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Plato emphasizes the importance of maintaining self control in the face of eros, the importance of purging the passions of the fle...
as the original Greek legal process aspired to achieve such status, it can readily be said that its integrity has been severely co...
is supplemented by innate elements of the intellect (DeLouth, 2002). This theory keyed into the nature-nurture debate. Skipping ...
a body" (Aristotle), Plato illustrates his inability to see beyond mankinds mortal connection, opting instead to focus upon a deci...
(2002) argument is based on his experiences as first a federal prosecutor, then a trial judge, and finally a California Superior C...
top the list. The Catholic Church is often quoted as having said, "Give me a child until he is seven and he will always be Catholi...
education is still substantially elevated in contemporary culture. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees virtue as choice and so mora...
wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves social needs. A number of philosophers have contributed to the debate which...
the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...
for, but for which there were certainly problems. People too easily give up on it. In his work entitled The History of the Pelopon...
Essentially, the allegory likens those who remain unaware of forms to prisoners chained in a cave, and they cannot turn their head...
Brian Vickers portrays Plato as an intellectual Odysseus, stealthily stealing the rhetorical arsenal of the sophists and using it ...
This research report looks at how Descartes would feel about Plato's ideas. Would he agree with Plato in his ideas about death? Th...
In five pages these rhetorical forms as devised by Aristotle are discussed along with accompanying examples and an explanation of ...
as a teacher, is to free his students from the cave and metaphorically drag them into the sunlight. The selection from Phaedo reco...
can be found in many church doctrines today (Fisher, 2006). Augustine was a seeker of truth throughout his life (Smitha, 1998). H...
of souls (Frost 104). It is possible that Plato was attempting to use popular belief to promote the teaching of more profound trut...
Crito by Plato is the subject of this paper, which takes the form of an overview of what the author's characters concluded. This p...
a familiar kind of Socratic dialogue about justice, just as the Euthyphro is about piety and the Meno is about virtue. The Republi...
within the domestic sphere. Therefore, a Greek man typically took a younger male as his main love interest because only a man coul...
In five pages Plato by Robert W. Hall is analyzed. There are no other sources listed....
In two pages this paper examines philosophy's role and human activity purpose as well as Socrates' defense as represented in Apolo...
In ten pages this paper compares contemporary Christianity and the writings of Alan Jones and Paul Tillich with the Theory of Form...
In four pages this paper discusses the soul's immortality as represented in Socrates' arguments that are featured in Meno by Plato...
In five pages this argumentative essay employs these philosophical writings in support of the notion that the worst type of govern...
must pay for such without question. In Crito, we see Socrates pretending that the laws are coming to talk to him. They say to him...
seen, but somewhat obscured by the appearance of shadows. The dialogue commences further with Socrates discussion of the divisi...
In eight pages this paper discusses social reformation in a contrast and comparison of the philosophies of Plato and Confucius....
motives of ambition -- it has no name in common use that I know of; let us call it timarchy or timocracy -- and then go on to ol...
is good (Frost 84). For Socrates, "a life which is always inquiring and trying to discover what is good is the best kind of life, ...