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individual to the spiritual and the universe. According to the scala amoris, then, love is that which in its highest and purest se...

n.d.). Plato did talk about God, in Timaeus, Plato said that if God made the world as perfect then the soul must be perfect, also ...

This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...

and with that has come an interest in spirituality itself, outside of any religious context. It is this search for a truth that m...

humans cannot readily draw on the human collective conscious, or the knowledge that exists in the universe, they had a glimpse of ...

In a paper that consists of eight pages Plato's interpretation of the soul and its parts are explored along with a discussion of t...

to the outside, the cave becomes a type of conduit, or birth canal which brings him into the life of actual knowledge. What one ca...

human being from conception to death is encapsulated in a pod. In Platos Cave the only thing that they can see is...

Although biblical, the story provides a warning in that perhaps a little knowledge can be harmful. Another point of view is that k...

are afraid because ignorant, and perceive the pain and not the benefits; nor do they apprehend that a sick soul is worse than a si...

from the fact that I realized that I knew nothing. A man of my era named Chaerephon once asked the Oracle at Delphi is there w...

(Washington State University, 2004). Plato asserts that our perceptions are essentially "shadows" of real objects. In ot...

of death, as well as the mystery of death. This establishes a foundation from which we can learn, especially considering that Nula...

would be clearly dependent upon the eye of the beholder. Therefore, the conclusions were not judgments, per se, but were response...

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...

change and that personality stays the same. In order to comprehend why this is not the case, and understand the thesis which also ...

philosophical thought begs to differ. In the pre-Plato period, for example, the prevailing belief was that pleasure was immediate ...

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

you not, such as you are, get your following together and sail beyond the seas? Did you not from your a far country carry off a lo...

a humans body. It sought to find pleasure and to find sustenance. "These appetites should not be allowed, to enslave the other ele...

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

profit than seeking knowledge. The schools headmaster was Socrates, and Strepsiades hopes that Phidippides will be able to apply ...

In six pages this paper analyzes the contention of Socrates that an 'unexamined life is not worth living' as this view is represen...

So for Plato, this idea extended into both personal and political ramifications. He reasoned that when an individual was doing th...

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...

call to action. Bruskin explains that "The essence of the period is that we were galvanized to do something." (32). While docume...

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...

Plato's Apology and Aristotle's Poetics are both considered masterpieces of ancient Greek philosophy. This report compares the two...

on this subject might want to explore various opinions on democracy and society. Socrates claimed that democracy--because it is ...