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is only preserved as a term of reproach" (Plato). He illustrates how the figures of men and women and the third figure were round ...

is clear that each of them has some wish in his mind that he cant articulate; instead, like an oracle, he half-grasps what he want...

While the couple is not married in the legal sense to each other (their bonds of matrimony are with others), it becomes obvious th...

of quickness and penetration, piercing easily below the clumsy platitudes of Thrasymachus to the real difficulty; he turns out to ...

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

In five pages this paper considers Plato's reasons for writing Symposium in an examination of Alcibiades' speech creation. There ...

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

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

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

For example, Bostick (1935) makes copious use of footnotes, drawing on the works of Plato and Xenophon, who were two of Socrates d...

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

sort of attraction into three categories within the human brain: "1) Lust (the craving for sexual gratification), driven by androg...

a familiar kind of Socratic dialogue about justice, just as the Euthyphro is about piety and the Meno is about virtue. The Republi...

control of the United States and establish a dictatorship. Most women in Gilead are infertile after repeated exposure to pesticide...

In five pages this paper examines Socrates' arguments regarding capital punishment and the sophist foundation that cements them....

as he is "jerked from the heart of civilization and flung into the heart of things primordial" when a known and trusted human sell...

"It did not seem to me to be a time to guard myself / against Loves blows: so I went on / confident, unsuspecting; from that, my t...

soul, as imaged by Plato, is made up of the qualities of reason, spirit and desire or appetite (Honderich, et al, 1995). The "reas...

of death, as well as the mystery of death. This establishes a foundation from which we can learn, especially considering that Nula...

In five pages the 2 contradictory views of Socrates that are featured in Plato's Apology are discussed in an analysis of what thes...

In five pages this paper compares modern science's concept of reality with Plato's Theory of Forms and how they relate to understa...

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

offer a profusion of pleasures... injustice pays better than justice" (364b). Next, Socrates appeared to shift gears and direct t...

something in Platos morality which does not really belong to Plato but is only to be met with in his philosophy, one might say in ...

In three pages this paper discusses how the Athenians made class distinctions in a consideration of Socrates' noble myth depicted ...

means. The function of justice is to improve human nature, which is inherently constructive. Therefore, at a minimum, justice i...

In five pages this paper examines how Plato described Socrates' trial and death in his dialogues Phaedo, Crito, Apology, and Euthy...

form of flattery. Socrates voices such strong opposition to the type of oration he attributes to men like Gorgias because knowl...

In five pages this paper discusses Socrates' argument fallacies as they are portrayed in Crito by Plato. There are no other sourc...

In eight pages this paper examines Socrates' life and philosophy as represented in the Five Dialogues of Plato. Four sources are ...