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Essays 571 - 600
or reflections of a separate world of independently existing, eternal, and unchanging entities called "forms" or "ideas." Ordinary...
In seven pages the process of making ethical decisions is discussed in terms of the definitions provided in The Holy Bible and The...
Since approximately 700 B. C., astronomy had a great deal to do with keeping time (PG). Natural periods of time were generated th...
In ten pages The Republic is examined in a consideration of how Plato regarded women's status and the issue of equality. There ar...
In six pages this report discusses how Plato uses rhetoric persuasively in his 'Allegory of the Cave' featured in The Republic. T...
In five pages this paper examines art as it was critiqued by Plato in The Republic. There are no other sources cited....
In five pages this paper examines Plato and de Tocqueville's views regarding democracy in a contrast and comparison of what democr...
which sight resides is the sun? No. Yet of all the organs of sense the eye is the most like the sun? By far the most like" (204)...
he did not know the true cause of an action he would readily admit to not knowing. This should not be mistaken however for a will...
his argument to the priestess who taught him mysteries in his youth, Diotima of Mantinea. Attributing his words to Diotima, Socrat...
wine and pleasure, and rejecting the cold and structured nature of Apollonian society. For them, to be human is to follow ones bas...
they know was agreed upon in full assembly; and should it be decided that this is not so, the poor have discovered a hundred excus...
societys goods (Platos Political Theory, 2002). They were satisfied with their lives and held back from being passionate natured ...
offer a profusion of pleasures... injustice pays better than justice" (364b). Next, Socrates appeared to shift gears and direct t...
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...
charges of impiety and corruption of youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens ("Socrates," 2003). While this ph...
believe. Deweys central thesis is rather controversial, but is seemingly valid, and has withstood the test of time. Indeed, Deweys...
the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...
leg only" (Plato). If this were true, if there were only one process in regards to life-death, then everything would ultimately co...
the more metaphysical idea that the world of the present is known as the physical world that one is able to perceive using the sen...
is only preserved as a term of reproach" (Plato). He illustrates how the figures of men and women and the third figure were round ...
life fulfillment and that a disabled individual should be allowed to die because their quality of life will not allow them to find...
the circumstance. In other words, if something can go wrong with it, that sense is considered inconsequential to the final outcome...
Socrates frequently alluded was the basis for his debates with Gorgias, contending that the degree of abstraction pursued by thoug...
Yet is it just to have such a rule in place? Furthermore is a just for a professional football team to be fined, simply because th...
had to be obtained by directing the students mind toward the discovery of what is real and important, then allowing them to deduce...
the best" (the literal definition of aristocracy) was to be achieved. This scenario, by its very nature, assured the manifestatio...
this pint he is, in essence, pleading for his life and states, "I dare say that you may feel irritated at being suddenly awakened ...
and ones existence. To reach true happiness, Plato contended that people must strive for a contentment that only comes from being...
that the story being told is one that has been re-told so often that it is little more than hearsay, and it is from this "story of...