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Essays 121 - 150
In five pages the individual is defined as revealed in The Republic by Plato and in Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson with the ...
In seven pages the process of making ethical decisions is discussed in terms of the definitions provided in The Holy Bible and The...
which sight resides is the sun? No. Yet of all the organs of sense the eye is the most like the sun? By far the most like" (204)...
offer a profusion of pleasures... injustice pays better than justice" (364b). Next, Socrates appeared to shift gears and direct t...
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...
In ten pages The Republic is examined in a consideration of how Plato regarded women's status and the issue of equality. There ar...
In six pages this report discusses how Plato uses rhetoric persuasively in his 'Allegory of the Cave' featured in The Republic. T...
In five pages this paper examines art as it was critiqued by Plato in The Republic. There are no other sources cited....
this pint he is, in essence, pleading for his life and states, "I dare say that you may feel irritated at being suddenly awakened ...
the best" (the literal definition of aristocracy) was to be achieved. This scenario, by its very nature, assured the manifestatio...
works into three central periods: namely, early, middle and late and the Republic is generally regarded as a middle period work (W...
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...
In six pages this paper analyzes The Republic by Plato in a consideration of how women's roles are portrayed. There is 1 source c...
for Plato and are directly related to that capacity of understanding. Physical things of the world must, of necessity, have bodily...
the notion of justice. This was essentially defined as doing the right thing. We note that one of the characters in the Republic i...
classes in the State severally did their own business; and also thought to be temperate and valiant and wise by reason of certain ...
tragedy" (Cai, 1999, p. 317). For Confucius, the focus was much narrower: when he considered poetry, he was thinking of the Book o...
to be achieved. This scenario, by its very nature, assured the manifestation of orderliness and moderation rather than the less a...
importance and children were to be guarded from superfluous information to come from for example poetry and literature. Rather, th...
In 6 pages this paper critically analyzes Socrates argument regarding justice in this text and the use of logical deduction by Pla...
body defines justice that makes it so. Therefore, as Plato points out, rulers must be able to distinguish between justice or inju...
many partners and purveyors will be required to furnish them. One person will turn to another to supply a particular want, and fo...
much like ourselves. As this suggests, Socrates means to make it clear that this allegory has relevance to the realities of everyd...
advent of history. When women were allowed to work in the factories during World War II, it was found that the women were actually...
"clearness and accuracy" (336d). He elaborates in section 338c that while there are different forms of governments, each one "defi...
of life, Socrates contends that reason is as well. Socrates considers the difference between those things that can be understood ...
or so it might seem. But when they return; of course, they are blinded. They may know all and they may have seen all-- but perhaps...
as its model. Things are intellectually and emotionally captured by the understanding, not by the senses. The "Forms" of Things ...
of the perceptions of others. It is only the question of whether or not seeming and being are one in the same or whether there is...
In six pages this paper considers the self interest and justice arguments of Thrasymachus and Socrates in The Republic. One sourc...