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In nine pages this paper examines the social utopia presided over by a philosopher king as described by Plato in The Republic. Th...
seen, but somewhat obscured by the appearance of shadows. The dialogue commences further with Socrates discussion of the divisi...
In five pages this research paper analyzes the illusion of the shadows viewed by the prisoners in the cave allegory featured in th...
In twenty pages this paper discusses the failed efforts of Plato to sufficiently train Dionysus the Younger to become a philosophe...
In ten pages this paper discusses how knowledge is considered via three types of philosophical arguments in The Republic by Plato....
In five pages this paper examines the perspectives on justice expressed by Plato in The Republic and in the Bible's Book of Luke. ...
In six pages issues involving cultural prejudice in the classroom and how the educator should handle such an occurrence is conside...
In five pages this paper examines The Republic by Plato in a consideration of Glaucon and Socrates' dialogue and how the Gyges myt...
In five pages The Republic by Plato is examined in a consideration of Books I and II in a discussion of Socrates' extended dialogu...
In five pages the individual is defined as revealed in The Republic by Plato and in Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson with the ...
In ten pages The Republic is examined in a consideration of how Plato regarded women's status and the issue of equality. There ar...
In seven pages the process of making ethical decisions is discussed in terms of the definitions provided in The Holy Bible and The...
which sight resides is the sun? No. Yet of all the organs of sense the eye is the most like the sun? By far the most like" (204)...
In six pages this report discusses how Plato uses rhetoric persuasively in his 'Allegory of the Cave' featured in The Republic. T...
In five pages this paper examines art as it was critiqued by Plato in The Republic. There are no other sources cited....
In 6 pages this paper critically analyzes Socrates argument regarding justice in this text and the use of logical deduction by Pla...
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...
as its model. Things are intellectually and emotionally captured by the understanding, not by the senses. The "Forms" of Things ...
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 six pages this paper considers the self interest and justice arguments of Thrasymachus and Socrates in The Republic. One sourc...
of life, Socrates contends that reason is as well. Socrates considers the difference between those things that can be understood ...
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 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...
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...
"clearness and accuracy" (336d). He elaborates in section 338c that while there are different forms of governments, each one "defi...
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...
body defines justice that makes it so. Therefore, as Plato points out, rulers must be able to distinguish between justice or inju...