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eighty percent rate that is currently representative of juvenile re-arrest in this country, only sixty percent find their way back...

each community and asking about individual "safety concerns and security needs" (Greene, 2000, pp. 299-370). One particular commu...

major argument in favor of poetry; that it was an educational tool that could be used in the instruction of moral values. Sidne...

smartest beings when it comes to illustrating their capacity for cultivating and understanding knowledge; therefore, the value of ...

interaction with the world, ourselves, and others. Our perceptual capacities are not fixed; they are not static or one-dimensiona...

the harp is broken the music stops; if the human dies, doesnt the soul also vanish? (Plato). It is to answer these concerns and ar...

that is permanent and immutable. It is this world that is more real; the world of change is merely an imperfect image of this worl...

his words appear incredibly arrogant and seem to stray off the topic, as the words illustrate his intelligence and depth more than...

the individual and a definition of justice. There are three classes for the state to function properly: artisans, who are skilled ...

because it is supposed to produce truth in the end. The essence of this method is a process that usually begins with Socrates ask...

Aristotles concrete, scientific theories are more relevant than Platos deductive and abstract ideology. Aristotle believed...

possibly think?" (I.3). As this indicates, Aristotles perspective is grounded in observation and reality. He sees the mind as intr...

various experiences are provided by Socrates and the others. In some way, the work examines the idea of power. After all, if someo...

why so many people had to suffer. No matter the cause, the gods were not looked on with the reverence they had once enjoyed, and t...

be quantified. That is, ones life may be the truth, but it cannot be articulated as the truth. Still, there had been much debate b...

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...

tragedy" (Cai, 1999, p. 317). For Confucius, the focus was much narrower: when he considered poetry, he was thinking of the Book o...

will is responsible for the subsequent chain of events. Therein is the problem of free will. If it in fact exists, how...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

life fulfillment and that a disabled individual should be allowed to die because their quality of life will not allow them to find...

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...