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did not invent the principle of utility (which goes back to Plato) however, he was the first to devise a comprehensive theory base...
will a universal law" (Immanuel Kant). In ethics of choice, Kantian philosophy dictates that intention or consequences can ...
but never the subjects. The result is that injustice lords it over those who are truly simple and truly just. Because the unjust...
threatening. Instead of turning the anger they felt inward, they unleashed their fury outward onto Socrates, a convenient scapego...
that lying is not only necessary in some circumstances, but one may go beyond the few exceptions and see good in the lie. It is ce...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares Socrates' views on morality with those of Friedrich Nietzsche as expressed in Birt...
In five pages this paper examines concepts featured in 'Myth of the Cave' and The Apology and also considers 'The Death of Ivan Il...
Still, most Americans see themselves as free and voice their opinions loudly. What does this mean exactly? Is it the same freedom ...
the soul. In understanding the influence the pre-Socratics had, it is beneficial to consider some of the major questions and the ...
The only manner by which to acquire good statesmen and lawgivers, according to Socrates testimony, is to assure their individual a...
anti-discrimination legal issues and laws, equal rights protection, and the newer "discipline" of modern and critical race theory....
that love is beautiful and love is a god by showing them the true nature of love and the use love can be to humankind....
respond to and voice his opinions regarding the political events and developments of his time in England, but with a vision for th...
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 ...
soul has two principal parts. The first part of this argument is that nature inevitably follows a cyclical pattern. All vegetatio...
keep order and lock up criminals and investigate injustices, but it is not governments job to tell the people how to live their li...
tone and character with the description of Xenophon, who says in the Memorabilia that Socrates might have been acquitted if in any...
In five pages this paper examines how innocence is corrupted in a literary comparison and contrast of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bo...
In five pages this report argues that both Protagoras and Socrates' ideals are ascetic and hedonistic as presented in Plato's dial...
that they progress and improve. Mill writes, "The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activit...
pleas, Socrates will not hear of any escape plans. He points out that, even though the sentence was unjust, it was perfectly legal...
a weapon to the hands of a madman is obviously unjust. Taylor (2003) comments on how this refutation of Cephalus position demonstr...
even more disastrous in contemporary culture. There appears to be no end to what people will do to acquire a lot of money, often ...
but when exampled it becomes clear. For instance, one ought to respect human life. If one respects the life of another, then they ...
much that it has immeasurably been altered. Who was Socrates and why was he so influential? Socrates was a Greek philosopher who ...
preferred candidate for African-Americans at eighty-eight percent. In fact, other than the White vote, Kerry won out over Bush in...
the gods and sensible men, that you must worship it" (Plato, 51a). Therefore, Socrates clearly and evidently reveres the s...
Socrates frequently alluded was the basis for his debates with Gorgias, contending that the degree of abstraction pursued by thoug...
childhood, during his early life, Socrates was a sculptor, following in the footsteps of his father, Sophroniscus (Wikpedia, 2003)...
leg only" (Plato). If this were true, if there were only one process in regards to life-death, then everything would ultimately co...