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Plato's Answer to the Question 'Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?:'

Republic, 2002). Therefore, according to this theory, knowledge of anything and understanding of anything comes from examination ...

Form and Justice Theories of Plato

the notion of justice. This was essentially defined as doing the right thing. We note that one of the characters in the Republic i...

Ethics and Socrates' Philosophy

some sort of graft then the government will also. Socrates, if one reads any of Platos works, seems to be a...

Benevolence Concept of Bishop Joseph Butler

of self love being a worthwhile state of being. The modern church teaches that we are not deserving of anything good, and that se...

Medieval Concepts of Love, Sex, Marriage, and The Bible

This could be seen, for example, in the practices of the ancient Egyptians, whose culture remained stable for a long period of tim...

Benjamin Franklin and Jonathan Edwards

on that he believes in the Presbyterian concept of Predestination -- "From my childhood up, my mind had been wont to be full of ob...

Contemporary Slavery and Philosophical Concepts

the buying and selling of human beings. How would a Kantian analyze the ethics of slavery? How might a utilitarian, a social con...

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte and Concepts of Love and Family

character, was treated fairly well by the family, but after Mr. Earnshaws death he is used and ridiculed by Hindley, Catherines br...

Love Theme Compared as Reflected in Literature of Emily and Charlotte Bronte

specifically, it was an obsession as opposed to true love. What distinguishes these from each other is the element of personal sa...

Philosophy Questions and Religion

for example, would exist even if there were no human beings there to see it, but not that colour was an independent spiritual form...

Metaphysics As a Guide to Morals by Iris Murdoch

looked at in the context of history and of the study of philosophy. II. Metaphysics Metaphysics is an abstract part of philos...

Ideological Comparison of Henry David Thoreau and Frederick Douglass

(Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass An American Slave, 2001 and See Also Thoreau, 1993). This comparative essay examines ...

Government Authority

the government have the right to act? By what measure can one say that an existing government is a rightful one? Hobbess...

Erich Fromm, Karl Marx, and a Contemporary Concept of Human Nature

the most important fact for the student to understand is what Fromm explains in the following section of Marxs Concept of Man (196...

Labor Theories of Adam Smith and Karl Marx Theory

increased productivity stimulates market growth, if the market is such that it can absorb the growth. The cumulative effect of the...

Lord Byron's Poems and the Metaphors of Love and Fame

more likely that they will remember and personally value the days of their youth. Byron takes a strong stand in representing thi...

Romantic Hero Sir Lancelot

without peer (Spivack and Lynne 95). Lancelot was originally introduced to readers in French poet Chretien de Troyes Lancelot or...

Analysis of 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer and 'Tenth Tale' by Giovanni Boccaccio

Virginity is fine but wives are not condemned; the Apostle said that my husband would be my debtor, and I have power over his body...

Philosophical Comparison of Adam Smith, John Maynard Keynes, and Thomas Malthus

towards a decrease; while the price of provisions would at the same time tend to rise" (Malthus PG). People of that time disagree...

Labor According to Georg Hegel and Karl Marx

In eleven pages this paper compares the labor views expressed by Georg Hegel in Phenomenology of Spirit with those contained in Th...

Defending Platonic Philosophy and the Human Soul's Immortality

In eight pages this paper defends Plato's assertion regarding the immortality of the human soul with references made to his text P...

Philosophical Issues of Being and Becoming

In five pages this report examines the qualities of being human in terms of being and becoming in the individual and incorporates ...

Self Sacrifice in The Crucible by Arthur Miller

In an essay consisting of five pages John Proctor's self sacrifice and the inspiration it represents in love's power to withstand ...

Choice and its Conundrums

Citizen." Lucille Clifton This is very much an "acceptance of choice" poem; or the "choosing for the sake of others" poem. It ...

Leibniz and Newton

This paper consists of seven pages and examines how calculus was founded by the ideas formulated by Newton and Leibniz in a consid...

Questions on Plato's Meno, Apology, Crito, and Euthyphro Answered

In five pages this paper examines four of Plato's dialogues in order to provide answers to various questions. There are no other ...

State Implications of Leadership, Education, and Plato's 'Allegory of the Cave'

In 5 pages this paper discusses how leadership and education can have implications for the state in a consideration of Plato's fam...

'Form of the Good' by Plato and the Taoism of Lao Tzu

of just what human nature represents in relation to mans actions. It has long been postulated that human nature is bound by defen...

Comparing Aristotle and Plato

the immortal soul so that man can survive (PG). The mortal and the immortal soul were each housed in different areas in the body (...

Aphra Behn's Love Poetry of the Renaissance

In five pages this paper analyzes the social commentary featured in allusions to the physical love between women symbolized in Aph...