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Platonic love reflects the deepest love possible between two people, in that it does not abide by the notions of restriction, jeal...

that there is just one objective right way of doing things and on the other hand, there are many truths, is an enormous difference...

that leads Socrates to the conclusion that he will not be exiled from his beloved home, but would rather die a martyr for his beli...

the affirmative to that and other questions. Later on Socrates will ask: "And, in your opinion, do those who think that they will ...

What comes out of a courtroom is not necessarily truth, but which side argues best. The Sophists prided themselves on the use of p...

Naucratis in Egypt there dwell one of the old gods of the country, the god to whom the bird called Ibis is sacred, his own name be...

the topic of education. He says, "Next, said I, compare our nature in respect of education and its lack to such an experience as t...

higher than those with iron. Plato argued that this deception was necessary in order to maintain a stable society, and we ca...

are the destroyer; and are doing what only a miserable slave would do, running away and turning your back upon the compacts and ag...

"...no man will benefit from his profession unless he is paid as well" (Plato, 2003, p.28). One can easily see that Plato does not...

without knowing that something solid existed humanity would not see or comprehend anything but shadows. When shown that the world ...

The most important characteristics of Platos concept of human nature revolve around freedom of will and ones existence. People ha...

is great interest. Plato looks at all of these things in his book The Republic. In Book I, justice is discussed and it is deemed ...

academy the first university of its type, he was able to influence minds of the next generation and proliferate his ideas and meth...

of law as it has manifest in the place of which he writes about. There is some action in this work. Yet, what the action is compr...

Wisdom, and the Word of God. Therefore, intellectual knowledge is not the result of the gathering of data by the intellect, but a ...

between Psyche and her other two sisters was that Psyche was appreciably more beautiful than they. By all accounts, the sisters we...

negative aspect to this competition, or that they would sabotage one anothers efforts out of jealousy....

they have experienced the fact that the truth simply is and is not an "issue" or understanding that can be discovered. "Meno" As ...

Tovald must deal with those of his subordinates. Despite his law background, he is employed as a bank manager and has a number of...

terms of a high human being, one may contend that it is the spiritual being--the priests, the rabbis, the ministers--who are reall...

Republic, 2002). Therefore, according to this theory, knowledge of anything and understanding of anything comes from examination ...

In five pages this paper discusses the connection between man's sins and the soul in this analysis of three levels of thought repr...

Knowledge is true judgment. Socrates and Theatetus are talking about the nature of knowledge. Theatetus suggests that mathematic...

what it is that you "can do," and then doing that for the good of the group - in this case the city. The unification of the virtu...

In ten pages this paper applies the metaphysical tradition to an analysis of Existentialism and Basic Writings by Friedrich Nietzs...

who, even for women, is feminine perforce" (Hoff, 1997, p. 215). Indeed, Platos Symposium exemplifies the need for virtue w...

thought and action. There are times, however, when vice distracts these efforts and renders man vulnerable to a less ethical exis...

he considered to be the most significant reason society is its own opposing force. According to Hobbes, subjects of the omnipoten...

In five pages this research paper analyzes the theory of forms developed by Plato and then provides a defense of the philosopher's...