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a democracy. Plato contended that it would be impossible within a democracy to have the kind of harmony and societal unit...

be studied scientifically in order to derive the most rational, economic and efficient means of administering policy. The form is...

also believed in one realm. Spinoza writes: "By God, I mean a Being absolutely infinite -- that is, a substance consisting in inf...

led to alter his position. The old philosophers gave much attention to the issue of knowledge and epistemology. Aristotle ...

Lysias topic is love, which in the ancient Greek world referred to the love of a man for another man. Homosexuality was practiced...

human nature is bound by the weakness of mans character? In short, Platos (1979) freed prisoner is himself, the cave reflects the...

qualities in the face of conflict or challenge. "Deliberate effort and the taking of thoughtful pains are required...Education, a...

he make it eternal anyway? Many people think of the universe as something that was eternal in the first place, irrespective of wha...

not go to reincarnation necessarily, but rather to the idea that death does not end life. On the other hand, New Ageism, Buddhism,...

surely bless you and make your descendant as numerous as the stars in the sky." Because Abraham never questioned a divine commandm...

can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees it as symbolic of humans o...

subject of forms. While Plato held a dual realms theory, Aristotle saw form and matter as existing in the same realm. In discussi...

interprets the ideal of freedom and to what extent they live in their own psychological prisons. Social freedom means that one wil...

as well as the people. When one views the former President of the United States, Bill Clinton, for example, one hardly thinks ab...

Introduction The issues surrounding abortion are complex to say the least. People are polarized on the issue...

around, arousing them and persuading them. He illustrates how people are often irritated by him because they feel they have been r...

also supported what was known as the Theory of Ideas, which mainly stated that archetypal ideas (which rest in the universal)(Plan...

for, but for which there were certainly problems. People too easily give up on it. In his work entitled The History of the Pelopon...

life fulfillment and that a disabled individual should be allowed to die because their quality of life will not allow them to find...

sported the slogan "Challenge Authority." To many, it had little meaning. That is because the majority of people are sheep. They d...

leg only" (Plato). If this were true, if there were only one process in regards to life-death, then everything would ultimately co...

the more metaphysical idea that the world of the present is known as the physical world that one is able to perceive using the sen...

is only preserved as a term of reproach" (Plato). He illustrates how the figures of men and women and the third figure were round ...

the circumstance. In other words, if something can go wrong with it, that sense is considered inconsequential to the final outcome...

Socrates frequently alluded was the basis for his debates with Gorgias, contending that the degree of abstraction pursued by thoug...

also wrote that one could live justly only if they lived in a just society (Beck, n.d.). Plato had a number of caveats about a jus...

had to be obtained by directing the students mind toward the discovery of what is real and important, then allowing them to deduce...

of innate knowledge, he was adamant that nothing could be learned except through experience and sensory input: "How comes [the mi...

and ones existence. To reach true happiness, Plato contended that people must strive for a contentment that only comes from being...

that the story being told is one that has been re-told so often that it is little more than hearsay, and it is from this "story of...