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Essays 391 - 420
What comes out of a courtroom is not necessarily truth, but which side argues best. The Sophists prided themselves on the use of p...
that there is just one objective right way of doing things and on the other hand, there are many truths, is an enormous difference...
Naucratis in Egypt there dwell one of the old gods of the country, the god to whom the bird called Ibis is sacred, his own name be...
between Psyche and her other two sisters was that Psyche was appreciably more beautiful than they. By all accounts, the sisters we...
Republic, 2002). Therefore, according to this theory, knowledge of anything and understanding of anything comes from examination ...
terms of a high human being, one may contend that it is the spiritual being--the priests, the rabbis, the ministers--who are reall...
he means that this should apply to the average politician. Certainly, wisdom is seen as including morality. In terms of knowledge ...
superior to the beasts, in fact, quite the contrary" (Michel Eyguem de Montaigne (1533-1592)). In this we see that Montaigne wa...
dog, and then headed for the door. She waddled. Her granddaughter who she rarely sees, Allison, laughs and calls her a duck. Veron...
the standards of Christian piety that were expected. From reading the Didache, the modern Christian can begin to see how the lab...
In nine and a half pages this paper considers how social values are reflected in the ancient literary works Phaedo, Euthyphro, Cri...
In a paper consisting of 5 pages, the author's apology for her lack of knowledge pertaining to the African American women's strugg...
of criminals and Christians. He argues it is the name that is hated, but all sects and philosophies carry the name of their origin...
knowledge which is only knowable and obtainable without the aide of the senses. Secondly, the Synoptic Gospels speak as Christ b...
from mans knowledge of truth; Aristotle believed that all men pursued happiness which came not from wealth but from contemplation ...
perception required for awareness is decidedly unique to human beings. Man looks upon his world as a direct reflection of him, hi...
teaching, in which he pretended not to know the answers to questions, so that students would come to understanding on their own. ...
pundits or the mainstream media happen to be handing out at the moment. This is a process that rekindles a "child-like--but by no ...
perception is that which we, as humans, have been trained to discern as a species, inasmuch as the certain quality of perception r...
beings. Euthyphro would of course agree with that sentiment and oppose Socrates on this matter. The gods of course are powerful. W...
As in most of his essays, Freud (1952), in Civilization and its Discontents, wrestles with human nature and why there is such a ch...
was that all humans are born with an inherent worth which he labeled human dignity (Mazur, 1993). He further felt that human dign...
David: So you can be popular? Allen: Yeah. David: Why do you want to be popular Allen? I know everyone wants to be popular in h...
quickly taking over the world, leaving no room for anything else" (Williams, Dustin and McKenney, 2004). In his view, we were leav...
First, Socrates, who is obviously the focus of the painting, is sitting up, still teaching as shown by his raised left hand. Hes m...
if they were not a part of society then it would be obvious that God did not exist. In relationship to what other philosophers fro...
and is not open to the charge of flattery" (Plato). While Socrates then discusses the love of youth, possibly referring to having ...
The writer discusses the moral and ethical positions of several philosophers including Ayer, Smith, Mackie, Socrates and Glaucon. ...
always do the good" and, therefore, is someone goes astray, it is because they lack the knowledge of how to "act rightly" (Shiraev...
ethical theory that supports killing off twice as many people to save half as many because you like them better. That is unethica...