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In ten pages this tutorial paper imagines a lively dialogue between political philosophers including St. Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle...
who will eventually hold office and decide what to pursue in respect to issues like abortion, stem cell research and capital punis...
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...
Ulman, 2005, PG). In order to construct a successful argument for a particular position, therefore, one has to first amass th...
also believed in one realm. Spinoza writes: "By God, I mean a Being absolutely infinite -- that is, a substance consisting in inf...
Christ. The polytheistic society of ancient Greece was already moving toward belief in a single god by the time of Plato and his ...
of science there are two branches which are epistemology and metaphysics (Honderich, 1995). Science makes up an important part of ...
that is permanent and immutable. It is this world that is more real; the world of change is merely an imperfect image of this worl...
This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...
In six pages this paper discusses the strengths and weaknesses of various philosophical theories with the utilitarianism of John S...
In five pages these rhetorical forms as devised by Aristotle are discussed along with accompanying examples and an explanation of ...
a familiar kind of Socratic dialogue about justice, just as the Euthyphro is about piety and the Meno is about virtue. The Republi...
This research report looks at how Descartes would feel about Plato's ideas. Would he agree with Plato in his ideas about death? Th...
In nine pages this report compares the philosophies on human nature as conceptualized by Niccolo Machiavelli and Plato with Plato'...
In five pages Plato by Robert W. Hall is analyzed. There are no other sources listed....
In two pages this paper examines philosophy's role and human activity purpose as well as Socrates' defense as represented in Apolo...
In five pages this argumentative essay employs these philosophical writings in support of the notion that the worst type of govern...
seen, but somewhat obscured by the appearance of shadows. The dialogue commences further with Socrates discussion of the divisi...
In four pages this paper discusses the soul's immortality as represented in Socrates' arguments that are featured in Meno by Plato...
In eight pages this paper discusses social reformation in a contrast and comparison of the philosophies of Plato and Confucius....
Essentially, the allegory likens those who remain unaware of forms to prisoners chained in a cave, and they cannot turn their head...
had to be obtained by directing the students mind toward the discovery of what is real and important, then allowing them to deduce...
was to start writing down all the things he could remember that Socrates had said, writing down conversations he had hear and also...
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...
can be found in many church doctrines today (Fisher, 2006). Augustine was a seeker of truth throughout his life (Smitha, 1998). H...
This essay reports on three adult learning theories and relates them to the writer's experience. The theories are Freire, Mezirow,...
In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at American and Greek democracies. The Republic of Plato is also presented in summary-f...
terms of a high human being, one may contend that it is the spiritual being--the priests, the rabbis, the ministers--who are reall...
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...