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they have the capacity to attain a happy, or perfect, life. Essential to the perfect polis is the individuals capacity to strive ...

In five pages this report examines Plato's perspectives on leadership as they are reflected in The Republic. One source is cited ...

In four pages this paper examines how The Republic presents Plato's views regarding liberty and the perfect state. There are no o...

This paper compares and contrasts Machiavelli's The Prince and Plato's Republic. This eight page paper has seven sources listed in...

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)....

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

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...

reaching true conclusions and therefore may use their knowledge of language and logic to confuse the average person on the issues ...

between the citizens. Taken together, the guardians are people who are skilled in governing certain areas. However, these two type...

how ones intellect cannot be considered a gender. In other words, intelligence is intelligence regardless of where it is housed. ...

to be transcendent elements sent to teach important lessons turns out to be nothing more than images cast from puppets whose shado...

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...

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...

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 ...

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

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

In seven pages the cave allegory featured in Plato's Republic is applied to contemporary U.S. political leadership. Four sources ...

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...

and 1 Kings 11:3 indicates that the monarch of Israel had "seven hundred princesses and three hundred concubines." There is a gr...

This paper discusses different parts of Plato's Republic. There is a discussion of natural law legal theory and legal positivist t...

to the tribe itself, and he was orphaned at a young age (Williams, 1962). When he was a young man, he was employed by a wealthy wi...

texts because it is accepted by a religion as the Word of God or the Word of Allah, in Islam. All religions have a sacred text upo...

on which a religion is based. It is one of the forms of communication in the religion along with ritual activities, architecture a...

is great interest. Plato looks at all of these things in his book The Republic. In Book I, justice is discussed and it is deemed ...