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Literature and Philosophical Themes

education is still substantially elevated in contemporary culture. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees virtue as choice and so mora...

Justice Argument of Socrates

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

Meaning and Philosophy

constructed and the meaning made perfectly clear so that all understand what types of behavior will be tolerated and which will no...

Global Significance and Meaning of Culture

Within the fundamental framework of civilization reside a number of issues that serve to impede inter-cultural communication. Con...

Philosophy Questions and Religion

for example, would exist even if there were no human beings there to see it, but not that colour was an independent spiritual form...

Good Political Leadership and the Differing Views of Aristotle and Plato

as the original Greek legal process aspired to achieve such status, it can readily be said that its integrity has been severely co...

Republic by Plato and Women's Role

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...

Death's Significance and Meaning in Celtic Fairytales

what fairy tales are, in relationship to other types of stories. In doing this we focus on the work of Marie-Louis Von Franz, a ve...

Paleolithic Art Purposes and Meanings

the activities that took place there were not everyday activities - probably ritual activities" (Petersen, 2001; paleo.htm). Be...

Socratic Philosophy and Plato

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, ...

Noted Thinkers on the Afterlife

how the individual, the personality, that is a human being is likely never to experience an afterlife. In this we see that Flew do...

Business Psychology and its Meaning

use as a tool to manipulate employees to gain higher work levels and commitment, however, it may also be argued that in recognisin...

Love According to Socrates in Symposium by Plato

that love is beautiful and love is a god by showing them the true nature of love and the use love can be to humankind....

Is There a Distinction Between the Soul and the Body?

a body" (Aristotle), Plato illustrates his inability to see beyond mankinds mortal connection, opting instead to focus upon a deci...

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt and its Meaning

working for them--and returns to the homeland: Limerick, Ireland (1774). They live there between 1934 and 1948 but Malachy still ...

Position Argument Structuring

Ulman, 2005, PG). In order to construct a successful argument for a particular position, therefore, one has to first amass th...

Religion and its Meaning

that such an individual needs more church. Of course, the person who only is inclined to go to church on holidays may possess any ...

Politics and Ethics

who will eventually hold office and decide what to pursue in respect to issues like abortion, stem cell research and capital punis...

Morality and Whether Or Not It Can Exist Without God

God wills at any particular moment." To this proposition, Nielsen poses three questions: 1. Is being willed by God the, or even a,...

Inductive and Metaphysical Skepticism and Meeting Their Challenges

and balances helps to equalize what man truly knows and that which he thinks he knows - the very foundation for identifying weakne...

Aristotle and Plato on the Soul

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...

Free Will, Concentration Camps, and Victor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning

even immoral to those of us who have never experienced the horrors of the concentration camp. A few pages later, Frankl tells abou...

Women's Equality and Plato

In three pages gender concepts are discussed in this consideration of how Plato regarded equality for women. Two sources are cite...

The Matrix and Meaning

and rejected, as older paradigms seem to fit closer with an individuals concept of reality. On the other hand, sometimes exploring...

Meaning of 'Social Accents'

was used by the first editor of the English Pronouncing Dictionary and the model of pronunciation that he preferred (Tench 107). T...

Preemptive War and Moral Considerations

This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...

Spiritual Journey and Spiritual Growth

to return to the cave because its familiar and comfortable? The answer to all these questions is "yes." (Allegory of the Cave, 2...

What Writing Means to an Individual

difficult or confusing, perhaps largely because of how writing is taught and how structuring sentences can become almost scientifi...

What It Means to Be a Teacher

educational policy, such as high stakes testing, which places more emphasis on meeting a preset criterion than on a teachers profe...

Knowledge and Whether or Not Anything Can be Truly Known

only thing that is known is what is presently occurring. In other words, if something is out of ones eyesight and experience, it i...