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In a type of author/character debate, Plato explores the premises of his theory by having Socrates debate them. Plato theorized ...

In seven pages the cave allegory featured in Plato's Republic is applied to contemporary U.S. political leadership. Four sources ...

This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...

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

humans cannot readily draw on the human collective conscious, or the knowledge that exists in the universe, they had a glimpse of ...

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 ...

human being from conception to death is encapsulated in a pod. In Platos Cave the only thing that they can see is...

reaching true conclusions and therefore may use their knowledge of language and logic to confuse the average person on the issues ...

between the citizens. Taken together, the guardians are people who are skilled in governing certain areas. However, these two type...

how ones intellect cannot be considered a gender. In other words, intelligence is intelligence regardless of where it is housed. ...

ideas. As we shall soon see, through these speeches Plato seems to have reasoned out how it is that mankind make their way from th...

(Washington State University, 2004). Plato asserts that our perceptions are essentially "shadows" of real objects. In ot...

is no realistic political system, for it takes considerably more than one mans word to impart a true sense of unity. "Thus, for y...

to the outside, the cave becomes a type of conduit, or birth canal which brings him into the life of actual knowledge. What one ca...

individual to the spiritual and the universe. According to the scala amoris, then, love is that which in its highest and purest se...

both the military and his citizens. This power was called jus vitae aut necis meaning the power of life or death. This is not a re...

be considered. Expert witness testimony is necessary and, in fact of law, certain individuals always pose a danger to society or t...

pleas, Socrates will not hear of any escape plans. He points out that, even though the sentence was unjust, it was perfectly legal...

is not a possible course of action. If we start the disciplinary proceeding, we do not know if we are proceeding against th...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

would be clearly dependent upon the eye of the beholder. Therefore, the conclusions were not judgments, per se, but were response...

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