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Essays 91 - 120
that was determined by human will, in that people choose whether or not to keep their promises (Hobbes, 1982). Those that keep th...
draw on the human collective conscious, or the knowledge that exists in the universe, they had a glimpse of it once, and that expl...
society exist without democracy? Many theorists today would think not, and while many enlightened individuals could argue that mer...
Yet is it just to have such a rule in place? Furthermore is a just for a professional football team to be fined, simply because th...
his writings (Levinson x). Socrates would continue to dominate Platos personal and professional lives for years to come, and woul...
original thirteen colonies on which the new United States of America was founded removed their approval of being governed by the B...
this pint he is, in essence, pleading for his life and states, "I dare say that you may feel irritated at being suddenly awakened ...
the best" (the literal definition of aristocracy) was to be achieved. This scenario, by its very nature, assured the manifestatio...
they know was agreed upon in full assembly; and should it be decided that this is not so, the poor have discovered a hundred excus...
offer a profusion of pleasures... injustice pays better than justice" (364b). Next, Socrates appeared to shift gears and direct t...
motives of ambition -- it has no name in common use that I know of; let us call it timarchy or timocracy -- and then go on to ol...
In six pages this paper analyzes The Republic by Plato in a consideration of how women's roles are portrayed. There is 1 source c...
classes in the State severally did their own business; and also thought to be temperate and valiant and wise by reason of certain ...
for Plato and are directly related to that capacity of understanding. Physical things of the world must, of necessity, have bodily...
the notion of justice. This was essentially defined as doing the right thing. We note that one of the characters in the Republic i...
works into three central periods: namely, early, middle and late and the Republic is generally regarded as a middle period work (W...
In fifteen pages this report considers a review of literature in a discussion of whether or not Plato founded totalitarianism in h...
In nine pages this paper examines how justice was represented by Plato in such works as The Laws, The Gorgias, and The Republic. ...
In twenty pages this paper discusses the failed efforts of Plato to sufficiently train Dionysus the Younger to become a philosophe...
In ten pages this paper discusses how knowledge is considered via three types of philosophical arguments in The Republic by Plato....
seen, but somewhat obscured by the appearance of shadows. The dialogue commences further with Socrates discussion of the divisi...
In five pages this research paper analyzes the illusion of the shadows viewed by the prisoners in the cave allegory featured in th...
In four pages this paper discusses equality in terms of opportunity, economics, government, and politics as considered in The Repu...
In eight pages this paper examines the contemporary government relevance of Socrates' views as portrayed in The Republic by Plato....
In five pages this paper examines The Republic in terms of what meaning Plato attached to the 'myths of the metals' and considers ...
In four pages this paper examines the educational ideal of Utopia Plato presented in The Republic. There are no other sources lis...
In nine pages this paper examines the social utopia presided over by a philosopher king as described by Plato in The Republic. Th...
In three pages this paper discusses how the Athenians made class distinctions in a consideration of Socrates' noble myth depicted ...
means. The function of justice is to improve human nature, which is inherently constructive. Therefore, at a minimum, justice i...
In ten pages the political theory and government structural views of Thomas Hobbes and Plato are compared and contrasted as they a...