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

In five pages the way in which Aristotle perceived the golden mean as described in Politics is discussed and also compared with Th...

what it is that you "can do," and then doing that for the good of the group - in this case the city. The unification of the virtu...

for which they are talented. Here, it is thought that the rulers who are willing to rule, who go into the cave, who are vocal, are...

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...

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

like Hades and the underworld; Tiresias the blind seer; and other references to death and dying (Plato). They decide they have to...

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...

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

In twelve pages Plato's dialogues The Republic, Phaedrus, and Gorgias are examined in an analysis of how the philosopher conceptua...

of quickness and penetration, piercing easily below the clumsy platitudes of Thrasymachus to the real difficulty; he turns out to ...

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...

concepts that are far beyond his level of comprehension, only to ultimately be able to process the information. To reach true m...

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

do good, not evil to their friends (Plato, 2002). As this indicates, Polemarchus works hard to defend his fathers "rule of thumb...

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

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

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

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

This paper discusses different parts of Plato's Republic. There is a discussion of natural law legal theory and legal positivist t...

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...

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

are not necessarily the same words (or meanings) and as a result, the photographer can argue that the purpose of the import was no...

which sight resides is the sun? No. Yet of all the organs of sense the eye is the most like the sun? By far the most like" (204)...

In seven pages the process of making ethical decisions is discussed in terms of the definitions provided in The Holy Bible and The...

In seven pages this paper discusses how contemporary society defines sexual harassment and considers how the law addresses victimi...

blacks in the U.S. and the Caribbean alike (Everybodys: The Caribbean-American Magazine, 1998). Ebonics has invoked considerable ...

still perhaps not arriving at solid answers when his friend tells him he has to leave. Socrates tells him, "Alas! my companion, an...

In this paper of fifteen pages it is Plato that is accused of treason in this new version of 'Apology' and must defend himself aga...