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(2002) argument is based on his experiences as first a federal prosecutor, then a trial judge, and finally a California Superior C...
wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves social needs. A number of philosophers have contributed to the debate which...
the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...
education is still substantially elevated in contemporary culture. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees virtue as choice and so mora...
chastity and humility. He listed them subjectively, in what he regarded as their order of importance. But out of all these lauda...
a body" (Aristotle), Plato illustrates his inability to see beyond mankinds mortal connection, opting instead to focus upon a deci...
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...
is supplemented by innate elements of the intellect (DeLouth, 2002). This theory keyed into the nature-nurture debate. Skipping ...
the buying and selling of human beings. How would a Kantian analyze the ethics of slavery? How might a utilitarian, a social con...
Christ. The polytheistic society of ancient Greece was already moving toward belief in a single god by the time of Plato and his ...
of science there are two branches which are epistemology and metaphysics (Honderich, 1995). Science makes up an important part of ...
In ten pages this tutorial paper imagines a lively dialogue between political philosophers including St. Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle...
who will eventually hold office and decide what to pursue in respect to issues like abortion, stem cell research and capital punis...
human being for a short span of time. The cave allegory is quite well known and has been used by many to interpret Platos philosop...
This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...
for, but for which there were certainly problems. People too easily give up on it. In his work entitled The History of the Pelopon...
can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees it as symbolic of humans o...
subject of forms. While Plato held a dual realms theory, Aristotle saw form and matter as existing in the same realm. In discussi...
also believed in one realm. Spinoza writes: "By God, I mean a Being absolutely infinite -- that is, a substance consisting in inf...
play, I think, and maybe that is what does it. We are faced with the spectacle of all that love being lost on someone who can t r...
what is not. Descartes method of systematic doubt is to "reject as if absolutely false anything as to which I could imagine t...
This 5 page paper explores the concepts of virtue and self-discipline and how self-discipline applies to virtue in Toni Morrison's...
In this paper consisting of five pages the philosophy MacIntyre describes in 'After Virtue' is applied to the ethics of academic d...
In eight pages this paper discusses social reformation in a contrast and comparison of the philosophies of Plato and Confucius....
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 four pages this paper discusses the soul's immortality as represented in Socrates' arguments that are featured in Meno by Plato...
In five pages Plato by Robert W. Hall is analyzed. There are no other sources listed....
In two pages this paper examines philosophy's role and human activity purpose as well as Socrates' defense as represented in Apolo...
This research report looks at how Descartes would feel about Plato's ideas. Would he agree with Plato in his ideas about death? Th...