YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Many Virtues of Protagoras by Plato
Essays 601 - 630
the amount of knowledge that anyone has very little to do with doing things that are wrong. Now, understandably, we can see wher...
Plato emphasizes the importance of maintaining self control in the face of eros, the importance of purging the passions of the fle...
theory of "seeing is believing" and that something must be touched in order to be a reality. According to Goellnitz, one s...
patently incorrect assumption or definition. Socrates exercises in dialogue and thinking are not entirely negative and are certa...
something in Platos morality which does not really belong to Plato but is only to be met with in his philosophy, one might say in ...
works into three central periods: namely, early, middle and late and the Republic is generally regarded as a middle period work (W...
of the same) is "reason" rather than the self-conscious "I." One may then extend the concept from ethical ideas to morality, whic...
essential to the happiness of a man - having something worth living for is as important as having something worth dying for (Bloom...
no matter how insignificant or trite they may seem. However, it would seem that he believed that there were at least two types of ...
right or correct, or is there something about that action itself that God recognizes, and for this reason declares the action corr...
However, Allen also makes the point that Platos attitude was at least partially due to his respect and fear of the powers of art o...
societys goods (Platos Political Theory, 2002). They were satisfied with their lives and held back from being passionate natured ...
offer a profusion of pleasures... injustice pays better than justice" (364b). Next, Socrates appeared to shift gears and direct t...
his argument to the priestess who taught him mysteries in his youth, Diotima of Mantinea. Attributing his words to Diotima, Socrat...
wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves social needs. A number of philosophers have contributed to the debate which...
wine and pleasure, and rejecting the cold and structured nature of Apollonian society. For them, to be human is to follow ones bas...
they know was agreed upon in full assembly; and should it be decided that this is not so, the poor have discovered a hundred excus...
it comes to knowledge leads one to believe that people are much more likely to act out in such a manner that is motivated only by ...
the notion of justice. This was essentially defined as doing the right thing. We note that one of the characters in the Republic i...
(Garrett(1)). In addition these gods possess many human traits such as jealousy and envy. As Garrett(1) states, "These gods, mo...
things that are not concrete, but ideas. This type of thinking, the student could state, however, really puts a hold on empirical ...
(2002) argument is based on his experiences as first a federal prosecutor, then a trial judge, and finally a California Superior C...
Indeed, one might readily surmise that Plato believed man was a product of how "own imperfect understanding of nature, of our igno...
the best" (the literal definition of aristocracy) was to be achieved. This scenario, by its very nature, assured the manifestatio...
this pint he is, in essence, pleading for his life and states, "I dare say that you may feel irritated at being suddenly awakened ...
that the story being told is one that has been re-told so often that it is little more than hearsay, and it is from this "story of...
also wrote that one could live justly only if they lived in a just society (Beck, n.d.). Plato had a number of caveats about a jus...
had to be obtained by directing the students mind toward the discovery of what is real and important, then allowing them to deduce...
of innate knowledge, he was adamant that nothing could be learned except through experience and sensory input: "How comes [the mi...
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...