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she taught him that the journey of the soul is to go from the immediate experience of the everyday world and ascend into a realm t...

self-destruction. Socrates proposes many people in the simple city would not be satisfied forever with a simple way of life (Pla...

In nine pages this report compares the philosophies on human nature as conceptualized by Niccolo Machiavelli and Plato with Plato'...

Since approximately 700 B. C., astronomy had a great deal to do with keeping time (PG). Natural periods of time were generated th...

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

the more metaphysical idea that the world of the present is known as the physical world that one is able to perceive using the sen...

his argument to the priestess who taught him mysteries in his youth, Diotima of Mantinea. Attributing his words to Diotima, Socrat...

employee believes a child is abused, they must call the authorities. If a child has a fight in school, the latest trend is to file...

student introduce and summarize Platos "allegory of the cave". The allegory of the cave, as it is commonly known, is a dialogue be...

that man and woman should be attracted to each other, fall in love, marry, and produce new life. This is Eros love" (Eros. Philios...

revealing aspect of "Loves Executioner" which makes the book a tremendously useful and constructive resource to practicing psychot...

In six pages this paper discusses how Plato's Euthyphro would be received by Hume and Kant in a consideration of family duty, love...

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

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

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

as the Socratic dialogue that in many ways can be compared to todays constructivist approach to education in which he "drew forth ...

This 5 page paper argues that true love is a rare, idealised type of love that is truly found only in a parent's love for a child....

something in Platos morality which does not really belong to Plato but is only to be met with in his philosophy, one might say in ...

In 5 pages this text by Plato is analyzed in terms of the differences between pleasure and love and also considers why a Socratic ...

pavilions from all different nations, and its possible to buy food and authentic merchandise from the country youre visiting. The...

anxiety of aloneness, but the wish to conquer or be conquered, by vanity, by the wish to hurt or even to destroy, as much as it ca...

in order to be just. Many are familiar with the tales of Sodom and Gomorrah from the bible. They understand that many cities had ...

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

noble. Socrates was doing the right thing. Today, as people wrestle with unjust rules and laws, there are some who simply follow ...

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...

hope for ever having his love requited has evaporated, but he persists in his quest regardless because it has become too late to b...

is a case for communism at least for the lower classes. The supporting premises for that conclusion have already been noted and ge...

So for Plato, this idea extended into both personal and political ramifications. He reasoned that when an individual was doing th...

a weapon to the hands of a madman is obviously unjust. Taylor (2003) comments on how this refutation of Cephalus position demonstr...

In six pages this paper compares contemporary religious views with Plato's philosophical concepts with God's existence, morality, ...