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The ancient Greek arche concept is compared with Plato's soul concept in an argument that contends Plato's conflict resolution of ...

distance. In some way one can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees ...

Clouds by Aristophanes. Reasonably, Socrates points out that the character in the play speaks nonsense and should not be confused...

society exist without democracy? Many theorists today would think not, and while many enlightened individuals could argue that mer...

stratification of society. The rulers tell the populace that the divisions between one social group and another are because of div...

is not clear how the lower classes are expected to live (1993). It is also noted that while Plato makes a case for communism for ...

be attacked as while many analysts will agree that Plato clearly states this in The Republic, his other works suggest other ideas....

draw on the human collective conscious, or the knowledge that exists in the universe, they had a glimpse of it once, and that expl...

the best" (the literal definition of aristocracy) was to be achieved. This scenario, by its very nature, assured the manifestatio...

things that are not concrete, but ideas. This type of thinking, the student could state, however, really puts a hold on empirical ...

offer a profusion of pleasures... injustice pays better than justice" (364b). Next, Socrates appeared to shift gears and direct t...

they know was agreed upon in full assembly; and should it be decided that this is not so, the poor have discovered a hundred excus...

that was determined by human will, in that people choose whether or not to keep their promises (Hobbes, 1982). Those that keep th...

original thirteen colonies on which the new United States of America was founded removed their approval of being governed by the B...

character of the leader nor of his ability to lead. The book is essentially about how a leader can be at his best. While it is tru...

this pint he is, in essence, pleading for his life and states, "I dare say that you may feel irritated at being suddenly awakened ...

Yet is it just to have such a rule in place? Furthermore is a just for a professional football team to be fined, simply because th...

his writings (Levinson x). Socrates would continue to dominate Platos personal and professional lives for years to come, and woul...

In fifteen pages this report considers a review of literature in a discussion of whether or not Plato founded totalitarianism in h...

In nine pages this paper examines how justice was represented by Plato in such works as The Laws, The Gorgias, and The Republic. ...

seen, but somewhat obscured by the appearance of shadows. The dialogue commences further with Socrates discussion of the divisi...

In twenty pages this paper discusses the failed efforts of Plato to sufficiently train Dionysus the Younger to become a philosophe...

In ten pages this paper discusses how knowledge is considered via three types of philosophical arguments in The Republic by Plato....

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at American and Greek democracies. The Republic of Plato is also presented in summary-f...

very powerful and just individual, putting aside the fact she was a woman. While this speaks of men, and fighting for justice, one...

In five pages the individual is defined as revealed in The Republic by Plato and in Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson with the ...

In seven pages the process of making ethical decisions is discussed in terms of the definitions provided in The Holy Bible and The...

In five pages this paper examines The Republic by Plato in a consideration of Glaucon and Socrates' dialogue and how the Gyges myt...

In ten pages The Republic is examined in a consideration of how Plato regarded women's status and the issue of equality. There ar...

In six pages this report discusses how Plato uses rhetoric persuasively in his 'Allegory of the Cave' featured in The Republic. T...