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of Nature. He has also noted that while the 20th century has involved a great deal of specialization, the 21st century will be a ...

For example, Bostick (1935) makes copious use of footnotes, drawing on the works of Plato and Xenophon, who were two of Socrates d...

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

could well be said that his acceptance of his brothers actions, despite his berating his brother, may have been the most important...

the objectivity he professed" (Lattimore xiii). As this postmodern revisionist view of Thucydides suggests, his historical accurac...

In six pages this paper discusses how the values of the societies of ancient Greece and Rome are reflected in such works of litera...

This 5 page paper summarizes the major themes of Thucydides' accounts of the Peloponnesian War. The bibliography lists the primary...

This 5 page paper argues that Thucydides' history of the Peloponnesian War states that the reason for the conflict was the politic...

In ten pages this paper contrasts and compares the hero's role in Sophocles' Antigone, Thucydides' The History of the Peloponnesia...

In five pages this paper discusses the effects and involvement of Athens in the ancient Mitylenian debate with Thucydides' texts c...

too saw that the people needed leadership. The general public was thought not quite capable of making the big decisions. While Mac...

of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit, within the bounds of th...

"Metamorphoses" and Socrates "Apology". While "Apology" is Platos account of Socrates trial and ultimate death it is also...

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

Conceptions of Virtue). Furthermore, it was Plato who argued that love was the essential ingredient in the good life because love...

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

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...

wiser (21a). This news confused Socrates greatly as he realized that he was not particularly wise. He, therefore, set out to find ...

teaching, in which he pretended not to know the answers to questions, so that students would come to understanding on their own. ...

In five pages this report considers Socrates' belief that an individual's foremost responsibility is to the state. There are no o...

(he disguised himself as a woman and attended rites which only women could witness). Socrates is being held responsible for the i...

cast them as slaves of the elite. This action of stripping an individuals inherent rights as a human being can be nothing other t...

in thought - that is, the faculty of saying what is possible and pertinent in given circumstances" (Aristotle). The fourth element...

in membership in many different kinds of social and civil organizations over the last two generations (Putnam, 1995). The decline ...

This essay is on Aristotle's "Politics" and how he saw the role of the city in human life. The writer relates his political thinki...

In a paper consisting of five pages the concepts of human good, the 'doctrine of the mean,' and 'phronesis' as presented in Books ...

John Stuart Mill presented his take on the law in On Liberty. This paper contrasts his view with Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics an...

In a research paper consisting of eight pages Aristotle's concept of human nature is examined along with the roles education and j...

In a report that consists of ten pages human nature is examined in a contrasting and comparison of Augustine's and Aristotle's phi...

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares these differing views on Socrates' trial for political subversion and execution. T...