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7 pages and 7 sources. This paper provides an overview of the basic elements of chaos theory and relates them to views of their a...

what was passing in the world around them, to the realm of re-presentative intellect. An external phenomenon is thus translated i...

In eleven pages this research paper contrasts and compares Plato's and Confucius's perceptions on the ruling state and society wit...

In five pages this paper discusses how Campbell's text distinguishes myth through art and also considers such topics as dreaming, ...

In eight pages this paper discusses how the three global religions of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Catholicism perceive reincarnation a...

In five pages this paper assesses equal rights for women in an examination of the Enlightenment theories expressed by Gouges, Woll...

in order to trade, with the understanding that China had many things that other parts of the world did not possess. It was also an...

cycles and reaches a point where they achieve a position where they no longer find themselves attached to desire, they will find N...

cultures. In addition, the kind of difficulties and trials faced by different ancient communities will also tend to be similar. On...

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...

as the Socratic dialogue that in many ways can be compared to todays constructivist approach to education in which he "drew forth ...

if "what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting like a good or bad man" ("Apology" 28b)(Plato 32-33). In regards to how ...

paths of their hair and the red dot or bindi that is displayed on the forehead" indicate they are sexually active in many ways (La...

works into three central periods: namely, early, middle and late and the Republic is generally regarded as a middle period work (W...

the notion of justice. This was essentially defined as doing the right thing. We note that one of the characters in the Republic i...

Republic, 2002). Therefore, according to this theory, knowledge of anything and understanding of anything comes from examination ...

84). However, Socrates is willing to concede that an individual can desire an evil thing if he mistakenly first evaluates it as go...

for example, would exist even if there were no human beings there to see it, but not that colour was an independent spiritual form...

youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...

who will eventually hold office and decide what to pursue in respect to issues like abortion, stem cell research and capital punis...

higher than those with iron. Plato argued that this deception was necessary in order to maintain a stable society, and we ca...

In three pages gender concepts are discussed in this consideration of how Plato regarded equality for women. Two sources are cite...

In five pages Plato considers whether or not virtue is a concept that can be taught in Protagoras and Meno. Twelve sources are ci...

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

What constitutes good is considered from a philosophical perspective in five pages with the focus being on the philosophies of Pla...

Aristotles concrete, scientific theories are more relevant than Platos deductive and abstract ideology. Aristotle believed...

be quantified. That is, ones life may be the truth, but it cannot be articulated as the truth. Still, there had been much debate b...

neighbor is henceforth called evil" (201). Evil does not come about by acts of omission but rather by deliberate intent. It is the...

of science there are two branches which are epistemology and metaphysics (Honderich, 1995). Science makes up an important part of ...

In six pages this research paper considers how the death concept was applied to the scheme of life through the classical Greek phi...