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In a paper consisting of three pages it is contemplated what Russell's reaction to Plato's efforts to account for nature of realit...

In five pages this paper examines youth and adult education according to Plato's philosophy. Three sources are listed in the bibl...

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

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...

like knowledge itself, is secure. Indeed, according to Plato correct opinion is a guide to knowledge. To be correct, opinions th...

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

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...

like Hades and the underworld; Tiresias the blind seer; and other references to death and dying (Plato). They decide they have to...

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

soul, as imaged by Plato, is made up of the qualities of reason, spirit and desire or appetite (Honderich, et al, 1995). The "reas...

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...

for which they are talented. Here, it is thought that the rulers who are willing to rule, who go into the cave, who are vocal, are...

fundamental importance in the Republic of the metaphor of descent and its connection to the two great themes of birth and death, a...

the preexistence of the soul, and the separate existence of forms work together or not? Thats a lot of questions to tackle, and to...

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

the lyrics in modern songs, and in essence, the poets of today are Eminem and Jay Zee and Beyonce. Lyrics to emanate from these ar...

three characters (a stranger from Athens; Cleinias, from Crete; and Megillus, a Lacedaemonian) are discussing their various types ...

suggest that both love and hate can be taught (Plato). We can further extrapolate from that to conclude that if a nation is in har...

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...

at once managed for himself to become one of the envoys to the king ; upon arrival, having seduced his wife, with her help, he lai...

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

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

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

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...

reaching true conclusions and therefore may use their knowledge of language and logic to confuse the average person on the issues ...

between the citizens. Taken together, the guardians are people who are skilled in governing certain areas. However, these two type...

how ones intellect cannot be considered a gender. In other words, intelligence is intelligence regardless of where it is housed. ...

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