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background, the points which Gray (2001) makes are surprising to say the least. Gray (2001) sees the war we as a society are wagi...

They are, instead, robot-like in that they do what they are told and do not question the validity of the teachings. Instead, peopl...

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...

words, "how does one KNOW that this is the truth". Most of Socrates teaching took place on the steps of a Lyceum, much like an a...

that Pericles was a man who felt a powerful sense of duty to his city. He was, after all, an official who stood as one who support...

that can be grasped with the human mind, but not with human senses (Gill, 1996,p. 1). The first part of the Parmenides, Plato has...

the amount of knowledge that anyone has very little to do with doing things that are wrong. Now, understandably, we can see wher...

Brian Vickers portrays Plato as an intellectual Odysseus, stealthily stealing the rhetorical arsenal of the sophists and using it ...

no matter how insignificant or trite they may seem. However, it would seem that he believed that there were at least two types of ...

being proper, of conforming to contemporary uses and customs. These rules extend to practically every aspect of our lives. There...

is good (Frost 84). For Socrates, "a life which is always inquiring and trying to discover what is good is the best kind of life, ...

time. And, he was not content to attempt to dispel theories of old, but was also one to attempt the disruption of more modern appr...

Socrates ideas. He states that he will be Euthyphros student in these matters. Of course, it would seem that Socrates is being a b...

best and brightest citizens." After the candidates shake hands, the moderator presented the first topic for debate, that of taxat...

84). However, Socrates is willing to concede that an individual can desire an evil thing if he mistakenly first evaluates it as go...

youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...

classes in the State severally did their own business; and also thought to be temperate and valiant and wise by reason of certain ...

the soul. What the mind or soul once knew is raised to present awareness by a process of recollection aided by the technique of di...

own life? Not all philosophers would agree with the path he ultimately chose. First, it is important to keep in mind that practi...

for Plato and are directly related to that capacity of understanding. Physical things of the world must, of necessity, have bodily...

support for the notion that people must obey the laws of the place in which they are born. How is this accomplished? Aristotle d...

(2002) argument is based on his experiences as first a federal prosecutor, then a trial judge, and finally a California Superior C...

"Metamorphoses" and Socrates "Apology". While "Apology" is Platos account of Socrates trial and ultimate death it is also...

to shake off these social controls and become the master rather than the slave. This, he argues, is the true justice of nature: la...

as the Socratic dialogue that in many ways can be compared to todays constructivist approach to education in which he "drew forth ...

teaching, in which he pretended not to know the answers to questions, so that students would come to understanding on their own. ...

As in most of his essays, Freud (1952), in Civilization and its Discontents, wrestles with human nature and why there is such a ch...

was that all humans are born with an inherent worth which he labeled human dignity (Mazur, 1993). He further felt that human dign...

because it is supposed to produce truth in the end. The essence of this method is a process that usually begins with Socrates ask...

(Saxonhouse, 1998). This is something thought not to lead to violence, but rather to a profound gentleness (Saxonhouse, 1998). In ...