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Essays 211 - 240

Plato's Gorgias and Phaedrus

This essay pertains to Plato's perception of rhetoric and the role of eros, as indicated by his texts Gorgias and Phaedrus. Five p...

Does Romeo Really Love Juliet?

the little black book" - for good; they dont keep copies on the laptop or stashed somewhere else ("Recognizing the Signs"). They g...

Frederick Henry in Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms

pictured offering ironic commentaries on sculpture and art, with his conversation peppered with "allusions to Samuel Johnson, Sain...

Jury Member Speaks Out on Socrates’ Innocence

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

Plato's Arguments for Forms, Immortality and Knowledge

the preexistence of the soul, and the separate existence of forms work together or not? Thats a lot of questions to tackle, and to...

How Aristotle Opposes Plato's Attack on Poetry

the lyrics in modern songs, and in essence, the poets of today are Eminem and Jay Zee and Beyonce. Lyrics to emanate from these ar...

Elements in Plato's Republic

fundamental importance in the Republic of the metaphor of descent and its connection to the two great themes of birth and death, a...

Belief in the Gods and Plato's Practice of Open Inquiry

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...

“Apology” and “The Passion of Christ”

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

Education, Arete or Virtue, and Plato

like knowledge itself, is secure. Indeed, according to Plato correct opinion is a guide to knowledge. To be correct, opinions th...

Plato's Philosophy and Criticisms

thought that the Theory of Forms was useless when it came to explaining the material world "because the connection between the two...

An Analysis of Virgil's Depiction of the Tragedy of Dido

a cave. They make love and, from this point on, Dido considers them to be married even though a ceremony has not officially consec...

Plato's Allegory of the Cave and Religion

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...

Contemporary Society and Love

become separate" (p.48). An interest point is made as Fromm investigates erotic love. Today, many equate eroticism with romanticis...

Three Short Stories and the Nature of Love

this relationship, which is entails infidelity and, therefore, mistrust and lies. Similarly, miscommunication and infidelity pla...

Meno by Plato and Recollection Theory Relevance

if he has acquired the knowledge he could not have acquired it in this life, unless he has been taught geometry; for he may be mad...

'Canzoniere' by Petrarch

"It did not seem to me to be a time to guard myself / against Loves blows: so I went on / confident, unsuspecting; from that, my t...

Concept of a Spiritual Journey

and with that has come an interest in spirituality itself, outside of any religious context. It is this search for a truth that m...

Men's and Women's Education and the Philosophy of Plato

people must strive for a knowledge that only comes from being true to ones own choice. According to Plato, men and women both hav...

Love and What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver

love that both lives and dies upon ones overzealous sense of passion. "There was a time when I thought I loved my first wife more...

Knowledge and Philosophy

This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...

Thucydides v. Plato in Defining the Good Life

what was passing in the world around them, to the realm of re-presentative intellect. An external phenomenon is thus translated i...

The Republic by Plato and Poetry

like Hades and the underworld; Tiresias the blind seer; and other references to death and dying (Plato). They decide they have to...

Comparative Analysis of Sonnet 23 and Sonnet 147 by William Shakespeare

tongue slow to respond is more than fear, it is also rage (line 3). This rage is so intense that it weakens his heart, that is, hi...

Plato's Examination of the Soul

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...

Divine Vies of Plato

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 ...

Plato's Allegory of the Cave and the Film Men in Black

humans cannot readily draw on the human collective conscious, or the knowledge that exists in the universe, they had a glimpse of ...

'Against Love' by Katherine Philips, 'The Sick Rose' by William Blake and the Theme of Love

William Blake writes somberly: O Rose, thou art sick. The invisible worm That flies in the night In the howling storm Has foun...

Sociopolitical Classes of Plato and Their Parallels

soul, as imaged by Plato, is made up of the qualities of reason, spirit and desire or appetite (Honderich, et al, 1995). The "reas...

Current American Leadership as Viewed by Plato

In seven pages the cave allegory featured in Plato's Republic is applied to contemporary U.S. political leadership. Four sources ...