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Socrates frequently alluded was the basis for his debates with Gorgias, contending that the degree of abstraction pursued by thoug...
interprets the ideal of freedom and to what extent they live in their own psychological prisons. Social freedom means that one wil...
student introduce and summarize Platos "allegory of the cave". The allegory of the cave, as it is commonly known, is a dialogue be...
tragedy" (Cai, 1999, p. 317). For Confucius, the focus was much narrower: when he considered poetry, he was thinking of the Book o...
a familiar kind of Socratic dialogue about justice, just as the Euthyphro is about piety and the Meno is about virtue. The Republi...
This research report looks at how Descartes would feel about Plato's ideas. Would he agree with Plato in his ideas about death? Th...
different aspects of individual virtue can be seen to be included. Meno offers the suggestion that virtue can be defined as the wi...
no matter how insignificant or trite they may seem. However, it would seem that he believed that there were at least two types of ...
Brian Vickers portrays Plato as an intellectual Odysseus, stealthily stealing the rhetorical arsenal of the sophists and using it ...
Indeed, one might readily surmise that Plato believed man was a product of how "own imperfect understanding of nature, of our igno...
(Garrett(1)). In addition these gods possess many human traits such as jealousy and envy. As Garrett(1) states, "These gods, mo...
self-destruction. Socrates proposes many people in the simple city would not be satisfied forever with a simple way of life (Pla...
defines it as sort of a liveliness of vividness that accompanies the perception of a new idea. A belief, he says, is more than an...
In two pages this paper examines philosophy's role and human activity purpose as well as Socrates' defense as represented in Apolo...
In five pages Plato by Robert W. Hall is analyzed. There are no other sources listed....
In fourteen pages this paper examines Socrates in an overview of his life and philosophical views regarding law, religion, reason ...
In five pages this essay contrasts and compares the views on forms held by Plato as critiqued by Aristotle with references made to...
In five pages this research paper examines how Parmenides' Eleatic philosophy was used by Aristotle and Plato as a way for reality...
In ten pages this paper refers to the writings of Thucydides, Aristotle, and Plato in a consideration of past and present politica...
In nine pages this report compares the philosophies on human nature as conceptualized by Niccolo Machiavelli and Plato with Plato'...
In five pages the differing political views between Plato and his one time philosophy student Aristotle are discussed with Plato's...
In five pages the views of Sartre, Hegel, Marx, and Plato on happiness are examined in a comparative analysis of their writings. ...
In five pages this paper examines how life's meaning and purpose are viewed by such great thinkers as Albert Camus, Friedrich Niet...
In four pages this paper discusses the soul's immortality as represented in Socrates' arguments that are featured in Meno by Plato...
must pay for such without question. In Crito, we see Socrates pretending that the laws are coming to talk to him. They say to him...
In ten pages this paper compares contemporary Christianity and the writings of Alan Jones and Paul Tillich with the Theory of Form...
In eight pages this paper discusses social reformation in a contrast and comparison of the philosophies of Plato and Confucius....
evolves to become so much more than he, at first, appeared to be as he came to see the errors of his ways by the end of the play a...
This paper considers the many struggles of Oedipus throughout the course of Sophocles' tragic play in five pages. Four sources ar...
In five pages this paper argues that the protagonist of Sophocles' play successfully satisfies the classical tragic hero criteria ...