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Essays 31 - 60
classes in the State severally did their own business; and also thought to be temperate and valiant and wise by reason of certain ...
works into three central periods: namely, early, middle and late and the Republic is generally regarded as a middle period work (W...
Yet is it just to have such a rule in place? Furthermore is a just for a professional football team to be fined, simply because th...
that was determined by human will, in that people choose whether or not to keep their promises (Hobbes, 1982). Those that keep th...
society exist without democracy? Many theorists today would think not, and while many enlightened individuals could argue that mer...
like Hades and the underworld; Tiresias the blind seer; and other references to death and dying (Plato). They decide they have to...
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...
in order to be just. Many are familiar with the tales of Sodom and Gomorrah from the bible. They understand that many cities had ...
soul, as imaged by Plato, is made up of the qualities of reason, spirit and desire or appetite (Honderich, et al, 1995). The "reas...
a weapon to the hands of a madman is obviously unjust. Taylor (2003) comments on how this refutation of Cephalus position demonstr...
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 ...
for which they are talented. Here, it is thought that the rulers who are willing to rule, who go into the cave, who are vocal, are...
how ones intellect cannot be considered a gender. In other words, intelligence is intelligence regardless of where it is housed. ...
is no realistic political system, for it takes considerably more than one mans word to impart a true sense of unity. "Thus, for y...
This paper discusses different parts of Plato's Republic. There is a discussion of natural law legal theory and legal positivist t...
to be transcendent elements sent to teach important lessons turns out to be nothing more than images cast from puppets whose shado...
reaching true conclusions and therefore may use their knowledge of language and logic to confuse the average person on the issues ...
between the citizens. Taken together, the guardians are people who are skilled in governing certain areas. However, these two type...
then, accompanied by proof, it can therefore be called knowledge. He seems to move in circles a bit with this assertion, in that ...
of quickness and penetration, piercing easily below the clumsy platitudes of Thrasymachus to the real difficulty; he turns out to ...
concepts that are far beyond his level of comprehension, only to ultimately be able to process the information. To reach true m...
he had dragged him out into the light of the sun" he would be distressed. For Socrates, the world above ground represents the othe...
the soul. What the mind or soul once knew is raised to present awareness by a process of recollection aided by the technique of di...
would Hobbes be accepted in todays world? Would he fit in at all? These and other questions loom large. Still, each in their own w...
yet does not lose faith in the just and true" (Plato Jowett Translation Characters). In this we see that Plato appears to be indic...
is a case for communism at least for the lower classes. The supporting premises for that conclusion have already been noted and ge...
unison (Rosen, 2005). Plato (1996) writes: "Is not the community of pleasure and pain the tie that binds? The sharing, to the grea...
In six pages this paper examines the just society quest as philosophically considered by John Stuart Mill in 'On Liberty,' Jean Ja...
In five pages analogy is defined and then related to these two philosophers as they are used in Rousseau's The Social Contract and...