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James Burke's 'The Day the Universe Changed'

The first six chapters of the text are consideredi within this 5 page paper, which include events that changed the human race fore...

John Locke and Knowledge of the External Universe

In five pages this paper discusses the primary and secondary qualities illustrated through John Locke's example of the almond in a...

Plato's Life and Philosophical Dialogues

in the Peloponnesian War, which ended in a resounding defeat for Athens in 404 B.C. (Levinson ix-x). While it can be assumed that...

Justice in Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince and Plato's The Republic

he considered to be the most significant reason society is its own opposing force. According to Hobbes, subjects of the omnipoten...

Type Ia Supernova and Universe Expansion

In five pages this report considers the expension of the cosmos and the speed with which this takes place as evidenced by what has...

False Thinking According to Plato's Theatetus

Knowledge is true judgment. Socrates and Theatetus are talking about the nature of knowledge. Theatetus suggests that mathematic...

Book 4 of Plato's Republic, 'Justice of the City'

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...

3 Thought Levels in Plato's Republic and Dante's Inferno

In five pages this paper discusses the connection between man's sins and the soul in this analysis of three levels of thought repr...

The Unexpected Universe by Loren Eiseley

In six pages nature as it is philosophically considered in 2 essays in this text by Loren Eiseley is examined. There are no other...

Application of Plato's Metaphysical Tradition

In ten pages this paper applies the metaphysical tradition to an analysis of Existentialism and Basic Writings by Friedrich Nietzs...

Comparative Analysis of Plato's Apology and I.F. Stone's The Trial of Socrates

threatening. Instead of turning the anger they felt inward, they unleashed their fury outward onto Socrates, a convenient scapego...

Plato's Writings and Security Disturbance

In five pages this paper examines how individual strength increases as a result of security disturbance according to the writings ...

Forms, Justice, and Plato's Philosophy

texts The Republic and Crito, Plato learned his lessons well. In both works, Plato theorizes what justice is through deductive re...

Allegories in The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan

to friends to see what their feelings were about what he had written. He explains that some told him it was wonderful while other...

Meno and Plato's Arguments

they have experienced the fact that the truth simply is and is not an "issue" or understanding that can be discovered. "Meno" As ...

Comparing Plato's Crito with Ibsen's Torvald

Tovald must deal with those of his subordinates. Despite his law background, he is employed as a bank manager and has a number of...

John Barth's Use of Allegory in 'Giles Goat Boy'

There is, as is the case with any novel, a clear power of theme behind this comical tale of ones journey as a goat. Many have argu...

Use of Allegory in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

events during his and previous eras in history" (Tolisano, 2002; tolisano.htm). In better understanding how Chaucer did use all...

Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and its Allegories

the next line. Its primary purpose is to establish a series of repetition in the name of sensible progression. For those words a...

Allegory and the English Morality Play Everyman

of them all. The allegory of "Everyman", which may also be defined as a parable or a metaphor, is based on what it is that "Everym...

Allegory of Social Dissolution Lord of the Flies by William Golding

with him are Piggy, the most intellectual of the boys; Simon, the most spiritual, and the twins Sam and Eric, who are later referr...

Theme of Pleasure in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Plato's The Republic, and Thomas More's Utopia

negative aspect to this competition, or that they would sabotage one anothers efforts out of jealousy....

Saint Augustine of Hippo and Plato's Influence

Wisdom, and the Word of God. Therefore, intellectual knowledge is not the result of the gathering of data by the intellect, but a ...

Analyzing The Call of the Wild by Jack London

up by identifying Buck as a dog, but throughout the course of the text, the complex dog-hero is amazingly human in terms of his pe...

Political Allegory Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

presented for him. He witnesses the sport of rope dancing. In this sport, a candidate for high governmental office balances himsel...

John Ford's Films and Christian Allegory

individuals who had come before him. At the crux of the journey is the fact that the main character risks his life for his religio...

The Forms of Allegory in Lord of the Flies by William Golding

we see that the boys have perhaps just been initiated into the real world of men. They have bridged the gap between boyhood and ma...

Psyche, Cupid, and Plato's Definition of Love

between Psyche and her other two sisters was that Psyche was appreciably more beautiful than they. By all accounts, the sisters we...

The Unexpected Universe by Loren Eiseley

gently touched a strand of the web. The spider immediately started checking lines in the web. The intrusion was unprecedented in ...

Carlos Fuentes' 'The Death of Artemio Cruz'

do this type of disjointed reminisce. The story gives a great illustration of how setting can become as real and subtle a charac...