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Essays 391 - 420
in order to be just. Many are familiar with the tales of Sodom and Gomorrah from the bible. They understand that many cities had ...
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 report examines 2 questions on happiness in a consideration of Plato's works regarding the relationship between...
In five pages this paper examines youth and adult education according to Plato's philosophy. Three sources are listed in the bibl...
In a paper consisting of three pages it is contemplated what Russell's reaction to Plato's efforts to account for nature of realit...
individual to the spiritual and the universe. According to the scala amoris, then, love is that which in its highest and purest se...
also believed in one realm. Spinoza writes: "By God, I mean a Being absolutely infinite -- that is, a substance consisting in inf...
that there is just one objective right way of doing things and on the other hand, there are many truths, is an enormous difference...
What comes out of a courtroom is not necessarily truth, but which side argues best. The Sophists prided themselves on the use of p...
(Washington State University, 2004). Plato asserts that our perceptions are essentially "shadows" of real objects. In ot...
In a paper that consists of eight pages Plato's interpretation of the soul and its parts are explored along with a discussion of t...
In a type of author/character debate, Plato explores the premises of his theory by having Socrates debate them. Plato theorized ...
In seven pages the cave allegory featured in Plato's Republic is applied to contemporary U.S. political leadership. Four sources ...
This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...
a weapon to the hands of a madman is obviously unjust. Taylor (2003) comments on how this refutation of Cephalus position demonstr...
n.d.). Plato did talk about God, in Timaeus, Plato said that if God made the world as perfect then the soul must be perfect, also ...
Naucratis in Egypt there dwell one of the old gods of the country, the god to whom the bird called Ibis is sacred, his own name be...
wiser (21a). This news confused Socrates greatly as he realized that he was not particularly wise. He, therefore, set out to find ...
Platonic love reflects the deepest love possible between two people, in that it does not abide by the notions of restriction, jeal...
higher than those with iron. Plato argued that this deception was necessary in order to maintain a stable society, and we ca...
are the destroyer; and are doing what only a miserable slave would do, running away and turning your back upon the compacts and ag...
who, even for women, is feminine perforce" (Hoff, 1997, p. 215). Indeed, Platos Symposium exemplifies the need for virtue w...
In ten pages this paper applies the metaphysical tradition to an analysis of Existentialism and Basic Writings by Friedrich Nietzs...
thought and action. There are times, however, when vice distracts these efforts and renders man vulnerable to a less ethical exis...
Republic, 2002). Therefore, according to this theory, knowledge of anything and understanding of anything comes from examination ...
"Metamorphoses" and Socrates "Apology". While "Apology" is Platos account of Socrates trial and ultimate death it is also...
than our enemies, but inferior morally" and people must work to make themselves stronger in all respects (Plato, 1970, p. 45). ...
interlocutor" which is consistent with the importance he places on self-knowledge as a way to attain good and happiness. Callicles...
he means that this should apply to the average politician. Certainly, wisdom is seen as including morality. In terms of knowledge ...
that leads Socrates to the conclusion that he will not be exiled from his beloved home, but would rather die a martyr for his beli...