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and symbolism. As Arnold embraces God along with the seas that the maker has created, he questions things. The church is often the...

the more metaphysical idea that the world of the present is known as the physical world that one is able to perceive using the sen...

the circumstance. In other words, if something can go wrong with it, that sense is considered inconsequential to the final outcome...

Socrates frequently alluded was the basis for his debates with Gorgias, contending that the degree of abstraction pursued by thoug...

is only preserved as a term of reproach" (Plato). He illustrates how the figures of men and women and the third figure were round ...

for, but for which there were certainly problems. People too easily give up on it. In his work entitled The History of the Pelopon...

try to be more than they are. In this poem we have a simple boy who works and praises God. He is told that the Pope praises God as...

around, arousing them and persuading them. He illustrates how people are often irritated by him because they feel they have been r...

as well as the people. When one views the former President of the United States, Bill Clinton, for example, one hardly thinks ab...

Introduction The issues surrounding abortion are complex to say the least. People are polarized on the issue...

background, the points which Gray (2001) makes are surprising to say the least. Gray (2001) sees the war we as a society are wagi...

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...

we mortals bear perforce, although we suffer; for they are much stronger than we. But now I will teach you clearly, telling you th...

and ones existence. To reach true happiness, Plato contended that people must strive for a contentment that only comes from being...

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...

leg only" (Plato). If this were true, if there were only one process in regards to life-death, then everything would ultimately co...

sported the slogan "Challenge Authority." To many, it had little meaning. That is because the majority of people are sheep. They d...

smooth stone/ That overlays the pile; and, from a bag/ All white with flour, the dole of village dames,/ He drew his scraps and fr...

and it was this heart-felt emotion that elevated her works from ordinary to the ranks of extraordinary. Music had long play...

see the secrecy, the sense of spying that is darkness, though not a darkness associated with nature, other than perhaps the nature...

born (The Life of Emily Dickinson). Although her childhood was typical of most, by the time she was a young adult she had retreat...

essential to the happiness of a man - having something worth living for is as important as having something worth dying for (Bloom...

loss and redemption. If one were to move deeper into the meanings of both poems, or on an emotional, cognitive tour of the poem, ...

argued that poetry is the expression of ones very soul, encompassing many emotions, feelings and desires that can range from one e...

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 ...

the bird with his crossbow. With this act, which apparently was motivated by pure blood-lust, the Mariner sins not only ag...

ambitious path than romanticism (Liebman 417). In fact, Frost tries to make every poem a metaphor to show his commitment to thes...

of the same) is "reason" rather than the self-conscious "I." One may then extend the concept from ethical ideas to morality, whic...