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This paper discusses different parts of Plato's Republic. There is a discussion of natural law legal theory and legal positivist t...

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

can one know what is beautiful or what is ugly? There must be some sort of shared experience. Plato uses a cave allegory--somethi...

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

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...

In a type of author/character debate, Plato explores the premises of his theory by having Socrates debate them. Plato theorized ...

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

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

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

ideas. As we shall soon see, through these speeches Plato seems to have reasoned out how it is that mankind make their way from th...

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

(Washington State University, 2004). Plato asserts that our perceptions are essentially "shadows" of real objects. In ot...

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

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 ...

to be transcendent elements sent to teach important lessons turns out to be nothing more than images cast from puppets whose shado...

how ones intellect cannot be considered a gender. In other words, intelligence is intelligence regardless of where it is housed. ...

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...

the physical in a dramatic and practical way. While Aristotle saw the heart as just a physical organ, he had an idea that seemed t...

in order to be just. Many are familiar with the tales of Sodom and Gomorrah from the bible. They understand that many cities had ...

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

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

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...

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

she proved to me as I proved to him that, by my own showing, Love was neither fair nor good. " Here, the idea that love is powerfu...

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...

on this subject might want to explore various opinions on democracy and society. Socrates claimed that democracy--because it is ...

would be clearly dependent upon the eye of the beholder. Therefore, the conclusions were not judgments, per se, but were response...

change and that personality stays the same. In order to comprehend why this is not the case, and understand the thesis which also ...

he had dragged him out into the light of the sun" he would be distressed. For Socrates, the world above ground represents the othe...

much like ourselves. As this suggests, Socrates means to make it clear that this allegory has relevance to the realities of everyd...