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In ten pages this paper discusses how knowledge is considered via three types of philosophical arguments in The Republic by Plato....

In five pages this research paper analyzes the illusion of the shadows viewed by the prisoners in the cave allegory featured in th...

seen, but somewhat obscured by the appearance of shadows. The dialogue commences further with Socrates discussion of the divisi...

In nine pages this paper examines how justice was represented by Plato in such works as The Laws, The Gorgias, and The Republic. ...

In eight pages this paper analyzes how Plato's methods as they involve truth are considered in an examination of this trio of dial...

as its model. Things are intellectually and emotionally captured by the understanding, not by the senses. The "Forms" of Things ...

of the perceptions of others. It is only the question of whether or not seeming and being are one in the same or whether there is...

of life, Socrates contends that reason is as well. Socrates considers the difference between those things that can be understood ...

In six pages this paper considers the self interest and justice arguments of Thrasymachus and Socrates in The Republic. One sourc...

or so it might seem. But when they return; of course, they are blinded. They may know all and they may have seen all-- but perhaps...

In nine pages this paper considers Plato's views regarding the soul's immortality as featured in three of his dialogues. There ar...

Fact versus fiction is the focus of this analysis of theses classical texts in an essay consisting of two pages. There are no oth...

In 6 pages this paper critically analyzes Socrates argument regarding justice in this text and the use of logical deduction by Pla...

many partners and purveyors will be required to furnish them. One person will turn to another to supply a particular want, and fo...

body defines justice that makes it so. Therefore, as Plato points out, rulers must be able to distinguish between justice or inju...

"clearness and accuracy" (336d). He elaborates in section 338c that while there are different forms of governments, each one "defi...

much like ourselves. As this suggests, Socrates means to make it clear that this allegory has relevance to the realities of everyd...

advent of history. When women were allowed to work in the factories during World War II, it was found that the women were actually...

importance and children were to be guarded from superfluous information to come from for example poetry and literature. Rather, th...

to be achieved. This scenario, by its very nature, assured the manifestation of orderliness and moderation rather than the less a...

employee believes a child is abused, they must call the authorities. If a child has a fight in school, the latest trend is to file...

of souls (Frost 104). It is possible that Plato was attempting to use popular belief to promote the teaching of more profound trut...

Essentially, the allegory likens those who remain unaware of forms to prisoners chained in a cave, and they cannot turn their head...

can be found in many church doctrines today (Fisher, 2006). Augustine was a seeker of truth throughout his life (Smitha, 1998). H...

was to start writing down all the things he could remember that Socrates had said, writing down conversations he had hear and also...

different aspects of individual virtue can be seen to be included. Meno offers the suggestion that virtue can be defined as the wi...

Brian Vickers portrays Plato as an intellectual Odysseus, stealthily stealing the rhetorical arsenal of the sophists and using it ...

In five pages the differing political views between Plato and his one time philosophy student Aristotle are discussed with Plato's...

In nine pages this report compares the philosophies on human nature as conceptualized by Niccolo Machiavelli and Plato with Plato'...

This research report looks at how Descartes would feel about Plato's ideas. Would he agree with Plato in his ideas about death? Th...