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in order to be just. Many are familiar with the tales of Sodom and Gomorrah from the bible. They understand that many cities had ...

and with that has come an interest in spirituality itself, outside of any religious context. It is this search for a truth that m...

can one know what is beautiful or what is ugly? There must be some sort of shared experience. Plato uses a cave allegory--somethi...

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

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

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

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

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

from the fact that I realized that I knew nothing. A man of my era named Chaerephon once asked the Oracle at Delphi is there w...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

with sickness, or the pilot who helps friends against "the perils of the sea" (Plato Book I). He then inquires into "what sort of ...

like Hades and the underworld; Tiresias the blind seer; and other references to death and dying (Plato). They decide they have to...

off than those who remain in the cave. Before delving into an analysis, it pays to explore the allegory as laid out by Plato. Wh...

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

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...

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 lyrics in modern songs, and in essence, the poets of today are Eminem and Jay Zee and Beyonce. Lyrics to emanate from these ar...

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...

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...

fundamental importance in the Republic of the metaphor of descent and its connection to the two great themes of birth and death, a...

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...