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of subjective satisfaction (Seifert, 2003). Moral goodness just is. One looks at a baby or a puppy and thinks that these living th...

have merit, they are essentially inapplicable to our contemporary concerns regarding knowledge. In other words, while knowledge m...

change and that personality stays the same. In order to comprehend why this is not the case, and understand the thesis which also ...

enjoying the fact that many people have bleeding hearts from love. The narrator is clearly an individual who has been harmed by...

are afraid because ignorant, and perceive the pain and not the benefits; nor do they apprehend that a sick soul is worse than a si...

is no realistic political system, for it takes considerably more than one mans word to impart a true sense of unity. "Thus, for y...

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...

of death, as well as the mystery of death. This establishes a foundation from which we can learn, especially considering that Nula...

try to be more than they are. In this poem we have a simple boy who works and praises God. He is told that the Pope praises God as...

human being from conception to death is encapsulated in a pod. In Platos Cave the only thing that they can see is...

with sickness, or the pilot who helps friends against "the perils of the sea" (Plato Book I). He then inquires into "what sort of ...

generation ancestors behaved as well. He classifies most relationships between family members as "the orders of love," and indicat...

So for Plato, this idea extended into both personal and political ramifications. He reasoned that when an individual was doing th...

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

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

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

of as gold, silver and slate. Gold is the level where there is a situation for a man where the girl loves him wholeheartedly. He...

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 the outside, the cave becomes a type of conduit, or birth canal which brings him into the life of actual knowledge. What one ca...

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

Aristotles contention is that we are all prone to anger - it is one of the "passions" that makes up our...

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...

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...

in Gilbs narrative is that Jake really doesnt know how to be anything other then deceptive and manipulative, the small-time con ar...

would Hobbes be accepted in todays world? Would he fit in at all? These and other questions loom large. Still, each in their own w...

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the Sharon Olds' poem 'Sex Without Love' with Raymond Carver's short story 'What W...

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

places her love at the basest level of daily life. She needs her love as she needs water to drink or air to breath. The love in fa...

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