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

Idea of Crusading, The First Crusaders, 1095-1131, and The Oxford History of the Crusades. In page 49 of The First Crusaders, Ril...

This essay pertains to Plato's perception of rhetoric and the role of eros, as indicated by his texts Gorgias and Phaedrus. Five p...

In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at Plato's theories of Forms. Parmenides' views on change provide a counterpoint. Paper ...

This essay focuses on Plato's use of dialogue in his "Apology" and "Crito," and Augustine's use of the monologue in his "Confessio...

it would seem. Socrates agrees for he sees that by having such an argument with Euthyphro he may find a better way to plead his ow...

In six pages good and evil are examined along with Plato's assertion that evil is not knowingly committed by man. There are no ot...

perfect, despite what we observe. Forms are beyond this material world, for nothing that we can grasp in this world is perfect."3 ...

close relationships over great distances and for a long period of time, indefinitely, even with separations and loss of contact" (...

tone and character with the description of Xenophon, who says in the Memorabilia that Socrates might have been acquitted if in any...

wish, they have other freedoms that are perhaps not as obvious. Brave New World supports the hedonistic view. That is, Huxley (199...

for the student of psychology to develop a well-rounded and complete understanding of the discipline, it is necessary to study bot...

Kamath (2007) goes through all the possible outcomes regarding this dilemma. He explains that if the operation goes forth, there a...

involved European forces. At the same time, this is an American story. It would involve Americans. McManus (2004) claims that the ...

like knowledge itself, is secure. Indeed, according to Plato correct opinion is a guide to knowledge. To be correct, opinions th...

thought that the Theory of Forms was useless when it came to explaining the material world "because the connection between the two...

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...

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...

if he has acquired the knowledge he could not have acquired it in this life, unless he has been taught geometry; for he may be mad...

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...

brought against me, and with my earliest accusers, and then with the later ones" (Plato, 1961, 18b). First, Socrates has been acc...

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...

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

could be products of society, but never the causes, or it would alter the objectivity of sociology as a science (Hamilton, 1995). ...

people must strive for a knowledge that only comes from being true to ones own choice. According to Plato, men and women both hav...

what was passing in the world around them, to the realm of re-presentative intellect. An external phenomenon is thus translated i...

noble. Socrates was doing the right thing. Today, as people wrestle with unjust rules and laws, there are some who simply follow ...

n.d.). Plato did talk about God, in Timaeus, Plato said that if God made the world as perfect then the soul must be perfect, also ...