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In ten pages this paper examines Plato's views on leadership and human nature as they manifest themselves in his Theory of Forms. ...

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...

perfect, despite what we observe. Forms are beyond this material world, for nothing that we can grasp in this world is perfect."3 ...

citizen was guaranteed the right to be heard in an Athenian court. Since the government structure was founded on the principle th...

close relationships over great distances and for a long period of time, indefinitely, even with separations and loss of contact" (...

was that they were certain and immutable. Also, knowledge must have as its objective that which is genuinely real as compared to t...

Indians, but rather how scholarship can lead an historian to this answer. What is her conclusion to this overriding issue? Over...

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

attempt to free themselves. What he has realized is that what they had seen all along on the wall of the cave were mere representa...

thought that the Theory of Forms was useless when it came to explaining the material world "because the connection between the two...

most part. He was clearly setting himself up as some sort of martyr or individual who would ultimately bring about change to the s...

she proved to me as I proved to him that, by my own showing, Love was neither fair nor good. " Here, the idea that love is powerfu...

know what they, themselves, look like. One day, one of the people breaks free from the chains and makes it back to the outside o...

of subjective satisfaction (Seifert, 2003). Moral goodness just is. One looks at a baby or a puppy and thinks that these living th...

have merit, they are essentially inapplicable to our contemporary concerns regarding knowledge. In other words, while knowledge m...

living" (Plato Crito 18-19). II. ABORTION To reach true happiness, Plato believed people must strive for a contentment tha...

senate dinner, or basically a drinking party after the meal. Though it is certain that Plato took literary license with the dialog...

can one know what is beautiful or what is ugly? There must be some sort of shared experience. Plato uses a cave allegory--somethi...

people must strive for a knowledge that only comes from being true to ones own choice. According to Plato, men and women both hav...

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

noble. Socrates was doing the right thing. Today, as people wrestle with unjust rules and laws, there are some who simply follow ...

off than those who remain in the cave. Before delving into an analysis, it pays to explore the allegory as laid out by Plato. Wh...

if he has acquired the knowledge he could not have acquired it in this life, unless he has been taught geometry; for he may be mad...

the central square of a small South American town," where twenty Indians are about to be executed by government soldiers in order ...

for the student of psychology to develop a well-rounded and complete understanding of the discipline, it is necessary to study bot...

would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images" (Plato, 1969. p. 409). He then likens the philosopher to a prisoner who ...

possible fat man in that doorway; and again, the possible bald man in that doorway. Are they the same possible men, or two possibl...

is clear that each of them has some wish in his mind that he cant articulate; instead, like an oracle, he half-grasps what he want...

in order to insure passage to the underworld. The Underworld in this mythology was not a particularly happy place; it was a gloomy...

truly understand Gods word: "I ask Thee, my God: pardon my sins, and as Thou didst grant to Thy servant to speak those words, gran...