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Essays 421 - 450
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...
individual to the spiritual and the universe. According to the scala amoris, then, love is that which in its highest and purest se...
how ones intellect cannot be considered a gender. In other words, intelligence is intelligence regardless of where it is housed. ...
to the outside, the cave becomes a type of conduit, or birth canal which brings him into the life of actual knowledge. What one ca...
is no realistic political system, for it takes considerably more than one mans word to impart a true sense of unity. "Thus, for y...
between the citizens. Taken together, the guardians are people who are skilled in governing certain areas. However, these two type...
reaching true conclusions and therefore may use their knowledge of language and logic to confuse the average person on the issues ...
are afraid because ignorant, and perceive the pain and not the benefits; nor do they apprehend that a sick soul is worse than a si...
humans cannot readily draw on the human collective conscious, or the knowledge that exists in the universe, they had a glimpse of ...
a weapon to the hands of a madman is obviously unjust. Taylor (2003) comments on how this refutation of Cephalus position demonstr...
spoke of virtue as something equated with wisdom. Yet he also "spoke more expansively of justice, courage, temperance, magnificenc...
In a type of author/character debate, Plato explores the premises of his theory by having Socrates debate them. Plato theorized ...
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...
soul, as imaged by Plato, is made up of the qualities of reason, spirit and desire or appetite (Honderich, et al, 1995). The "reas...
This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...
So for Plato, this idea extended into both personal and political ramifications. He reasoned that when an individual was doing th...
to be transcendent elements sent to teach important lessons turns out to be nothing more than images cast from puppets whose shado...
human being from conception to death is encapsulated in a pod. In Platos Cave the only thing that they can see is...
Although biblical, the story provides a warning in that perhaps a little knowledge can be harmful. Another point of view is that k...
have merit, they are essentially inapplicable to our contemporary concerns regarding knowledge. In other words, while knowledge m...
at once managed for himself to become one of the envoys to the king ; upon arrival, having seduced his wife, with her help, he lai...
of subjective satisfaction (Seifert, 2003). Moral goodness just is. One looks at a baby or a puppy and thinks that these living th...
philosophical thought begs to differ. In the pre-Plato period, for example, the prevailing belief was that pleasure was immediate ...
a humans body. It sought to find pleasure and to find sustenance. "These appetites should not be allowed, to enslave the other ele...
he had dragged him out into the light of the sun" he would be distressed. For Socrates, the world above ground represents the othe...
know what they, themselves, look like. One day, one of the people breaks free from the chains and makes it back to the outside o...
senate dinner, or basically a drinking party after the meal. Though it is certain that Plato took literary license with the dialog...
concepts that are far beyond his level of comprehension, only to ultimately be able to process the information. To reach true m...
change and that personality stays the same. In order to comprehend why this is not the case, and understand the thesis which also ...
In six pages this paper discusses how Plato's Euthyphro would be received by Hume and Kant in a consideration of family duty, love...