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Discussing Justice and War A Hypothetical Dialogue Between Hector from 'The Iliad' and Socrates from Plato's 'Republic'

you not, such as you are, get your following together and sail beyond the seas? Did you not from your a far country carry off a lo...

Comparative Analysis of Plato's Interpretation of Socrates' Trial and Death and I.F. Stone's The Trial and Death of Socrates

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares these differing views on Socrates' trial for political subversion and execution. T...

'Good Life' and the Philosophies of Albert Camus, Rene Descartes, and Plato

"I easily understand that, if some body exists, with which my mind is so conjoined and united as to be able, as it were, to consid...

Comparative Philosophical Analysis of Niccolo Machiavelli, Plato, and Aristotle

have been utilized in both historical and contemporary politics: (a) The use of diplomacy and the formation of coalitions; (b) Vio...

Types of Threats in Confessions by Augustine, Apology by Plato, and the Epic 'Beowulf'

adversely influencing the minds of young boys. Augustines autobiographical Confessions ponders the external social threats of sex...

Explaining the Difference in Human Nature Theories of Saint Augustine and Plato

important characteristics of Platos concept revolve around freedom of will and ones existence. People have the power to control t...

Piety and Socrates in Euthyphro by Plato

(4e). Intrigued by this conclusion, Socrates implores Euthyphro to share with him his definition of piety, distinguishing betwee...

Morality and Reason According to Plato, Socrates, and Sigmund Freud

inquiring and trying to discover what is good is the best kind of life, the only life worth living" (Frost, 1962, 84). As this de...

Paradox of Learning in Plato' Meno

For Socrates, and consequently Plato, the great business of life was conversation. He sought out everyone, and seizing upon some e...

Death Penalty and the Views of Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill, David Hume, and Plato

In seven pages this paper analyzes the views of these philosophers as they relate to the death penalty. Six sources are cited in ...

Philosophical Perspectives of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle

In ten pages this trio of philosophers and their philosophies are contrasted and compared. Ten sources are cited in the bibliogra...

The 'Elemental' Difference in the Views of Plato and Aristotle

In five pages these philosophers' views on the physical elements of fire, water, earth, and air are contrasted and compared. Five...

Phaedrus by Plato and The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis Compared

In seven pages these works are compared in reveal the three ways in which the Christian author of the 20th century may have been i...

Sun Significance in The Republic by Plato

of life, Socrates contends that reason is as well. Socrates considers the difference between those things that can be understood ...

Cave Allegory in The Republic by Plato II

or so it might seem. But when they return; of course, they are blinded. They may know all and they may have seen all-- but perhaps...

Things and Their True Essence in The Republic by Plato

as its model. Things are intellectually and emotionally captured by the understanding, not by the senses. The "Forms" of Things ...

Morality 'Seeming' and 'Being' in The Republic by Plato

of the perceptions of others. It is only the question of whether or not seeming and being are one in the same or whether there is...

Justice Theories of Plato in The Republic

In six pages this paper considers the self interest and justice arguments of Thrasymachus and Socrates in The Republic. One sourc...

Why Thucydides, Marx, and Plato View Democracy as the Worst Form of Government

In five pages this argumentative essay employs these philosophical writings in support of the notion that the worst type of govern...

Comparing the Philosophies of Plato, Thomas Hobbes, and Jean Paul Sartre

In seven pages this paper presents a comparative analysis of these theorists' philosophies and how each of them would critique the...

Socrates' Choice to Stay in Prison in Crito by Plato

in violation of the law and acknowledged that he should be punished accordingly. His "apology" was not a request for forgiveness,...

Philosophical Analysis of Socrates' Last Days as Represented in Crito by Plato

In eight pages this research paper examines reason as practically used by Socrates during his last days in his Crito dialogue. Fo...

Philosophy and Morality Rhetoric in Phaedrus and Gorgias by Plato

In five pages this paper analyzes truth in these works in a consideration of the axiological, ontological, and epistemological arg...

Sophism and Apology by Plato

In five pages this paper examines Socrates' arguments regarding capital punishment and the sophist foundation that cements them....

Dialogue Between Aristotle, Plato, and Socrates on Virtue and Vice in Daily Life

In five pages this paper examines a hypothetical contemporary dialogue between these 3 philosophers on how daily life features vir...

Man's Intellectual Reasoning Development an the Contributions of Aristotle, Socrates, and Plato

is often called the father of Western philosophy, reinforces a legal system that survives to this day in the United States, and in...

Aristotle, Plato, and Socrates

In eight pages this paper examines these 3 primary Greek philosophers in a contrast and comparison of their similarities and diffe...

Apology of Plato and Counterarguments

In six pages Socrates arguments, counterarguments and the great philosopher's defense techniques are examined. Four sources are c...

Thucydides, Horace, and Plato on the Ancient World's Conflicts and Pressures

In five pages this report examines the similarities that exist between past and present world conflicts. Three sources are cited ...

Attack on Plotinus, Artistotle, Plato, and Presocratics by David Hume

of participating in Forms consists (as he holds in the Phaedo) in taking the Forms apart, with the result that nothing remains: 1)...