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Essays 751 - 780
charges of impiety and corruption of youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens ("Socrates," 2003). While this ph...
believe. Deweys central thesis is rather controversial, but is seemingly valid, and has withstood the test of time. Indeed, Deweys...
words, "how does one KNOW that this is the truth". Most of Socrates teaching took place on the steps of a Lyceum, much like an a...
the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...
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...
background, the points which Gray (2001) makes are surprising to say the least. Gray (2001) sees the war we as a society are wagi...
for example, would exist even if there were no human beings there to see it, but not that colour was an independent spiritual form...
as the original Greek legal process aspired to achieve such status, it can readily be said that its integrity has been severely co...
that love is beautiful and love is a god by showing them the true nature of love and the use love can be to humankind....
a body" (Aristotle), Plato illustrates his inability to see beyond mankinds mortal connection, opting instead to focus upon a deci...
youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...
education is still substantially elevated in contemporary culture. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees virtue as choice and so mora...
is good (Frost 84). For Socrates, "a life which is always inquiring and trying to discover what is good is the best kind of life, ...
patently incorrect assumption or definition. Socrates exercises in dialogue and thinking are not entirely negative and are certa...
84). However, Socrates is willing to concede that an individual can desire an evil thing if he mistakenly first evaluates it as go...
is supplemented by innate elements of the intellect (DeLouth, 2002). This theory keyed into the nature-nurture debate. Skipping ...
how the individual, the personality, that is a human being is likely never to experience an afterlife. In this we see that Flew do...
the amount of knowledge that anyone has very little to do with doing things that are wrong. Now, understandably, we can see wher...
Plato emphasizes the importance of maintaining self control in the face of eros, the importance of purging the passions of the fle...
theory of "seeing is believing" and that something must be touched in order to be a reality. According to Goellnitz, one s...
essential to the happiness of a man - having something worth living for is as important as having something worth dying for (Bloom...
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 ...
no matter how insignificant or trite they may seem. However, it would seem that he believed that there were at least two types of ...
right or correct, or is there something about that action itself that God recognizes, and for this reason declares the action corr...
of the same) is "reason" rather than the self-conscious "I." One may then extend the concept from ethical ideas to morality, whic...
a leader? How should a prince behave? Although the motive for Machiavelli writing this piece, and the application of this work to ...
the kings and philosophers -- should not have the right to bear children or even own their own property. This, he maintained, wou...
trial for treason and his thoughts prior to his execution. These are the Apology, the Crito and the Phaedo, which is an account of...
on justice that even the welfare of society cannot override" (Rawls PG). When examining the impact of Rawls theories with regard ...
not been easy. It has been on the agenda for several years for congress (Voegtlin, 1998), and there has been an inclusion of the ...