. They understand that many cities had ...
a weapon to the hands of a madman is obviously unjust. Taylor (2003) comments on how this refutation of Cephalus position demonstr...
humans cannot readily draw on the human collective conscious, or the knowledge that exists in the universe, they had a glimpse of ...
n.d.). Plato did talk about God, in Timaeus, Plato said that if God made the world as perfect then the soul must be perfect, also ...
In a paper that consists of eight pages Plato's interpretation of the soul and its parts are explored along with a discussion of t...
In seven pages the cave allegory featured in Plato's Republic is applied to contemporary U.S. political leadership. Four sources ...
This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...
noble. Socrates was doing the right thing. Today, as people wrestle with unjust rules and laws, there are some who simply follow ...
off than those who remain in the cave. Before delving into an analysis, it pays to explore the allegory as laid out by Plato. Wh...
the physical in a dramatic and practical way. While Aristotle saw the heart as just a physical organ, he had an idea that seemed t...
what was passing in the world around them, to the realm of re-presentative intellect. An external phenomenon is thus translated i...
like Hades and the underworld; Tiresias the blind seer; and other references to death and dying (Plato). They decide they have to...
he had dragged him out into the light of the sun" he would be distressed. For Socrates, the world above ground represents the othe...
much like ourselves. As this suggests, Socrates means to make it clear that this allegory has relevance to the realities of everyd...
concepts that are far beyond his level of comprehension, only to ultimately be able to process the information. To reach true m...
on this subject might want to explore various opinions on democracy and society. Socrates claimed that democracy--because it is ...
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...
of quickness and penetration, piercing easily below the clumsy platitudes of Thrasymachus to the real difficulty; he turns out to ...
yet does not lose faith in the just and true" (Plato Jowett Translation Characters). In this we see that Plato appears to be indic...
change and that personality stays the same. In order to comprehend why this is not the case, and understand the thesis which also ...
would be clearly dependent upon the eye of the beholder. Therefore, the conclusions were not judgments, per se, but were response...
know what they, themselves, look like. One day, one of the people breaks free from the chains and makes it back to the outside o...
then, accompanied by proof, it can therefore be called knowledge. He seems to move in circles a bit with this assertion, in that ...
was that they were certain and immutable. Also, knowledge must have as its objective that which is genuinely real as compared to t...