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should also make note of how "King Rat" calls attention to the limits of administration and the influence of the political realm w...

ideas. As we shall soon see, through these speeches Plato seems to have reasoned out how it is that mankind make their way from th...

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...

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

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

philosophical thought begs to differ. In the pre-Plato period, for example, the prevailing belief was that pleasure was immediate ...

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 ...

was that they were certain and immutable. Also, knowledge must have as its objective that which is genuinely real as compared to t...

pleas, Socrates will not hear of any escape plans. He points out that, even though the sentence was unjust, it was perfectly legal...

perfect, despite what we observe. Forms are beyond this material world, for nothing that we can grasp in this world is perfect."3 ...

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 six pages good and evil are examined along with Plato's assertion that evil is not knowingly committed by man. There are no ot...

living" (Plato Crito 18-19). II. ABORTION To reach true happiness, Plato believed people must strive for a contentment tha...

know what they, themselves, look like. One day, one of the people breaks free from the chains and makes it back to the outside o...

attempt to free themselves. What he has realized is that what they had seen all along on the wall of the cave were mere representa...

to the average man who does not embark on philosophical pursuits, and does not wonder how the world began but accepts the explanat...

the preexistence of the soul, and the separate existence of forms work together or not? Thats a lot of questions to tackle, and to...

most part. He was clearly setting himself up as some sort of martyr or individual who would ultimately bring about change to the s...

like knowledge itself, is secure. Indeed, according to Plato correct opinion is a guide to knowledge. To be correct, opinions th...

she proved to me as I proved to him that, by my own showing, Love was neither fair nor good. " Here, the idea that love is powerfu...

if he has acquired the knowledge he could not have acquired it in this life, unless he has been taught geometry; for he may be mad...

insanity, which becomes her only way she can avoid the domination that threatens to totally suffocate her individuality. In his di...

numbers. Sometimes, those who digitize these books number the paragraphs, but often they do not. Most of the books in Project Gute...

three characters (a stranger from Athens; Cleinias, from Crete; and Megillus, a Lacedaemonian) are discussing their various types ...

suggest that both love and hate can be taught (Plato). We can further extrapolate from that to conclude that if a nation is in har...

individual to the spiritual and the universe. According to the scala amoris, then, love is that which in its highest and purest se...

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...

Marx, but he does not dismiss the idea that the movement has something to do with the Orpheus legend. Rather than Orpheus soothing...

and with that has come an interest in spirituality itself, outside of any religious context. It is this search for a truth that m...