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

right or correct, or is there something about that action itself that God recognizes, and for this reason declares the action corr...

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

In eight pages this paper analyzes how Plato's methods as they involve truth are considered in an examination of this trio of dial...

argued that this is true, Plato, but let us bring forth two other philosophers to create a better atmosphere for this discourse. ...

or values. It is by understanding leadership and its influences that the way leadership may be encouraged and developed in the con...

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

deep down, but on the surface they are essentially chained and shackled. They are in the dark about a lot of things because they c...

In six pages this paper considers Plato's text in its representation of the evil and unhappiness of the 'unjust' according to Socr...

In five pages this paper examines youth and adult education according to Plato's philosophy. Three sources are listed in the bibl...

In five pages this essay distinguishes between how forms were conceptualized by Plato and his student Aristotle with Aristotle bei...

is an eternity to teenagers. It was his intention to tell the story of a generation coming of age in one night" (Hyams et al PG)....

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

the notion of justice. This was essentially defined as doing the right thing. We note that one of the characters in the Republic i...

or reflections of a separate world of independently existing, eternal, and unchanging entities called "forms" or "ideas." Ordinary...

of Nature. He has also noted that while the 20th century has involved a great deal of specialization, the 21st century will be a ...

In ten pages this paper compares contemporary Christianity and the writings of Alan Jones and Paul Tillich with the Theory of Form...

However, we can also argue that the proof f this truth made no difference to whether the belief was true, being true even before i...

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

still perhaps not arriving at solid answers when his friend tells him he has to leave. Socrates tells him, "Alas! my companion, an...

This paper discusses different parts of Plato's Republic. There is a discussion of natural law legal theory and legal positivist t...

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

subject of forms. While Plato held a dual realms theory, Aristotle saw form and matter as existing in the same realm. In discussi...

are afraid because ignorant, and perceive the pain and not the benefits; nor do they apprehend that a sick soul is worse than a si...

leg only" (Plato). If this were true, if there were only one process in regards to life-death, then everything would ultimately co...

accept. According to Honderich (1995), what has already been said is true in that "whether what is said about the world is true s...

theory of "seeing is believing" and that something must be touched in order to be a reality. According to Goellnitz, one s...

of just what human nature represents in relation to mans actions. It has long been postulated that human nature is bound by defen...

In five pages the philosophical and autobiographical aspects of this text are analyzed in five pages. Four sources are cited in t...

texts The Republic and Crito, Plato learned his lessons well. In both works, Plato theorizes what justice is through deductive re...