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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...

However, Allen also makes the point that Platos attitude was at least partially due to his respect and fear of the powers of art o...

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 ...

and ones existence. To reach true happiness, Plato contended that people must strive for a contentment that only comes from being...

for, but for which there were certainly problems. People too easily give up on it. In his work entitled The History of the Pelopon...

as the original Greek legal process aspired to achieve such status, it can readily be said that its integrity has been severely co...

education is still substantially elevated in contemporary culture. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees virtue as choice and so mora...

top the list. The Catholic Church is often quoted as having said, "Give me a child until he is seven and he will always be Catholi...

things that are not concrete, but ideas. This type of thinking, the student could state, however, really puts a hold on empirical ...

(2002) argument is based on his experiences as first a federal prosecutor, then a trial judge, and finally a California Superior C...

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

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

as a teacher, is to free his students from the cave and metaphorically drag them into the sunlight. The selection from Phaedo reco...

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

Security; Governance Rule of Law & Human Rights; Infrastructure & Natural Resources; Education; Health; Agriculture & Rural Develo...

When the Reconstruction Period arrived, it looked as though blacks were going to regain their inherent rights as free citizens alo...

was to start writing down all the things he could remember that Socrates had said, writing down conversations he had hear and also...

In nine pages this report compares the philosophies on human nature as conceptualized by Niccolo Machiavelli and Plato with 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...

out of the hands of Vlad the III. (Vlad 1996) Vlad III eventually did manage to regain the thrown of Walachia by conspiring with...

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

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

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...

self-destruction. Socrates proposes many people in the simple city would not be satisfied forever with a simple way of life (Pla...

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

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