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Politics/Aristotle

This essay is on Aristotle's "Politics" and how he saw the role of the city in human life. The writer relates his political thinki...

Turning Point for James McBride, Within the Color of Water

This 5 page paper gives an explanation of a part of the book The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother. This p...

The Psychology of Entitlement

Similarly, the anecdote about Marie Antoinette saying "let them eat cake" in response to the information that the people had no mo...

Tripitaka in Wu Cheng'en's 'Monkey'

In an analytic essay consisting of five pages the Tripitaka character in Monkey is examined in terms of his representation of man ...

Poetic Metaphors Used by Boccaccio, Aquinas, Sidney, Shelley, and Aristotle

In twelve pages the poetic metaphor and its value is assessed within the works of these varied literary and philosophical icons. ...

Comparing Two Early Greek Philosophers with Plato

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

Justice Concept of Young Challenging the Views of David Hume, Thomas Aquinas, and Aristotle

men for the society in which they develop. Youngs concepts of justice and mans role in society appear to challenge those prese...

Birth Defects and Vitamin A Overuse

In five pages this paper discusses how birth defects including those involving the cranial neural crest and retinal issues can be ...

The Influence of the Cave Allegory

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

Plato/Apology of Socrates

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

Comparing Friedman and Plato's Economic Ideas

illustrates his stance which is that people, even if they are lacking, do not have the right to coerce the wealthy. Thus, if someo...

Plato's 'Republic' and a Consideration of Rational Intellect and Emotions

good gifts to their friends and family but often do not have the expenses which would allow them to do so. However, people may use...

'Unexamined Life' Philosophy of Socrates

In six pages this paper analyzes the contention of Socrates that an 'unexamined life is not worth living' as this view is represen...

Ivan Ilyich and Socrates

from the fact that I realized that I knew nothing. A man of my era named Chaerephon once asked the Oracle at Delphi is there w...

Thucydides v. Plato in Defining the Good Life

what was passing in the world around them, to the realm of re-presentative intellect. An external phenomenon is thus translated i...

Elements in Plato's Republic

fundamental importance in the Republic of the metaphor of descent and its connection to the two great themes of birth and death, a...

Life and Morality

role in this respect. Plato held that the key agent in any sort of behavior but especially ethical or moral behavior (or lack of t...

Authority , Just War and Thomas Aquinas

of Christianity is "Thou Shalt Not Kill," and yet Christians have been killing each other, as well as non-Christians, for millenni...

Female Characters and Ancient Texts

is clear that each of them has some wish in his mind that he cant articulate; instead, like an oracle, he half-grasps what he want...

Plato's Life and Philosophical Dialogues

in the Peloponnesian War, which ended in a resounding defeat for Athens in 404 B.C. (Levinson ix-x). While it can be assumed that...

Plato's Apology and a Pro Life Argument of Socrates

This narrative essay consisting of five pages rewrites the Apology of Plato and features Socrates' arguing to have his life spared...

Wrongful Conviction

- if not utterly unsettling - accounts with that of the Salem witch trials where personal agenda was the sole motivation that fuel...

Protection of Rare Species

the Columbia River, the endangered Caspian terns feed off of endangered salmon smolts. In this case, though, biologists were able...

Making Hunting A Deviant Behavior

However, there are myriad deviant implications with what many consider to be an innocent pastime; inasmuch as recreational hunters...

Socrates, Human Nature, the 'Good Life,' and Plato's Gorgias

interlocutor" which is consistent with the importance he places on self-knowledge as a way to attain good and happiness. Callicles...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Conflicts

and will stop at nothing to satisfy his ambition, even if it means killing his brother: "A murtherer and a villain! / A slave that...

Book Review of Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed

been hired, almost on the spot. Her "almost on the spot" hire is a job with a hotel restaurant, from 2:00 to 10:00 p.m. for $2.43 ...

Legacy System Dilemmas

productivity paradox indicated that there may never be a full return in terms of increased productivity (Lichtenberg, 1995). Tod...

Freakonomics (Book Review)

is willing to give that baby up may do things in her own interests and not the babys. This could make for a different outcome in t...

Human Resource Plan for Future Shop

Star, Future Shop, Geek Squad, Magnolia Audio Video, and Pacific Sales Kitchen and Bath Centers" (Profile 2008). Best Buy l...