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In three pages this paper considers whether or not learning is new information or simply recollection of past experience according...

In four pages this paper analyzes the harp analogy of Socrates that is featured in Plato's Phaedo. There are no other sources lis...

In two pages this paper considers how Socrates presents the soul's immortality in Phaedo by Plato. There are no other sources lis...

In six pages this paper discusses the philosophical distinctions Socrates made between these two concepts as presented in Plato's ...

In six pages this paper considers Plato's text in its representation of the evil and unhappiness of the 'unjust' according to Socr...

another thing: ? young men of the richer classes, who have not much to do, come about me of their own accord; they like to hear th...

In five pages this report discusses the extent human effort can result in improvement in a consideration of Letters from the Stoic...

This paper consists of four pages and evaluates the guilty verdict Socrates received in terms of whether or not it represented the...

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

In three pages this paper discusses how Socrates can be studied by reading the dialogues of his most famous student. There are no...

First, Socrates, who is obviously the focus of the painting, is sitting up, still teaching as shown by his raised left hand. Hes m...

ghost, a phantom-true, but no real breath of life" (23.122-23). This minimal survival apparently depends on the appropriate funera...

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...

could be products of society, but never the causes, or it would alter the objectivity of sociology as a science (Hamilton, 1995). ...

and is not open to the charge of flattery" (Plato). While Socrates then discusses the love of youth, possibly referring to having ...

millennia worth of philosophical comprehension of mans existence. For those who depend upon traditional practice to shepherd them...

student sees in relationship to what the image can present: "but of the ideas which they resemble; not of the figures which they d...

always do the good" and, therefore, is someone goes astray, it is because they lack the knowledge of how to "act rightly" (Shiraev...

individuality and happiness are intrinsically related, as the achievement of personal happiness is associated with obtaining the i...

Kamath (2007) goes through all the possible outcomes regarding this dilemma. He explains that if the operation goes forth, there a...

ethical theory that supports killing off twice as many people to save half as many because you like them better. That is unethica...

wish, they have other freedoms that are perhaps not as obvious. Brave New World supports the hedonistic view. That is, Huxley (199...

of fire (The New York Times, 2008). He lived during the late fifth century BC (The New York Times, 2008). The Eleatic school for i...

The writer discusses the moral and ethical positions of several philosophers including Ayer, Smith, Mackie, Socrates and Glaucon. ...

has many flaws. There is question as to whether or not the method really gets to the truth at all. In fact, one has to wonder whet...

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 ...

knew nothing and was far from wise, he sets upon a course of action to find someone wiser than himself to offer to the Oracle as r...

perception is that which we, as humans, have been trained to discern as a species, inasmuch as the certain quality of perception r...

distance. In some way one can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees ...

why so many people had to suffer. No matter the cause, the gods were not looked on with the reverence they had once enjoyed, and t...