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Essays 181 - 210

Love in the Time of Cholera

old age. There is a symbolic reality to the novel that is always filled with a sense of illness and decay, which are all intricate...

Love as Sickness: Marquez

One author notes how "often couples in love do not see stark differences that are obvious to others in their personality. Love oft...

Judith Ortiz Cofer's Story of First Love

to her parents, her teachers, and her classmates that something was diverting her attentions from her studies and even from her fa...

Services for the Dying

Death is usually an awkward topic and one many people avoid even when facing the impending death of a loved one. Some believe that...

Poems on Sexuality, Blog Posts and Responses

This paper offers two blog posts. One on "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and the other on "Sex without Love" by Sharon Olds....

Parallels in the Early Church and Contemporary Society

This paper considers the quest for maturity of a Christian, a quest delineated in Roberta C. Bondi's book, To Love as God Loves. ...

The Four Stages of Christian Love

group, which itself was a well-regarded and well-educated order (Harris, 2001). As an advocate for a strong papacy, he commanded a...

Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock/Eliot

Song is an aging man who longs for love, particularly courtly love that fits with his expectations of both women and love....

Psychology and Philosophy

for the student of psychology to develop a well-rounded and complete understanding of the discipline, it is necessary to study bot...

An Analysis of a Case Study Regarding a Life and Death Decision

Kamath (2007) goes through all the possible outcomes regarding this dilemma. He explains that if the operation goes forth, there a...

Personal Knowledge and Plato's "Allegory of the Cave"

of his text The Republic, Plato presents one of Western civilizations most accurate conceptualizations of the tremendous influence...

Plato's "Crito" and "Apology"/Augustine's Confessions

This essay focuses on Plato's use of dialogue in his "Apology" and "Crito," and Augustine's use of the monologue in his "Confessio...

The Theory of Forms and Parmenides' Change

In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at Plato's theories of Forms. Parmenides' views on change provide a counterpoint. Paper ...

Natural Law Theory Ring of Gyges

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

The Apology, Antigone and the Concept of Virtue

in order to insure passage to the underworld. The Underworld in this mythology was not a particularly happy place; it was a gloomy...

Did Plato Influence St. Augustine

truly understand Gods word: "I ask Thee, my God: pardon my sins, and as Thou didst grant to Thy servant to speak those words, gran...

Plato's Allegory of the Cave: A Metaphysical View

would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images" (Plato, 1969. p. 409). He then likens the philosopher to a prisoner who ...

Happiness and Individuality According to Socrates and Huxley

wish, they have other freedoms that are perhaps not as obvious. Brave New World supports the hedonistic view. That is, Huxley (199...

Quine's "On What There Is"

possible fat man in that doorway; and again, the possible bald man in that doorway. Are they the same possible men, or two possibl...

Plato and Gender

unison (Rosen, 2005). Plato (1996) writes: "Is not the community of pleasure and pain the tie that binds? The sharing, to the grea...

Achilles and Socrates

ghost, a phantom-true, but no real breath of life" (23.122-23). This minimal survival apparently depends on the appropriate funera...

Plato's Gorgias and Phaedrus

This essay pertains to Plato's perception of rhetoric and the role of eros, as indicated by his texts Gorgias and Phaedrus. Five p...

Justice According to Thucydides and Plato

has Socrates presented with various definitions of justice. Socrates is always opposed to any rule or definition that can be appli...

Literary Classics, Knowledge of Death and Religion

it would seem. Socrates agrees for he sees that by having such an argument with Euthyphro he may find a better way to plead his ow...

Good and Evil as Conceptualized by Plato in Meno

In six pages good and evil are examined along with Plato's assertion that evil is not knowingly committed by man. There are no ot...

Justice and the Argument Between Socrates and Polemarchus in The Republic by Plato

do good, not evil to their friends (Plato, 2002). As this indicates, Polemarchus works hard to defend his fathers "rule of thumb...

Excerpt from Euthyphro by Plato

impious act. Euthyphro replies to Socrates claiming "I am amused, Socrates, at your making a distinction between one who is a re...

Was Socrates a Patriot or a Traitor?

tone and character with the description of Xenophon, who says in the Memorabilia that Socrates might have been acquitted if in any...

Forms According to the Theories of Aristotle and Plato

perfect, despite what we observe. Forms are beyond this material world, for nothing that we can grasp in this world is perfect."3 ...

Apology of Plato and Civil Disobedience

citizen was guaranteed the right to be heard in an Athenian court. Since the government structure was founded on the principle th...