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advent of history. When women were allowed to work in the factories during World War II, it was found that the women were actually...
In five pages this paper presents a psychological analysis of Shakespeare's evil protagonist Richard III....
"clearness and accuracy" (336d). He elaborates in section 338c that while there are different forms of governments, each one "defi...
much like ourselves. As this suggests, Socrates means to make it clear that this allegory has relevance to the realities of everyd...
offer a profusion of pleasures... injustice pays better than justice" (364b). Next, Socrates appeared to shift gears and direct t...
yet does not lose faith in the just and true" (Plato Jowett Translation Characters). In this we see that Plato appears to be indic...
he had dragged him out into the light of the sun" he would be distressed. For Socrates, the world above ground represents the othe...
the soul. What the mind or soul once knew is raised to present awareness by a process of recollection aided by the technique of di...
concepts that are far beyond his level of comprehension, only to ultimately be able to process the information. To reach true m...
to be transcendent elements sent to teach important lessons turns out to be nothing more than images cast from puppets whose shado...
is a case for communism at least for the lower classes. The supporting premises for that conclusion have already been noted and ge...
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...
like Hades and the underworld; Tiresias the blind seer; and other references to death and dying (Plato). They decide they have to...
soul, as imaged by Plato, is made up of the qualities of reason, spirit and desire or appetite (Honderich, et al, 1995). The "reas...
in order to be just. Many are familiar with the tales of Sodom and Gomorrah from the bible. They understand that many cities had ...
In seven pages the cave allegory featured in Plato's Republic is applied to contemporary U.S. political leadership. Four sources ...
In a type of author/character debate, Plato explores the premises of his theory by having Socrates debate them. Plato theorized ...
fundamental importance in the Republic of the metaphor of descent and its connection to the two great themes of birth and death, a...
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...
for which they are talented. Here, it is thought that the rulers who are willing to rule, who go into the cave, who are vocal, are...
unison (Rosen, 2005). Plato (1996) writes: "Is not the community of pleasure and pain the tie that binds? The sharing, to the grea...
In a paper consisting of three pages Socrates' philosophy that men should always act justly is in stark contrast to Machiavelli's ...
role of rhetoric within the political arena. Therefore, "Rhetoric is the expressed genre of the second grammatical person" (545)....
In five pages this paper examines Socrates' dialogue with Thrasymachus and considers his concept of justice as described in Plato'...
In five pages this report examines Plato's perspectives on leadership as they are reflected in The Republic. One source is cited ...
In five pages this paper compares modern science's concept of reality with Plato's Theory of Forms and how they relate to understa...
In six pages the arguments of city vs. state, the individual, and soul and spirit that are raised in Hegel's Introduction to the P...
they have the capacity to attain a happy, or perfect, life. Essential to the perfect polis is the individuals capacity to strive ...
In four pages this paper examines how The Republic presents Plato's views regarding liberty and the perfect state. There are no o...