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Christ. The polytheistic society of ancient Greece was already moving toward belief in a single god by the time of Plato and his ...

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

human being for a short span of time. The cave allegory is quite well known and has been used by many to interpret Platos philosop...

to return to the cave because its familiar and comfortable? The answer to all these questions is "yes." (Allegory of the Cave, 2...

Ulman, 2005, PG). In order to construct a successful argument for a particular position, therefore, one has to first amass th...

This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...

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

what no republic may dare" (1784). Interestingly, about five years after the writing of this piece the French would take the heads...

In ten pages this tutorial paper imagines a lively dialogue between political philosophers including St. Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle...

for, but for which there were certainly problems. People too easily give up on it. In his work entitled The History of the Pelopon...

their own power and superiority. There was no real learning about the culture on the part of the Westerners, but rather a sense o...

top the list. The Catholic Church is often quoted as having said, "Give me a child until he is seven and he will always be Catholi...

the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...

Plato emphasizes the importance of maintaining self control in the face of eros, the importance of purging the passions of the fle...

a leader? How should a prince behave? Although the motive for Machiavelli writing this piece, and the application of this work to ...

right or correct, or is there something about that action itself that God recognizes, and for this reason declares the action corr...

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

is supplemented by innate elements of the intellect (DeLouth, 2002). This theory keyed into the nature-nurture debate. Skipping ...

a body" (Aristotle), Plato illustrates his inability to see beyond mankinds mortal connection, opting instead to focus upon a deci...

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

as the original Greek legal process aspired to achieve such status, it can readily be said that its integrity has been severely co...

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 ...

can be found in many church doctrines today (Fisher, 2006). Augustine was a seeker of truth throughout his life (Smitha, 1998). H...

the strongest objection is to defend human composition by illustrating how equating the two are like comparing apples and oranges....

is not that everyone just does what they think is right or what society tells them is right, but they sense that something good co...

as a teacher, is to free his students from the cave and metaphorically drag them into the sunlight. The selection from Phaedo reco...

of souls (Frost 104). It is possible that Plato was attempting to use popular belief to promote the teaching of more profound trut...

when it is expressed as a love of virtue, and justice when it is considered as one of many virtues. For Hobbes, self-interest "ta...

what is not. Descartes method of systematic doubt is to "reject as if absolutely false anything as to which I could imagine t...

womens lives were a measurement in comparison to these male priorities and values. The life of a woman, in other words, was that ...