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wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves social needs. A number of philosophers have contributed to the debate which...

However, Allen also makes the point that Platos attitude was at least partially due to his respect and fear of the powers of art o...

top the list. The Catholic Church is often quoted as having said, "Give me a child until he is seven and he will always be Catholi...

things that are not concrete, but ideas. This type of thinking, the student could state, however, really puts a hold on empirical ...

(2002) argument is based on his experiences as first a federal prosecutor, then a trial judge, and finally a California Superior C...

for, but for which there were certainly problems. People too easily give up on it. In his work entitled The History of the Pelopon...

and ones existence. To reach true happiness, Plato contended that people must strive for a contentment that only comes from being...

human being for a short span of time. The cave allegory is quite well known and has been used by many to interpret Platos philosop...

Ulman, 2005, PG). In order to construct a successful argument for a particular position, therefore, one has to first amass th...

This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...

Christ. The polytheistic society of ancient Greece was already moving toward belief in a single god by the time of Plato and his ...

In ten pages this tutorial paper imagines a lively dialogue between political philosophers including St. Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle...

also believed in one realm. Spinoza writes: "By God, I mean a Being absolutely infinite -- that is, a substance consisting in inf...

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

of fire (The New York Times, 2008). He lived during the late fifth century BC (The New York Times, 2008). The Eleatic school for i...

Despite her poor reception by those that disagree with her philosophically, Costello makes many valid points about animal rights. ...

major argument in favor of poetry; that it was an educational tool that could be used in the instruction of moral values. Sidne...

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

interaction with the world, ourselves, and others. Our perceptual capacities are not fixed; they are not static or one-dimensiona...

will is responsible for the subsequent chain of events. Therein is the problem of free will. If it in fact exists, how...

In five pages the perceptions of classical philosophers Machiavelli, Plato, and Aristotle are applied to defense management's ethi...

can be found in many church doctrines today (Fisher, 2006). Augustine was a seeker of truth throughout his life (Smitha, 1998). H...

the strongest objection is to defend human composition by illustrating how equating the two are like comparing apples and oranges....

as a teacher, is to free his students from the cave and metaphorically drag them into the sunlight. The selection from Phaedo reco...

Essentially, the allegory likens those who remain unaware of forms to prisoners chained in a cave, and they cannot turn their head...

This research report looks at how Descartes would feel about Plato's ideas. Would he agree with Plato in his ideas about death? Th...

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

different aspects of individual virtue can be seen to be included. Meno offers the suggestion that virtue can be defined as the wi...

a familiar kind of Socratic dialogue about justice, just as the Euthyphro is about piety and the Meno is about virtue. The Republi...

In two pages this paper examines philosophy's role and human activity purpose as well as Socrates' defense as represented in Apolo...