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

in order to be just. Many are familiar with the tales of Sodom and Gomorrah from the bible. They understand that many cities had ...

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

Clouds by Aristophanes. Reasonably, Socrates points out that the character in the play speaks nonsense and should not be confused...

leaders create charts, statistics and graphs that have at their core the notion that an organization is like a complex machine tha...

the physical in a dramatic and practical way. While Aristotle saw the heart as just a physical organ, he had an idea that seemed t...

is a case for communism at least for the lower classes. The supporting premises for that conclusion have already been noted and ge...

good gifts to their friends and family but often do not have the expenses which would allow them to do so. However, people may use...

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

ideas. As we shall soon see, through these speeches Plato seems to have reasoned out how it is that mankind make their way from th...

a weapon to the hands of a madman is obviously unjust. Taylor (2003) comments on how this refutation of Cephalus position demonstr...

lawyers, uncaring nurses and pedophile clergy is to cut back on scientific research--a tenuous conclusion at best. Where the art...

Basically, evolutionary theory states that life began on earth as single-celled organisms and evolved over millions of eons to mor...

and aesthetic projects of resistance and revolution, recooperation and universalism all played an integral role within the ultimat...

In five pages Socrates' concepts of ethics, piety, and justice are discussed as they are represented in Plato's Crito and Euthyp...

In five pages this paper discusses how human standards can be lived up to in a consideration of the Old Testament's unrighteousnes...

This 5 page paper examines the way in which one can use the Socratic method to find the truth. The writer also discusses the conce...

role in this respect. Plato held that the key agent in any sort of behavior but especially ethical or moral behavior (or lack of t...

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

In five pages this paper examines Socrates' dialogue with Thrasymachus and considers his concept of justice as described in Plato'...

The writer reviews The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan, in which the scientists challenges many current theories. The writer arg...

In three pages this paper considers how Plato's text reveals virtue to be not a single entity but rather deeply connected to other...

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

In five pages this paper compares Plato's perspectives on democracy with Marx's concepts of capitalism. There are 4 other sources...

are being made in the functions of different parts of the brain, for instance, which give us much greater insight into areas like ...

his previous beliefs had rested, since he intends to analyse philosophically whether these beliefs are in fact valid, and if they ...

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...

Bill Clinton says: "I am delighted that so many students are here today." Bill Clinton is a liar. Therefore, he is not delighted ...

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

In ten pages this report discusses how moral theories address contemporary life issues with such ethical concepts as virtue, care,...