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The only manner by which to acquire good statesmen and lawgivers, according to Socrates testimony, is to assure their individual a...
much that it has immeasurably been altered. Who was Socrates and why was he so influential? Socrates was a Greek philosopher who ...
some sort of graft then the government will also. Socrates, if one reads any of Platos works, seems to be a...
(Kemerling, 2002). Lacking professional teacher training, Socrates elected to do some "free-wheeling" by partaking of spirited di...
In five pages this paper explores an Athenian juror's perspective of Socrates with 'Spirulinus' presenting his trial observations ...
In three pages this paper discusses 'the pursuit of excellence' deemed by Socrates as life's goal. There are no other sources lis...
major argument in favor of poetry; that it was an educational tool that could be used in the instruction of moral values. Sidne...
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...
fundamental importance in the Republic of the metaphor of descent and its connection to the two great themes of birth and death, a...
the preexistence of the soul, and the separate existence of forms work together or not? Thats a lot of questions to tackle, and to...
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...
what was passing in the world around them, to the realm of re-presentative intellect. An external phenomenon is thus translated i...
the physical in a dramatic and practical way. While Aristotle saw the heart as just a physical organ, he had an idea that seemed t...
people must strive for a knowledge that only comes from being true to ones own choice. According to Plato, men and women both hav...
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...
if he has acquired the knowledge he could not have acquired it in this life, unless he has been taught geometry; for he may be mad...
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...
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...
of his text The Republic, Plato presents one of Western civilizations most accurate conceptualizations of the tremendous influence...
This essay pertains to Plato's perception of rhetoric and the role of eros, as indicated by his texts Gorgias and Phaedrus. Five p...
for the student of psychology to develop a well-rounded and complete understanding of the discipline, it is necessary to study bot...
In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at Plato's theories of Forms. Parmenides' views on change provide a counterpoint. Paper ...
This paper discusses different parts of Plato's Republic. There is a discussion of natural law legal theory and legal positivist t...
possible fat man in that doorway; and again, the possible bald man in that doorway. Are they the same possible men, or two possibl...
unison (Rosen, 2005). Plato (1996) writes: "Is not the community of pleasure and pain the tie that binds? The sharing, to the grea...
is clear that each of them has some wish in his mind that he cant articulate; instead, like an oracle, he half-grasps what he want...
would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images" (Plato, 1969. p. 409). He then likens the philosopher to a prisoner who ...