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can be found in many church doctrines today (Fisher, 2006). Augustine was a seeker of truth throughout his life (Smitha, 1998). H...

This research report looks at how Descartes would feel about Plato's ideas. Would he agree with Plato in his ideas about death? Th...

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 this research paper examines how Parmenides' Eleatic philosophy was used by Aristotle and Plato as a way for reality...

Brian Vickers portrays Plato as an intellectual Odysseus, stealthily stealing the rhetorical arsenal of the sophists and using it ...

employee believes a child is abused, they must call the authorities. If a child has a fight in school, the latest trend is to file...

Essentially, the allegory likens those who remain unaware of forms to prisoners chained in a cave, and they cannot turn their head...

conquered territory, when Pompey had returned he found he did not have the assistance of the Optimates and his requests were oppos...

"clearness and accuracy" (336d). He elaborates in section 338c that while there are different forms of governments, each one "defi...

(Encarta). The logic of having two leaders or "co-consuls" was based on the idea that having two men in charge would keep either o...

of souls (Frost 104). It is possible that Plato was attempting to use popular belief to promote the teaching of more profound trut...

importance and children were to be guarded from superfluous information to come from for example poetry and literature. Rather, th...

to be achieved. This scenario, by its very nature, assured the manifestation of orderliness and moderation rather than the less a...

much like ourselves. As this suggests, Socrates means to make it clear that this allegory has relevance to the realities of everyd...

many partners and purveyors will be required to furnish them. One person will turn to another to supply a particular want, and fo...

different aspects of individual virtue can be seen to be included. Meno offers the suggestion that virtue can be defined as the wi...

advent of history. When women were allowed to work in the factories during World War II, it was found that the women were actually...

body defines justice that makes it so. Therefore, as Plato points out, rulers must be able to distinguish between justice or inju...

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...

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...

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 six pages this paper considers the self interest and justice arguments of Thrasymachus and Socrates in The Republic. One sourc...

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 nine pages this paper considers Plato's views regarding the soul's immortality as featured in three of his dialogues. There ar...

Fact versus fiction is the focus of this analysis of theses classical texts in an essay consisting of two pages. There are no oth...

In eight pages this paper analyzes how Plato's methods as they involve truth are considered in an examination of this trio of dial...

In four pages this paper discusses the soul's immortality as represented in Socrates' arguments that are featured in Meno by Plato...

In eight pages this paper discusses social reformation in a contrast and comparison of the philosophies of Plato and Confucius....