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the lyrics in modern songs, and in essence, the poets of today are Eminem and Jay Zee and Beyonce. Lyrics to emanate from these ar...

fundamental importance in the Republic of the metaphor of descent and its connection to the two great themes of birth and death, a...

has many flaws. There is question as to whether or not the method really gets to the truth at all. In fact, one has to wonder whet...

most part. He was clearly setting himself up as some sort of martyr or individual who would ultimately bring about change to the s...

she proved to me as I proved to him that, by my own showing, Love was neither fair nor good. " Here, the idea that love is powerfu...

three characters (a stranger from Athens; Cleinias, from Crete; and Megillus, a Lacedaemonian) are discussing their various types ...

suggest that both love and hate can be taught (Plato). We can further extrapolate from that to conclude that if a nation is in har...

knew nothing and was far from wise, he sets upon a course of action to find someone wiser than himself to offer to the Oracle as r...

the preexistence of the soul, and the separate existence of forms work together or not? Thats a lot of questions to tackle, and to...

philosophical thought begs to differ. In the pre-Plato period, for example, the prevailing belief was that pleasure was immediate ...

change and that personality stays the same. In order to comprehend why this is not the case, and understand the thesis which also ...

at once managed for himself to become one of the envoys to the king ; upon arrival, having seduced his wife, with her help, he lai...

of subjective satisfaction (Seifert, 2003). Moral goodness just is. One looks at a baby or a puppy and thinks that these living th...

have merit, they are essentially inapplicable to our contemporary concerns regarding knowledge. In other words, while knowledge m...

is a case for communism at least for the lower classes. The supporting premises for that conclusion have already been noted and ge...

a humans body. It sought to find pleasure and to find sustenance. "These appetites should not be allowed, to enslave the other ele...

know what they, themselves, look like. One day, one of the people breaks free from the chains and makes it back to the outside o...

senate dinner, or basically a drinking party after the meal. Though it is certain that Plato took literary license with the dialog...

he had dragged him out into the light of the sun" he would be distressed. For Socrates, the world above ground represents the othe...

Plato's Apology and Aristotle's Poetics are both considered masterpieces of ancient Greek philosophy. This report compares the two...

concepts that are far beyond his level of comprehension, only to ultimately be able to process the information. To reach true m...

on this subject might want to explore various opinions on democracy and society. Socrates claimed that democracy--because it is ...

Socrates ideas. He states that he will be Euthyphros student in these matters. Of course, it would seem that Socrates is being a b...

to the average man who does not embark on philosophical pursuits, and does not wonder how the world began but accepts the explanat...

attempt to free themselves. What he has realized is that what they had seen all along on the wall of the cave were mere representa...

the soul. What the mind or soul once knew is raised to present awareness by a process of recollection aided by the technique of di...

call to action. Bruskin explains that "The essence of the period is that we were galvanized to do something." (32). While docume...

then, accompanied by proof, it can therefore be called knowledge. He seems to move in circles a bit with this assertion, in that ...

role in this respect. Plato held that the key agent in any sort of behavior but especially ethical or moral behavior (or lack of t...

was that they were certain and immutable. Also, knowledge must have as its objective that which is genuinely real as compared to t...