YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :What is Platos Republic Really About
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who, even for women, is feminine perforce" (Hoff, 1997, p. 215). Indeed, Platos Symposium exemplifies the need for virtue w...
thought and action. There are times, however, when vice distracts these efforts and renders man vulnerable to a less ethical exis...
In five pages this paper compares the views expressed by these authors regarding women's role and the infinite nature of love. Fi...
understand each of these elements through sensation, he finds himself challenged by the mutability of everything that exists: not...
In three pages this paper considers whether or not learning is new information or simply recollection of past experience according...
In a paper consisting of sixteen pages the Affirmative Action policies over the past thirty years are considered through an examin...
In five pages the theme of love is considered within the context of these authors and their tales. Three sources are cited in the...
In ten pages this paper examines the debate on affirmative action from the viewpoint of Platonic philosophy. There are 6 sources ...
In three pages the argument regarding 'health conscious' lifestyles is considered within the context of the United States and conc...
pious is to act like him, and not tolerate any ill act. Socrates wants more detail. Euthyphro says that what pleases the gods is ...
(he disguised himself as a woman and attended rites which only women could witness). Socrates is being held responsible for the i...
In five pages this report considers Socrates' belief that an individual's foremost responsibility is to the state. There are no o...
so that his assets could be pro-created and he could be put to death. Will Socrates did refuse the request, he simply went home ra...
same in all processes; to define the problem, to consider the alternatives, to evaluate the best course of action and to make the ...
cast them as slaves of the elite. This action of stripping an individuals inherent rights as a human being can be nothing other t...
The most important characteristics of Platos concept of human nature revolve around freedom of will and ones existence. People ha...
the little black book" - for good; they dont keep copies on the laptop or stashed somewhere else ("Recognizing the Signs"). They g...
academy the first university of its type, he was able to influence minds of the next generation and proliferate his ideas and meth...
could have packed a bigger wallop and even if the levees did not break, the people would have been devastated, but that did not ha...
the topic of education. He says, "Next, said I, compare our nature in respect of education and its lack to such an experience as t...
"...no man will benefit from his profession unless he is paid as well" (Plato, 2003, p.28). One can easily see that Plato does not...
without knowing that something solid existed humanity would not see or comprehend anything but shadows. When shown that the world ...
Naucratis in Egypt there dwell one of the old gods of the country, the god to whom the bird called Ibis is sacred, his own name be...
higher than those with iron. Plato argued that this deception was necessary in order to maintain a stable society, and we ca...
are the destroyer; and are doing what only a miserable slave would do, running away and turning your back upon the compacts and ag...
It has been suggested, especially during the past half-decade, that one main reason for supporting of censorship is to protect chi...
wiser (21a). This news confused Socrates greatly as he realized that he was not particularly wise. He, therefore, set out to find ...
Platonic love reflects the deepest love possible between two people, in that it does not abide by the notions of restriction, jeal...
What comes out of a courtroom is not necessarily truth, but which side argues best. The Sophists prided themselves on the use of p...
the affirmative to that and other questions. Later on Socrates will ask: "And, in your opinion, do those who think that they will ...