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84). However, Socrates is willing to concede that an individual can desire an evil thing if he mistakenly first evaluates it as go...

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

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

for example, would exist even if there were no human beings there to see it, but not that colour was an independent spiritual form...

youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...

who will eventually hold office and decide what to pursue in respect to issues like abortion, stem cell research and capital punis...

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

In three pages gender concepts are discussed in this consideration of how Plato regarded equality for women. Two sources are cite...

importance and children were to be guarded from superfluous information to come from for example poetry and literature. Rather, th...

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

In five pages this paper examines the neutrality of the state and its advantages where various concepts of the good are concerned....

to allow him to survive. Pojman draws a distinction between ethics (or morality), on the one hand, and etiquette, law, and religio...

believe. Deweys central thesis is rather controversial, but is seemingly valid, and has withstood the test of time. Indeed, Deweys...

he make it eternal anyway? Many people think of the universe as something that was eternal in the first place, irrespective of wha...

can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees it as symbolic of humans o...

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

Lysias topic is love, which in the ancient Greek world referred to the love of a man for another man. Homosexuality was practiced...

In six pages this paper examines good will and reason from the conceptual philosophical perspective of Immanuel Kant with argument...

a democracy. Plato contended that it would be impossible within a democracy to have the kind of harmony and societal unit...

In six pages The Book of Job from the Old Testament, Antigone by Sophocles, Crito and Apology by Plato, and The Clouds by Aristoph...

neighbor is henceforth called evil" (201). Evil does not come about by acts of omission but rather by deliberate intent. It is the...

of science there are two branches which are epistemology and metaphysics (Honderich, 1995). Science makes up an important part of ...

works into three central periods: namely, early, middle and late and the Republic is generally regarded as a middle period work (W...

that is permanent and immutable. It is this world that is more real; the world of change is merely an imperfect image of this worl...

have merit, they are essentially inapplicable to our contemporary concerns regarding knowledge. In other words, while knowledge m...

mapping. This is not a new approach but it is one that has gained a great deal of attention in the last several years. Concept map...

of human thinking and an awareness of what constitutes the basics of human nature. Their lessons and attitudes are still relevant ...

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

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...

that the story being told is one that has been re-told so often that it is little more than hearsay, and it is from this "story of...