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In five pages this report discusses the extent human effort can result in improvement in a consideration of Letters from the Stoic...

-- but to deny their husbands sex until the men agree to sign a treaty. It is the women, therefore, who actually end the war. Rea...

In ten pages this paper examines the wisdom of Socrates as it is depicted in Plato's Apology. There are no other sources listed....

In six pages this creative essay examines an event in which a college student had to defend beliefs and this experience is related...

in order to insure passage to the underworld. The Underworld in this mythology was not a particularly happy place; it was a gloomy...

ghost, a phantom-true, but no real breath of life" (23.122-23). This minimal survival apparently depends on the appropriate funera...

has many flaws. There is question as to whether or not the method really gets to the truth at all. In fact, one has to wonder whet...

most part. He was clearly setting himself up as some sort of martyr or individual who would ultimately bring about change to the s...

knew nothing and was far from wise, he sets upon a course of action to find someone wiser than himself to offer to the Oracle as r...

brought against me, and with my earliest accusers, and then with the later ones" (Plato, 1961, 18b). First, Socrates has been acc...

from the fact that I realized that I knew nothing. A man of my era named Chaerephon once asked the Oracle at Delphi is there w...

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

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

In three pages this paper considers whether or not learning is new information or simply recollection of past experience according...

In ten pages this research paper examines Plato's portrayal of the soul as being imprisoned and how it relates to a harmonious sta...

that leads Socrates to the conclusion that he will not be exiled from his beloved home, but would rather die a martyr for his beli...

is no realistic political system, for it takes considerably more than one mans word to impart a true sense of unity. "Thus, for y...

are the destroyer; and are doing what only a miserable slave would do, running away and turning your back upon the compacts and ag...

In six pages this paper examines Plato's Gorgias which describes a philosophical dialogue between the title character and Socrates...

In nine pages this paper considers Plato's views regarding the soul's immortality as featured in three of his dialogues. There ar...

In five pages this paper considers the purpose of Socrates' arguments as featured in three of Plato's dialogues. There are no oth...

In five pages this report considers Socrates' belief that an individual's foremost responsibility is to the state. There are no o...

Tovald must deal with those of his subordinates. Despite his law background, he is employed as a bank manager and has a number of...

then, accompanied by proof, it can therefore be called knowledge. He seems to move in circles a bit with this assertion, in that ...

In twelve pages Plato's dialogues The Republic, Phaedrus, and Gorgias are examined in an analysis of how the philosopher conceptua...

In five pages this report argues that both Protagoras and Socrates' ideals are ascetic and hedonistic as presented in Plato's dial...

In five pages this report discusses Plato's dialogues in terms of how Socrates regarded his philosophical role and how he was pres...

In five pages this paper examines the philosophical questions resulting from the dialogue between Meno and Socrates as presented i...

threatening. Instead of turning the anger they felt inward, they unleashed their fury outward onto Socrates, a convenient scapego...

"Metamorphoses" and Socrates "Apology". While "Apology" is Platos account of Socrates trial and ultimate death it is also...