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In two pages this paper considers Plato's use of tetralogy organization in an overview of Books I and II of The Republic. There a...

role of rhetoric within the political arena. Therefore, "Rhetoric is the expressed genre of the second grammatical person" (545)....

In five pages this paper examines Plato's views on human nature as they are presented in The Republic with the 'Good City,' societ...

In five pages this paper compares modern science's concept of reality with Plato's Theory of Forms and how they relate to understa...

In five pages analogy is defined and then related to these two philosophers as they are used in Rousseau's The Social Contract and...

for an impartial judge; one who would not be swayed by public opinion and "hype" to pre-judge the tyrant. With themselves a...

In order to effectively answer this, they decide on the necessity for an impartial judge who could not be made to choose a biased ...

they have the capacity to attain a happy, or perfect, life. Essential to the perfect polis is the individuals capacity to strive ...

In five pages this report examines Plato's perspectives on leadership as they are reflected in The Republic. One source is cited ...

In four pages this paper examines how The Republic presents Plato's views regarding liberty and the perfect state. There are no o...

This paper compares and contrasts Machiavelli's The Prince and Plato's Republic. This eight page paper has seven sources listed in...

In five pages this paper examines Socrates' dialogue with Thrasymachus and considers his concept of justice as described in Plato'...

prisoners were suddenly unshackled and forced to turn around and face the fire. To begin with, he would be blinded by its brillian...

In six pages this paper discusses the philosophical distinctions Socrates made between these two concepts as presented in Plato's ...

In seven pages this paper examines Plato's Phaedo and The Republic in terms of how it portrays the philosopher's perspectives on d...

In five pages a comparison and contrast of how these philosophers perceived political leadership are made by noting the difference...

In four pages this paper discusses the contemporary court system and considers Plato's philosophy on leadership as presented in Th...

yet does not lose faith in the just and true" (Plato Jowett Translation Characters). In this we see that Plato appears to be indic...

he had dragged him out into the light of the sun" he would be distressed. For Socrates, the world above ground represents the othe...

the soul. What the mind or soul once knew is raised to present awareness by a process of recollection aided by the technique of di...

is a case for communism at least for the lower classes. The supporting premises for that conclusion have already been noted and ge...

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. ...

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

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

the lyrics in modern songs, and in essence, the poets of today are Eminem and Jay Zee and Beyonce. Lyrics to emanate from these ar...

soul, as imaged by Plato, is made up of the qualities of reason, spirit and desire or appetite (Honderich, et al, 1995). The "reas...

a weapon to the hands of a madman is obviously unjust. Taylor (2003) comments on how this refutation of Cephalus position demonstr...

in order to be just. Many are familiar with the tales of Sodom and Gomorrah from the bible. They understand that many cities had ...

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